Voting by Mobile Devices Could Be Available in United States by 2012, VeriSign Says

Among its five top predictions, VeriSign expects:

-- Mobile government will become more popular as citizens seek real-time
access to their elected officials.
-- More financial institutions will offer mobile banking and payments as
a value-added service to customers.
-- Donations using mobile devices will grow in popularity, eventually
overtaking online donations.

"Barack Obama's presidential campaign last year demonstrated the popularity and potential for the type of personalized information and services people have come to value and expect these days," said Charles Landry, vice president and general manager, products and innovation, for VeriSign's Messaging and Mobile Media division. "With other mobile applications such as banking and donations picking up steam, SMS is becoming the pervasive communications medium of the 21st century, which necessitates all the various players in the channel to work together to deliver reliability and security to the network that delivers these applications."