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Amazon.com Ups mCommerce with TextBuyIt (the mobile experience)

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:32:00 GMT

Amazon.com has been on the frontier of "m-commerce"; taking a strong position and making its online retail presence available to handsets/smartphones across the board. They've just upped the ante with a new service, known as TextBuyIt . As the program's name implies, you can now text or SMS an ISBN number of a product to "AMAZON" (262966) and expect to receive the price and some options to transact....

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TextBuyIt Shopping (Seeds of Growth)

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:00:32 GMT

TrendHunter: Shopaholics rejoice! Let us do the dance of joy! On Tuesday Amazon launched TextBuyIt, letting people text the name of a product, description, UPC or ISBN to the numbers “262966” (which is Amazon on the keypad), so we can buy from our cell phones, including from inside stores. The service returns two results at a time, where you can buy one of the first two selections by texting...

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TextBuyIt Shopping (CoolBusinessIdeas.com)

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:00:40 GMT

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MX are powering Amazon’s TextBuyIt service (SMS Text News)

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:20:29 GMT

Kudos to the MX Telecom team this afternoon. They’re finally able to announce that they’re providing the text message gateway services for Amazon.com’s TextBuyIt service. If you haven’t come across the service, I documented it recently here. Quick overview? Here we go: Amazon TextBuyIt lets U.S. customers text the name of a [...]

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Amazon TextBuyIt Available (Gear Live)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:07:42 GMT

Amazon has a new service that allows shopping via cell phone, just in case you are having a shopping fix moment and can’t wait to get home or the nearest mall. TextBuyIt is fairly simple. Type in a keyword to 262966 (AMAZON) and they will send you a list of matches. Choose and select the appropriate number. Get more search results by using “m” for a total of 8 selections, “xd” for details, “h” for...

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TextBuyIt: Shop on Amazon With Text Messaging (Unwired View)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:45:27 GMT

Text messaging is already one of the most popular applications in the mobile world today, and now Amazon is using it to bring consumers into a whole other world. Just last Tuesday Amazon launched their TextBuyIt service, which allows customers to make purchases via text message. Many people were reluctant about this announcement at first, some even [...]

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Buy by cellphone (26econ.com)

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:31:47 GMT

Via Joe Wikert’s blog I learned about Amazon’s new TextBuyIt service. Basically, in the US, you can buy stuff from Amazon by sending them a text message from your phone. They search for what you texted and send you back results, then you send another text to choose which item to buy, and finally Amazon [...]

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Amazon TextBuyIt brings mobile shopping to any mobile phone (Ring Nokia)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:12:54 GMT

Recently launched Amazon TextBuyIt is set to bring mobile shopping to all mobile phone users in the U.S. No fancy smartphone is required. All you have to do is send a text message with name of the product, description, UPC or ISBN to "AMAZON" (262966), and in case there is such products in Amazon's database [...]

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Amazon Launches Text-Message Shopping (Business Opportunities Weblog)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:07:25 GMT

Associated Press: Amazon.com Inc.’s brick-and-mortar competitors have yet another reason to fear the Web: a new service that lets shoppers compare prices and buy things with a few quick taps on their cell phones. Amazon TextBuyIt lets people text the name of a product, its description or its UPC or ISBN to 262966 (that’s “Amazon” on the [...]

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TextBuyIt - Let your thumbs do the buying at Amazon (:: Articles :: Gizmos for Geeks)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:57:55 GMT

Amazon.com launched a new service that lets you search for, and buy products that they sell … using text messaging. It’s called TextBuyIt. Oh yes, I can see it now… drunk text shopping. Bookmark/e-Mail

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Amazon introduces shopping by SMS (E-consultancy News Blog)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:45:00 GMT

Amazon this week introduced a new service in the US that lets customers buy products from the site by text message. With the new system, dubbed ' TextBuyIt' , mobile users can text a product name, search term or ISBN number to Amazon, and will get the top two results from the search sent back to them.

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The final nail in the coffin for Borders stores? (Mighty Bargain Hunter)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:19:45 GMT

Borders Books and Music is starting to close up shop where we are. It made an announcement two weeks ago that it could put itself up for sale and has lined up financing to continue operations. Tuesday, Amazon.com announced TextBuyIt, a text-messaging service that gives pricing information for books, DVDs, and CDs off of Amazon.com, [...]

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Amazon’s TextBuyIt: Shopping for books and other items on your mobile phone with text messaging (TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:06:33 GMT

Ironic, isn’t it? Amazon’s bestseller pricing favors Kindle books over those at the Mobipocket Store in the Mobi format—which can run on certain mobile phones and a variety of other devices. But meanwhile Jeff Bezos and company are laudably recognizing the importance of mobile phones with a new, cellphone-based service to let you order books and [...]

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Amazon Intros TextBuyIt, For Mobile Comparison Shopping (Switched)

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:54:00 GMT

Filed under: Cell Phones We'll admit it. We've been chased out of a big box retailer or two for taking pictures of products and writing notes on prices. It seems comparison shopping isn't something these stores want their customers to be doing. But in comes Amazon.com to the rescue . The giant online retailer announced a new service called TextBuyIt for a little comparison shopping and...

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Shop online via SMS with Amazon’s TextBuyIt (Gadgetell)

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:29:48 GMT

Section: Communications , Mobile , Web , Websites I always check online store prices before heading out to a local retail store to buy that shiny new gadget I’ve been eyeing. Sometimes, things are just cheaper online. Thankfully, Amazon is making my shopping a little easier with its new text-messaging shopping service, called TextBuyIt. The new mobile service enables consumers to shop...

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Amazon TextBuyIt (PersonaNonData)

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:20:00 GMT

Everyone walks into a store with a mobile phone and virtually every product in a store has some type of barcode identifier. Marrying the these two apparently unrelated technical solutions could actually produce significant value to consumers. A few companies have attempted to produce a barcode reader software on a mobile here and here. In the book world a number of booksellers using Amazon services...

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Amazon launches TextBuyIt (Coolest Gadgets)

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT

A cell phone is but a communications device at heart, capable of doing a little bit extra such as surfing the Internet, running IM programs, checking your mail, capturing your favorite memories in a digital photo and playing video and audio files when you’re bored, right? Well props to online shopping pioneer Amazon.com who clearly aims to pile on the pressure (and potentially, misery) upon...

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Amazon Via Text Message: Neat Trick, And That's About It (AMZN) (Silicon Alley Insider)

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:46:00 GMT

We gave Amazon's (AMZN) new "TextBuyIt" shop-via-text message service a whirl. It worked! Cool trick? Absolutely. Would we use it to buy stuff again? Probably not. How does it work? First, we visited Amazon's site using our computer to set up our mobile profile, some security settings, and the default shipping and billing info we'd like to use for text-message shopping. Amazon...

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Buying books via text — a most bizarre idea (serialdeviant.org(y))

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:56:57 GMT

I didn’t realise hearing about or deciding you want a book is such an unbearable feeling that one must buy it immediately — via text. Amazon Lets Readers Shop via Text Message: Once a customer has set up their Amazon account to accept TextBuyIt purchases, the process is relatively quick and easy. And for customers who [...]

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Latest Tech News - 2 April (Coolest Gadgets)

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:33:58 GMT

Amazon unveils shopping via SMS The big e-commerce company of the US, also known as Amazon, has recently presented a new service that offers a new way to shop around the huge store. The service is related to text-messages, and its codename is TextBuyIt. As you can imagine by now, we’re talking about cellphones and sending SMS to the Amazon service. The procedure to get...

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