Mobey Forum has announced it has completed an extensive evaluation on the future development of the mobile financial services business ecosystem (PDF).

SVPCO-Electronic Clearing Services has announced that the average number of daily items in March grew 24.2% to an all-time high of 1.2 million. For the first quarter of 2006, the total number of daily image items was 62.5 million, compared to 52 million for all of 2005.

PayPal's announcement on the launch of PayPal Mobile has been released.

PayPal has updated it's Text to Buy offer page this morning with twenty-two examples of items that can be easily purchased using PayPal Mobile's new Text to Buy feature. Included are goods from merchants including shirts, DVD's, watches, tools as well as items from charitable organizations such as Unicef, Amnesty International, Starlight Starbright, and more.

Multichannel News reports this morning that Bravo has entered into an arrangement with PayPal to enable viewers of its "Top Chef" series to purchase products through PayPal Mobile - presumably using PayPal's new Text to Buy feature. Reuters Eric Auchard reports that PayPal has also signed up News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Viacom's MTV, and the NBA Store for its Text to Buy service.

Larry Ponemon reports for CSO Magazine on the results of a survey of password usage that confirms user frustrations with being required to remember multiple passwords for multiple systems.

• Reuters: MTV, NBA store in new PayPal mobile text deal