To make an m-wallet succeed, says researcher Sheikh Taher Abu of the University of Hyogo, Japan, writing in the journal Telematics and Informatics, the commuter is the person to please. He found that m-wallets are particularly popular for travel related purchasing. “Commuters place a great deal of value on products that enable them to reduce their commuting time. Wallet phones enable them to do so by completely bypassing the ticket machine and by accelerating the purchase of foods, drinks, snacks, and newspapers in kiosks or convenience stores.” (via One Per Cent: Commuters will be the bellwether for Google Wallet)
ing is doing what no one used to think was possible: knocking search market share points off of Google, and collecting them. Yes, Bing-powered search in the United States just broke the 30% barrier, clocking in at 30.01% in March according to Hitwise. That was a rise from its February tally of 28.48%. Google in the same time period dropped from 66.69% to 64.42%, ceding that ground to Bing.