The world’s largest mobile commerce platform company has a bird’s-eye view of how brands, retailers and consumers are turning to smartphones and tablets for fulfilling searching, shopping and buying activity. Does Usablenet see a tipping point for mobile commerce on the horizon?

Teen fashion retailer Pacific Sunwear of California Inc., better known as PacSun, has further bolstered its mobile credentials with the introduction of an iPhone application geared to handle everything from searching, shopping and buying.

Sprint is letting customers pay their bills and complete transactions via a recent feature added to its mobile site.

Neiman Marcus is letting affluent consumers shop its full merchandise assortment via a new mobile-optimized shopping site.

BALTIMORE – Retailers should prominently feature major promotions of the moment on their mobile commerce site’s homepage, per a QVC executive.

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Macy’s Inc. has launched an mcommerce Web site for its Macy’s-brand department store chain and plans to roll out a similar Bloomingdale’s mobile shop next week.

Retailers should be making full use of mobile commerce tools to drive their back-to-school promotions, according to a Sears executive.

Retailer Brookstone is expanding into to the mobile space with its first mobile commerce-enabled Web site.

In anticipation of this weekend’s iPad availability, Usablenet has launched a service for brands that want to extend their reach the Apple device.