Posts from March 14, 2008

Diane Clarkson | March 14, 2008, 02:21 PM
AA.com goes mobile
AAdvantage members have received an email from American Airlines offering a first glimpse of new tools available through Aacom via mobile devices. You can log on to AACom from your cell hone and check in for flights, view your itinerary, change flights, book flights, buy upgrades and other features. We’re...( more )

Zia Daniell Wigder | March 14, 2008, 11:56 AM
Courting young, Chinese urban professionals
An interesting article came out in the March issue of STORES magazine on Chinese consumers’ purchase of US goods online. The article focuses on Alipay, a PayPal-like provider that boasts 56 million users in China (some one-quarter to one-third of the total online population). Alipay’s services enable its users to...( more )

Mark Mulligan | March 14, 2008, 10:21 AM
Napster Available on O2
Napster is coming to O2 (the UK mobile operator) but in a slightly counter intuitive way. Instead of O2 customers having the opportunity to have the full fledged subscription service on their mobile they instead get to search, preview and buy (a la carte) from the Napster catalogue on their...( more )

Thomas Husson | March 14, 2008, 06:33 AM
Napster Mobile
As my colleague Mark Mulligan just analyzed, 02 UK and Napster have announced today a partnership to launch a mobile music service. Single tracks will initially be priced at 99p (for a promotional period) or you can benefit from 5 tracks for £4. O2 UK is not the first operator...( more )