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Mobile commerce flight booking is WeChat’s next strategy

| April 25, 2014

This new shopping service is being provided by LV.com, bringing Chinese giants together.

WeChat has now announced that it will be broadening its mobile commerce offerings through the addition of a flight booking service that will be made possible through LV.com (which was formerly called 17u.cn).

This will bring WeChat into a partnership with a company in which Tencent currently has a stake.

The payments in this mobile commerce arrangement will, of course, support WeChat Payment. A consumer will be able to not only buy his or her ticket, but will also be able to receive notifications on the flight status, in addition to other related forms of information. All that they need to do is subscribe to an official LV WeChat account.

Currently, this mobile commerce option is available only in two cities, but this is meant to grow.

At the moment, WeChat is making this smartphone service available only in two cities in China: Shenzhen and Guangzhou. This will be only a starting point for the service, but there are plans to expand it outward into other cities, later on. The company has also specified that it will be broadening the service into the other forms of online booking that are available through LV.com.Mobile Commerce - Flight Booking

Until now, there have been a large range of different categories of smartphone shopping based offerings that have been made available through WeChat. They have used the My Brand Cards channel in order to make it possible for consumers to be able to purchase tremendous ranges of different kinds of goods and services.

The company now feels that by adding the new option of being able to book flights fits in very well with its mobile commerce brand as it has established it until now. It will also be incorporating other travel related bookings in the future, which can include making hotel reservations or booking various types of tourism services such as getting tickets for a sightseeing tour. Those are not yet a part of the shopping experience but consumers should be expecting them before too much time has passed, considering the speed at which WeChat is known to expand.

Technology news bursts with excitement with new wireless charging

| April 24, 2014

A new system has now been tested for charging 40 mobile phones from a distance of up to 15 feet.

Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology are now making important technology news with a mobile phone charging system that has already been used for charging equipment at a nuclear power plant.

While wireless chargers are nothing new for the majority of mobile users, this invention adds a new level.

The typical wireless charger isn’t making technology news anymore because they’re found in a large number of homes and businesses in the form of a pad that can charge devices that are resting on top of it. However, the next generation of these gadgets will be able to charge mobile devices from halfway across a good sized room without ever having to rest the smartphones or tablets down or having to plug them in.

The latest technology news that has to do with chargers can power up several gadgets from 15 feet away.

At the moment, this mobile device consists of a coil filled box that is nine feet long and that uses a magnetic field to charge up to 40 rechargeable gadgets, wirelessly, up to a distance of 15 feet away. The team officially launched the system last week, but it was tested out in the real world back in March, when it was used for charging nuclear power plant equipment.Technology News - Wireless Charging

The charger, called the DCRS device, is not the first time that wireless charging over distances has been attempted. A wireless power platform called Cota is sit to hit the commercial market next year and it will be able to charge devices within a distance of 30 feet. However, the difference that the DCRS has to offer is that it has a lot of power to offer, charging up to 40 mobile devices at once, or even powering larger devices such as televisions.

According to the leader of the team, Chun Rim, in a technology news release, “Just like we see Wi-Fi zones everywhere today, we will eventually have many Wi-Power zones at such places as restaurants and streets that provide electric power wirelessly to electronic devices.”