Mobile security firms are starting to ramp up their app development to hopefully put mobile users’ minds at ease, knowing that they are safe from attacks. McAfee recently acquired WaveSecure, where users can back up photos, videos, contacts, and even track their iPhone’s location remotely. Using the WaveSecure portal and ecommerce solution, users are able to retrieve their data even if their phone is stolen, or if they switch mobile operating systems.

A lot of people have sensitive information on their phone – especially corporate executives and other higher-ups. The cost of losing that data can be catastrophic, which is why it has to be constantly backed up. If the information is compromised by the wrong individuals it could also be incredibly bad. That is why having a way to delete sensitive information in case the phone is lost or stolen can be so useful.

A big problem that people have with these precautionary systems that can wipe, lock, or make sounds when your phone is stolen is the fact that the thief only needs to turn it off and remove the SIM card to prevent you from using the security features. Mobile developers need to figure out a way to keep the phone turned on at all times (when security is threatened), and somehow (who knows if it’s possible) lock the SIM card in its place. This would prevent the thief from gaining access to the phone, as well as selling it to make some illegal dough.

Consumers consider security a huge aspect of everything mobile. Ecommerce solutions have put security at the top of their lists and it’s looking like services are opening up for third party mobile security as well. This is a small step from McAfee into what looks like a huge new market. We will most likely see a heap of new companies entering mobile security with lots of new features.

The Android-powered phone is supposedly going to be a cheap and powerful phone for entry-level smartphone users:

“The Samsung Admire is a perfect choice for first-time smartphone users or for budget-minded students looking for an advanced phone with all the features, apps, entertainment and organizational tools they need to excel.”

With the unit being paired with the budget-minded phone service that MetroPCS has to offer, this could be a very affordable phone for the budget-minded shopper (student or not) to throw in their shopping cart. MertoPCS offers plans as low as $40 a month which includes unlimited talk, text, and web access! Things just keep getting better and better in the world of phones.

The Samsung Admire will boast a 3.5 inch screen and a 3.2 megapixel camera. This phone is not intended to be a competitor with the Samsung Galaxy S II nor the iPhone 5 (if either of them are ever released!). MetroPCS hopes that this phone will tap into a market that has not really been accessed by smartphones before.

Not everyone needs a processor with 68 cores, a 24 megapixel camera, 4TB of memory, and a 0-60 speed of 1.6 seconds on their phone. The Samsung Admire hopes to tap this new market with simple features that has the one thing everyone wants – the application marketplace.

This phone is going to be able to handle applications with ease and will likely be a light, fun device for taking pictures, playing Angry Birds, checking stocks, and listening to Pandora on. Throw this smartphone in your shopping cart if you’re on a budget to get a new phone.

The study also found that 7%, or 2.3 million, of mobile phone shoppers actually have purchased something using their mobile phone. This means that they actually went onto an ecommerce solution such as Amazon.com, logged into their account, and paid – all via their mobile phone.

Experian Simmons delved even further into the study to see what kind of products and services people were looking for. Of the 24,722 men and women that they surveyed, it was discovered that 23% were looking for tickets to movies and events (Fandango app anyone?). 16% were investigating travel services and 15% were looking for games and toys.

The research did not include tablet use which was very interesting. Sure, tablets definitely are not as widely used as mobile phones, but they’re still mobile. Most of what people do on tablets is search the web and research products and services. It would be interesting to see the percentage of tablet owners that have purchased something from an ecommerce solution on their device.

Mobile commerce is becoming a huge market for ecommerce solutions to try and tap into. A mobile or tablet friendly web interface is key if you want to have a decent mobile user conversion rate. Ecommerce solutions aren’t alone in this race however. With Google Wallet, Serve, and many others joining the race for the top mobile payment system, brick and mortar locations are also going to have to adapt.  Whether that means using smartphones to ring people up (Serve), or having an NFC (Near Field Communication) receiver at the checkout station.

It will require some investment for in-store locations to facilitate NFC transaction, but could have a big return. If you’re an early adopter of Square your store could be known to some as “the” cool place. Many people love going to a place that is technologically savvy – one that lets them use their $300 smartphone to the fullest. We’re in the middle of a mobile boom (imagine Nokia in 2000) and things are only going to get more exciting.

The spending in the first quarter of 2011 was about $1 billion more than the most recent second quarter. This isn’t much of a surprise because it’s been that way in the past years. Another interesting statistic that comScore came up with was that the top 25 ecommerce solution accounted for 66.4% of purchases. Last year the top 25 accounted for 67.7%. This is most likely due to all the new online shopping carts and in-game mobile commerce.

As one can imagine those top 25 online shopping carts consist of Amazon, Best Buy, and those other humongous stores. There are so many great start-ups launching everyday that it’s hard to see that 66.4% go up. Consumers now have an incredible amount of options when choosing where they want to buy an item, and sometimes the creative and small start ups are more appealing.

comScore chairman Gian Fulgoni says that for every $10 spent in discretionary spending, $1 is spent online. This is not a big surprise because online stores don’t have as much overhead as your standard brick and mortar location. This makes it easier for the ecommerce solution to drop prices and still have a decent margin.

Since the number of users doing their shopping online increased a whopping 16%, we actually experienced a drop in purchases per person by 2%.

The survey doesn’t include travel, and with the government making $30 million in taxes every day from flights alone it’s hard to fathom the amount spent on actual tickets and hotel rooms. If only the FAA wasn’t collecting taxes anymore and we could get those tickets even cheaper.

This will make it easier for your business to allow M2M (machine to machine) connectivity through the cloud:

“We believe a global ecommerce solution plays a key role in establishing ourselves as a leader in machine-to-machine (M2M) and cloud-based connectivity solutions, and is critical to our ability to scale the company while still providing superior customer service,” said Mark Tullio, Senior Director of Marketing at Lantronix. “We are thrilled to kick off our new fiscal year by expanding our commercial footprint with ecommerce in an effort to continuously improve customer loyalty and satisfaction.”

This new ecommerce solutions comes in the wake of Apple, Google, and Amazon all luanching their cloud services.  Since we’re doing away with floppy disks, CD’s, and even those amazingly tiny USB thumb drives, something has to replace them.  The cloud is something that will change computing forever.

Lantronix focuses on business uses that require large data sets and remote access to company machines from anywhere in the world.  Amazon, Google, and Apple do the same thing except on a smaller scale for us consumers.

One thing that will be amazing with the whole cloud computing idea is being taken on by the gaming company, OnLive.  What OnLive is trying to do is bring graphic and processor intensive games to your television set for a fee payable on their ecommerce solution (of course).  They will have all of the off-site power to stream the game to your television.  This enables you to play games you might not have the machine for.

The same thing can be done for just about any project, product, or application that needs excessive computing power, and it’s all done through the cloud.  The day when all computing hardware needs are satisfied via the cloud is likely coming soon, so be ready for it.  Lantronix, Google, Apple, Amazon, and many other companies have completed the first step of putting all data in the cloud.

The government is losing an estimated $30 million a day because the FAA’s authority to collect taxes has expired. The country has allowed 20 short-term extensions, but now they can’t do that anymore and have to come up with an agreement. What does this mean for you, and the airlines?  Libertarians rejoice!

When you log on to your favorite ecommerce solution for buying airline tickets you don’t have to pay taxes! That means that $300 ticket is going to fall close to $200. You could see airlines raising prices while this is in effect to earn some extra cheese, just because they can. Hopefully we won’t see too much of that.

Since most people don’t know about this, what’s forcing an airline to stop collecting “taxes” just to pocket them? This is where Delta comes in. In what some might describe as “a savvy business move” and others might describe as “stealing,” the airline has been collecting “taxes” this whole time and pocketing the money.

How about a round of applause for the Internal Revenue Service (probably for the first time in your life). The scolding that Delta has received from the IRS has prompted them to return those hefty taxes you paid on various travel ecommerce solutions to the customers.

But don’t start buying tickets for your 2036 travel plans just yet.  There is no policy in place yet for trips scheduled for after the time in which the FAA is fully reinstated. No one knows what the FAA and IRS will do.  The IRS website had this to say:

“The legislation could either impose tax on all travel occurring after its enactment or provide an exemption for passengers who purchased tickets during the period when the tax was not in effect.”

So Mr. IRS man, who’s going to win the ball game tonight?  “Well, the Red Sox could win, or they could lose.” Don’t count on your tickets being tax-free for your flights that depart after this whole FAA debacle is figured out. For now, head to your travel ecommerce solution of choice and grab a round trip ticket while you can – you’ll save some money!

The mobile phone service provider has said that it plans to introduce Serve to its smartphones and tablets in the coming months. Finally mobile payments are getting introduced so we can actually use them! One problem though, I don’t have an American Express card – do you? Thankfully it doesn’t matter!

In order to take advantage of Serve, which uses your phone number to send payments to you, you need to pre-load money onto your account, with is then managed by American Express. This new mobile ecommerce solution payment system sadly makes the user go through two extra steps, something that Google Wallet will not require. Your money is not connected to your existing bank accounts. Instead, the money needs to be transferred to the system, and then withdrawn (if you want some cash or interest).

Verizon plans to make this part of their software they pre-load on phones, more commonly known as “Verizon Bloat-ware.” Mobile payments are going to be a huge player in the future of ecommerce solutions, especially mobile ones, and will hopefully help do away with physical credit/debit cards.

Think of the transition that payments have had in the past years. We started off using cash for pretty much everything. Then checks came along with an MICR (magnetic ink) strip that added security and subtracted cash. After that, credit cards! Those amazing plastic devices with that cool magnetic strip you have to keep magnets away from (weird huh?). Everyone could spend money they didn’t have! Companies are now aiming to take the wallet out of the equation and use the smartphone.

All of these services should be launching by the of the year and it’s going to be a battle of mass proportions to see who wins out. Google, AmEx, Ericsson, and PayPal are only a few of the competitors looking for the biggest market share.

The problem occurred when those investors saw their money triple and decided to sell off (I mean, who wouldn’t?). The stock took a dip to around $33, but is now still floating at almost $40 a share. This kind of quick timing with these tech IPOs has made some investors a lot of money. The dangers of chasing that hot tech IPO occur routinely because of ridiculously sharp drops (usually around mid-day) that are the result of “shorting.” Sales from people who got in first and are offloading their stock after their money is made exacerbate these problems.

Zillow makes money through online advertising, not from external companies, but through the users on the site – specifically real estate agents. The user can see just about any aspect of a house on the website. Plus, if the real estate company decides to go through the ecommerce solution to “sponsor” their house, you might see it first. The site makes finding the right mortgage easy, and seeing the specs and valuation of a specific house.

Zillow was the first of its kind when it launched in 2005. You could check to see how much your neighbor’s was worth (and Arnold Schwarzenager’s too!). The company is one of the smaller tech companies that has filed for an IPO. This could open the doors for smaller gaming companies like 6waves Lolapps to go public like Zynga has decided to do. The videogame companies like these that feature many product with in-game ecommerce solutions have been seeing huge growth, and more funding could be necessary.

The Zillow IPO comes in the midst of some of the hottest tech IPOs we’ve ever seen. Linkedin started trading under the symbol LNKD a littler over a month ago.  The social network for career searching is currently trading at around $100 per share.  That puts the company at over a $9 billion valuation.  The company opened at $42 with a close to $4.5 billion valuation, yet it only had $15.4 million in revenue last year (don’t get that needle too close to the bubble!). Caution and research are key when deciding to throw these hot IPO shares into your shopping cart.

With so much news coming out that Spotify is finally coming to the US you might be wondering: why don’t I just use Rdio or Spotify? Audiosocket is nothing like the two. Spotify and Rdio have a humongous library of songs – well over the 33,000 that Audiosocket has.

Think of Audiosocket as a music ecommerce solution for movie makers. When you’re making a movie a lot of producers have to get copyrighted music for a fee from the record label. This equates to a lot of emails, reading, and paperwork and of course – money!  With Audiosocket, anyone who needs to license music so that they can use it commercially can do it easily through their ecommerce solution. This cuts out the nasty paperwork and negotiation times so you can get back to your project.

Still don’t understand it?  Just know that if you’re looking for music that you can personally listen to, Audiosocket is not for you. Rdio or Sportify is exactly what you want.

Another cool thing that Audiosocket makes even easier is getting money to the creators of the music, the artists. Music producers of all kinds can have their music featured on the Audiosocket API and be paid for their work every time someone uses their songs. Getting money for streaming and digital record sales has been increasingly harder for artists. Now there is a new revenue opportunity for them.

If you’re looking to develop a movie, game, or website that integrates music that is required to be licensed, it’s looking to be easier than ever. Finally, there is no more going through contract after contract trying to get a license to use a song. Don’t worry if you’re just a normal person who likes to listen to music, because Spotify and Rdio are there for you.