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CM expands with Payment Service Provider (PSP) CM Payments

Mobile service provider CM Telecom has founded CM Payments, a new Payment Service Provider (PSP) that will operate internationally. CM Payments opens its office in Amsterdam.

SoundCloud: the Golden Minute, Engagement & Monetisation

The Golden Minute. The first 60 seconds to get to the point at which mobile app or website users have a great experience and go along. If the Golden Minute is right, your app drives engagement, which leads to monetisation. And that’s what you’re there for, right?

How your phone number became your mobile identity

Your mobile phone number is becoming your digital identity. And that’s a good thing. Almost no one ever changes his number anymore and authentication is easy and cheap, both for the phone number owner as companies who are verifying numbers.

Mark Fidelman: The success behind viral marketing campaigns

Jun 19, 2015 • SMS Campaigns

Don’t we all like to see our mobile marketing campaigns go viral and boost our revenue’s? Sure, but that only happens rarely. What is the philosophy that underlies the success of a mobile marketing campaign?

Snapchat enables two-factor authentication (2FA) through sms

Jun 15, 2015 • One Time Passwords

Mobile image sharer and chat app Snapchat has deployed two-factor authentication. Snapchat experienced a major data breach in 2013.

Swipe & Shop wins start-up pitches at Mobile Convention Amsterdam

Nikkie Hofland’s Swipe & Shop, the so-called Tinder for fashion, came out as a winner of the Mobile Convention Amsterdam Start-up program.

The Pharmacy of the Future

May 26, 2015 • Innovation

One of the pharmacies of the future is situated in the province of Limburg, in the Netherlands: Heythuysen Pharmacie. Michael Boon automated his pharmacy with a storage and dispensing system for pharmaceutical packaging, the Servisoft Track & Trace system with a messaging service for clients and a ServiLocker. "Sending text messages and e-mails has brought peace and harmony back into in this pharmacy."

A brief history of P2P and A2P sms text messaging

May 24, 2015 • Messaging

Texting today is indispensable and widely adopted. The technology behind large chat apps is based on the original SMS (Short Message Service) text message, which has recently celebrated its 22nd birthday. In this article, we go over the history of SMS, from the 160 characters conceptualisation to how SMS is used currently and where we think the future of SMS is headed.

News television program Nieuwsuur chooses CM for WhatsApp communication

May 18, 2015 • Messaging Channels

The leading Dutch news television program Nieuwsuur introduces a WhatsApp channel through which it informs people about the program content. CM provides the technology to send mobile messages using WhatsApp.

Technology has limitless possibilities, but put people first

Apr 17, 2015 • Innovation

Technology shouldn’t be prioritised over user experience and engagement, privacy and trust. For technology and gadgets to be successful, developers need to consider their UX and find a way to win trust from their users.

Protect your companies gold with two-factor authentication

Apr 7, 2015 • Two-factor Authentication

Knowledge is power. A company’s knowledge could/should be considered the gold a company owns. Protecting that gold is essential. But: how?

New mobile frontiers: Out of our pockets and into the wild

Apr 2, 2015 • SMS Campaigns

Robot toasters, connected refrigerators, coffee maker temperature sensors telling your mobile it’s time for coffee. Our lives become more connected by the day; especially the kitchen is a true technology hotspot.

Introducing one mobile platform for cloud communications

Sms is not the only way to send a short message or a large batch of messages quickly from A to B. Other forms of mobile messaging have arisen at the time of the launch of the smartphone somewhere in 2006.

The New Mobile Identity: more security, more privacy

Mar 5, 2015 • Platform Features

Safer, more secure and with more convenience. The mobile identity has been lacking efficiency, was too complicated for developers and missed engagement opportunities. Until now.

Connecting the next billion people. For free

Internet companies are connecting the next billion people. Logically they start in countries with fewer or no mobile data connections. Wikipedia launched Zero, Facebook started internet.org. Their main goal: knowledge and convincing people the internet adds value to life.

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