Online bill management system Pageonce has released an application that lets users pay and manage all of their bills from one location.

NEW YORK – Companies need to think about how mobile payments can help merchants and consumers instead of focusing solely on mobile payments as a revenue driver, according to an executive at Mobile Marketer’s Mobile Marketing Summit: Holiday Focus 2011.

European mobile payments company Fortumo is partnering with Payfone to expand its payment options in Western Europe and North America.

MPayy has enabled pre-paid debit card usage on its network, letting consumers load funds to, and payments from, their pre-paid debit cards.

TazTag has partnered with Inside Contactless and Sagem Orga to develop a new method of delivering contactless payment transactions via NFC.

Philippine wireless carrier Globe Telecom is partnering with mobile payments specialist Boku to expand acceptance of the Globe GCash service internationally.

Mopay Inc., a provider of mobile payment services, has expanded into the United States, helping North American gaming and social networking providers to open a new revenue channel.

In another sign of mobile payments taking off, Mobile First Inc. has announced its new payment processing services for developers and providers of online games, social networking applications and virtual currency platforms.

The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies has launched an iPhone application and a mobile Web site that let consumers pay for their insurance via their handsets.

Blaze Mobile, a mobile banking application, said its consumers access the Blaze Mobile Wallet an average of nine times each day.