Vodafone and Deutsche Bahn announced their project Touch and Travel at CeBIT yesterday. They want to test ticketing with NFC phones starting in three German cities (including Berlin) in October. Vodafone Press Release. The project website is also quite informative.
March 17th, 2007
Joca and guenstiger.de offer a price check for mobile phones. The cooperation was announced end of last year. Spiegel reported recently in this article (german). It seems, you still have to type in product names.
Joca Press release (pdf)
March 13th, 2007
According to this article (german) in yesterday’s Financial Times Deutschland HP, publicis and more or less all relevant mobile phone manufacturers are planning a joint venture to create a mobile advertising market with 2D barcodes. Interestingly, this news only seems to exist in Germany where it was happily copied from FTD by some newspapers.
March 1st, 2007