TeleSign Reputation System Scores Phone Numbers to Authenticate Good and Bad Actors - Mobility TechZone

Date: 11/13/2013

Featured Articles » Mobile Operators in Developing Regions Will Soon Face Developed Market Challenges » Fortune 500 Companies Not Embracing Mobile Fast Enough » Analysis: SMS Revenues Decline by 2018 » Smartphones 'Smarter' Than You? Sponsored By: Mobile Payments Conference The 2014 Mobile Payments Conference will be held January 29-30, 2014 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The event will be collocated with ITEXPO, one of the nation's largest technology-oriented conferences. ITEXPO expects to draw some 7,000 attendees from a variety of sectors, including enterprises, service providers, government, resellers, manufacturers and developers. The ITEXPO exhibit dates are January 29 - 31, 2014. The 2014 Mobile Payments Conference will highlight the many new mobile commerce solutions that continue to enter the market, and will be an invaluable resource for companies that are looking at or are already active in participating in this dynamic space. EMV Training sponsored by ACT Canada will take place at the event on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 in the afternoon. Sponsored by Mobile Marketing & Technology Magazine, Mobile Payments Conference attracts an executive level audience from all parts of the mobile commerce ecosystem. The 2014 conference marks the sixth Mobile Payments Conference that Mobile Marketing & Technology will produce. We are working with the industry's leading experts to present the latest thinking by firms and suppliers about how mobile payments and mobile wallet services now make sense for retailer mobile commerce efforts in a broad sense and how leveraging the transition to mobile payments can benefit the businesses of retailers and payment providers alike. Top Stories » Low Cost Phone from Motorola Amid Disappointing Sales of Moto X » Third Quarter Results Show Android with Over 80 Percent of the Market Share and Huge Jump for Windows Phone Shipments » As Expected, SMB Market for Mobile SaaS Is Exploding » The First Social Network to Join GSMA is Facebook   From The Expert Corner November 13, 2013 TeleSign Reputation System Scores Phone Numbers to Authenticate Good and Bad Actors By Peter Bernstein Senior Editor It might be a little early to be making New Year’s predictions, but it seems safe at this point to proclaim that one of the major online technology issues/challenges of 2014 is going to be all things related to IDENTITY.  This is a broad topic of interest to us as users as well as those who would like to use or abuse access to our personal information.  After all, e-commerce is built on trust.   In an increasingly risky online world, knowing that access to information and authenticating that both sides of an interaction are trustworthy is fundamental to enabling the use of online capabilities for personal as well as commercial interactions and transactions. Interestingly, despite predictions that as many if not most of the things we do for work and play are virtualized and online the use and need for telephone numbers will go the way of the dinosaurs, just the opposite might be the case. Indeed, as part of the process of validating trust, telephone numbers can be an important tool in the authentication process...Read More Featured Videos TMC Newsroom: Carl talks WebRTC Featured Resources » The Rise of Holistic Mobile Engagement » SAP Enterprise Mobility: Bringing a Cohesive Approach to a Complex Market » What is Your Mobile Content Policy? A Checklist for Content Risk Mitigation TMCnet's Blogs » Viable Carrier Wi-Fi Starts with ANDSF Featured Channels » Mobile VoIP » Mobile Device Management » Mobile Security - Mobile Security Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Become a MobilityTechzone columnist! Interested in reaching Mobility Techzone's Global Wireless and Mobile Communications Audience of 70,000 Unique Visitors? Please contact Matthew Gleeson to learn how at mgleeson@tmcnet.com or 1 (203) 852-6800 x145.

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