Fashion chain Oasis has launched a peer-to-peer mobile gift voucher service using SMS at the same time as an app that allows for one click check out when shopping on an iPhone

An upcoming German “Video Shopping Guide” by Exciting Commerce might become standard reading before year’s end. Blogger and expert Stephan Randler gives an nummber of recommendations, analyses and outlooks useful to e-retailers using videos.

Popular UK motoring website Auto Trader is hoping to make car buying easier by allowing car buyers to see a car they like and find similar models for sale nearby with an iPhone app that …

Will long promised NFC-based contactless payments finally start to gain mass appeal? Orange and Barclaycard certainly hope so as they roll out yet another payment solution. Will your local shop invest in the necessary infrastructure to make it work?

Bad news for those of you heading off to the slopes to get away from the trials and tribulations of e- and m-commerce for a few days: SKIDATA has launched an iPhone app that allows …

In an effort to grow awareness of proximity marketing – where retailers can use Bluetooth or other mobile technologies to send offers and inducements to consumers when they near their premises or pass by an …

French car maker Peugeot is to launch a mobile advertising campaign in conjunction with OMDUK, Peugeot’s media agency, that consists of a new expandable format for mobile, composed of three clickable sections promoting the 107, …

US consumers are getting excited about researching retailers and even shopping on mobile, but many are actually being turned off by mobile adverts, a study conducted by electronics retailer Retrevo.com has found.

UK shoe retailer Barratts Shoes is set to roll out what it is calling “a state of the art retail mobility system” – that’s an app to you and me – at its flagship store …

The sending of special offer vouchers to consumer mobile phones as they near certain retailers looks set to overcome its biggest hurdle – spamming people – as Placecast in the US and now MePlease in …

Mobile discounts app vouchercloud has shot straight to number one in the lifestyle section of the iPhone app store following its launch at the beginning of February, with nearly 250,000 consumers downloading vouchercloud – leapfrogging …

Customer convenience is the key driver to retailers adopting mobile, with 64% of those quizzed by analyst Aberdeen Group contending that as a result, mobile is a definite initiative for 2010. More than half of …

Deliverance, the London-based multi-cuisine take-away company, is to use broadcast SMS to keep in touch with its existing customer base.

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