tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2011:/1/tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.16652- 2011-08-16T16:31:18Z Comments for Amazon Announces Mobile Payments Service Movable Type 4.35-en tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.16652 2009-10-05T14:02:04Z 2009-10-05T14:08:08Z Amazon Announces Mobile Payments Service Today, Amazon launched a new service which brings the company's payment processing tools to mobile devices. Called the "Amazon Mobile Payments Service," the technology includes a set of APIs (application programming interfaces) for mobile developers which will allow them to provide payment options to their customers within mobile websites and mobile applications. The new service... Sarah Perez Today, Amazon launched a new service which brings the company's payment processing tools to mobile devices. Called the "Amazon Mobile Payments Service," the technology includes a set of APIs (application programming interfaces) for mobile developers which will allow them to provide payment options to their customers within mobile websites and mobile applications. The new service also allows for integration of Amazon's "1-Click" checkout, the feature that lets customers make purchases using their credit card information stored within their Amazon.com accounts.

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Customers using the new Mobile Payments Service (MPS) will first sign-in using an Amazon MPS-enabled phone or mobile application. After this initial authentication process, they'll then be able to make all future purchases from that device without having to sign in again. This includes the 1-Click checkout functionality. 

As the MPS website shows, it only takes four steps for a mobile shopper to complete their purchase using the new technology. First, the customer clicks on the "Pay with Amazon" button which directs them to a mobile site hosted by Amazon Payments. From there, the customer can pick which payment method they want to use from the options they already have on file with Amazon. After the payment is authorized, the customer is then automatically redirected back to the original mobile website where they can then be offered the download they just purchased.

For Developers: No Extra Work Required

Developers and merchants already using the company's Amazon Payments service on their websites won't need to do any additional development work - the service will automatically detect when customers are shopping from a mobile device and will switch over to the new mobile optimized payment interface.

In other words, that means that developers can continue to use Amazon FPS (flexible payment service) APIs they've already been using to build their applications and they don't need to go back and re-code anything to make the apps mobile-compatible.

One of the first companies to launch the Amazon MPS is Handmark, a mobile content store where customers can shop for games and applications across a number of platforms including Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Palm OS, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Java devices. The company will integrate the technology within its online store and its on-device channels.

Developers interested in integrating this technology into their mobile applications can learn how to do so via the Amazon MPS website. 

]]> tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.16652-comment:301397 Comment from Southwest Equipment on 2011-02-01 Southwest Equipment http://twitter.com/BucketTruckS_W The market for mobile marketing / web is growing rapidly thus, the need for faster and more efficient mobile design is growing. Asia and Europe are the leading demographics in this segment because they use their phone more like a computer (they actually call them mobiles instead of phones). Take for example, http://www.buckettrucksonline...., the site is designed to process smoothly on a pc or mobile.

]]> 2011-02-01T18:15:38Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.16652-comment:295612 Comment from Sandzak on 2011-01-03 Sandzak http://www.sandzakinfo.net Magento said its mobile offering solves three main problems for retailers looking to build an effective mobile-commerce strategy: integration with existing systems; easy portability to multiple mobile platforms; and support for payments.

Magento mobile provides functionality for iPhone starting today, with support for iPad and Android devices coming later this year. More information is available on the

]]> 2011-01-03T18:37:48Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.16652-comment:244162 Comment from Locate Mobile Phones - Shaun on 2010-09-13 Locate Mobile Phones - Shaun http://info@locatemobilephones.org This technology is now over a year old and people are starting to adopt it as mainstream shopping. There is of course integration with the iPhone apps platform which now makes ordering online in this manner just about as easy as looking up your most popular contacts

]]> 2010-09-13T09:41:27Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.16652-comment:162614 Comment from Markus Jakobsson on 2009-10-13 Markus Jakobsson http://blogs.parc.com/blog/2009/10/will-mobile-payments-usher-in-a-new-era-of-crime/ Whereas better usability is very important, especially in the already-constrained mobile world, we may also see unintended consequences in the form of increased security woes.

See http://blogs.parc.com/blog/2009/10/will-mobile-payments-usher-in-a-new-era-of-crime/ for an overview of what might happen.

]]> 2009-10-14T04:07:12Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.16652-comment:161228 Comment from rutherford on 2009-10-05 rutherford http://aleatory.clientsideweb.net/ Support for anyone outside of US comes when?

]]> 2009-10-05T21:09:06Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.16652-comment:161221 Comment from Bucket Truck on 2009-10-05 Bucket Truck http://www.skycoequipment.com/ As Cellphones get newer & better, I'm sure they will be able to store a lot more information such as user name and passwords,so if somebody where to still your cellphone it would be worst than getting your wallet stolen. Scary

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