Computerworld - Mobile payment technologies are finally vaulting forward in the U.S. after years of slow advances. The biggest move ahead could occur in September, when Apple is widely expected to embrace a mobile payment scheme with its ...
Tags: Mobile payment technologies, mobile payment network, Apple, mobile
Computerworld - Samsung's battle with Apple has gone to the courts, and now to the streets. A new attack ad by Samsung pokes fun at Apple customers who wait in line outside stores for the iPhone 5. A new attack ad from Samsung pokes fun ...
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Half of UK Visa payments will be made through mobile devices by 2020 as mobile infrastructures pave the way for mass adoption of mobile wallets. According to Visa Europe, 2013 will see the acceleration of the use of mobile payments ...
Tags: UK, Visa, mobile, payments, mobile wallets
More that a dozen retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and 7-Eleven have joined forces to form the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a mobile-payments network that will compete with Google and Isis. The retailers claim that they ...
Tags: Walmart, Target, MCX, mobile payments network
Verizon Wireless Thursday announced that it will start upgrading Samsung Galaxy S III smartphones on its network to the Android 4.1 operating system tomorrow. Samsung had unveiled the upgrade of the smartphone to the so-called Jelly Bean ...
Tags: Verizon, Galaxy S III, Jelly Bean, smartphones, Android 4.1
Broadcom Tuesday unveiled a single chip that combines Near Field Communication technology with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and FM radio. The company expects that the new chip will boost the use of NFC in smartphones and other mobile devices. NFC ...
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Mobile payment systems in the U.S. have been long on promise and short on reality. The launch Monday of the Isis system in Salt Lake City and Austin will promote the adoption of mobile payments among users of nine smartphones that support ...
Tags: mobile payment systems, U.S., Isis system, smartphones, NFC
The European Union (EU) today agreed to allow the UK’s top operators to work together on mobile payment solutions. Vodafone, O2 and Everything Everywhere announced the plan to create a joint venture in March this year, hoping to ...
The Isis joint venture of three wireless carriers announced the launch today of its new mobile wallet system in Salt Lake City and Austin using nine NFC-ready and Isis-ready smartphones sold by the carriers. Consumers interested in using ...
Tags: Isis joint venture, wireless carriers, mobile wallet system, smartphones
The global near-field communications (NFC) retail payments market will reach $180bn (£116bn) by 2017, with one in four shoppers paying in store using the technology, according to a report from Juniper Research. North America, ...
Tags: NFC, smartphone, mobile network operators, mobile handsets
Microsoft has unveiled its Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system, but disappointed its current customers by confirming they won't get the update. Instead, users of Windows Phone 7.5 – codenamed Mango – will only be upgraded ...
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Computerworld - ISIS, a consortium of three wireless carriers, is reportedly set to launch its mobile payment pilot test on Aug. 20 in Austin and Salt Lake City. Separately, ISIS competitor Google on Wednesday announced a cloud-based ...
Tags: ISIS, wireless carriers, mobile payment pilot, Google Wallet
A panel of mobile wallet experts predicted a slow pathway to user adoption of technologies such as Near-Field Communication in the U.S. In fact, widespread adoption will take as long as eight years "at best," Dekkers Davidson, the head of ...
Tags: U.S., MobileCon, mobile IT, mobile payments
More than two-thirds of smartphone owners have not yet adopted mobile banking apps because of security concerns, a survey has revealed. By contrast, only 14% of those surveyed by security firm Metaforic said that security concerns were ...
Apple apparently made the right decision to omit NFC from the iPhone 5, given that 68% of U.S. consumers prefer to buy goods using cash and credit cards over mobile wallets, according to a recent consumer survey. "Consumers aren't ready ...
Tags: NFC, Apple, iPhone 5, U.S.consumers, mobile wallets