Mobile Payments launched By PayPal      April 28, 2006

Paypal, one of the best payment gateway company introduced PayPal Mobile, a text message-based service allowing consumers in the US and Canada to send money anytime, from anywhere without using a laptop or computer, using there mobile telephones

With PayPal Mobile, users can send money, purchase items or donate to needy people from there mobile devices. Using PayPal Mobile's which is also known as Text to Buy service, consumers can buy things on the spot, such as CDs, DVDs, shoes and apparel, by sending product codes via text message.

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EMS Enhanced Messaging Service      September 21, 2005

Enhanced Messaging Service also known as EMS is an extension of the Short Message Service (SMS). An EMS enabled mobile phone can send and receive messages that have special text formatting (such as bold or italic), animations, pictures, icons, sound effects and special ring tones. As EMS is completely an open standard that can be supported by any manufacturer in the interest of interoperability between consumers. The EMS standard was defined by 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). The same standardization body which is responsible for the success of GSM and standardization of SMS (Short Messaging Service) originated.

EMS is considered as an intermediate technology between SMS and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), with more capabilities than the former (i.e. SMS), but

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