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
Computerworld - ISIS, a consortium of three wireless carriers, said Thursday that it will not launch its Near-Field Communication-based mobile payment service in Salt Lake City or Austin, Texas by the end of the summer as earlier planned. ...
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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
The Home Depot says its rollout of a PayPal in-store payment system to 1,976 U.S. stores in March has generally been a success, though it notes that the system still accounts for a very small percentage of overall transactions. The ...
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Apple didn't include near field communication technology in the iPhone 5, a decision that one NFC backer said the company might come to regret. But several mobile payment experts said Apple probably made a good choice for now, given the ...
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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
A number of games have been steadily rewarding players this week at Royal Vegas UK Online Casino . These games, known within the industry as "hot games" because of the frequency with which they pay out, are a popular gambling strategy used ...
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Starbucks is investing $25 million in mobile payment venture Square, and will allow customers to use a Pay with Square smartphone application to buy coffee at its retail stores starting this fall, the companies announced Wednesday. As ...
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Apple apparently made the right decision to omit NFC from the iPhone 5, given that 68% of U.S. consumers prefer to buy good using cash and credit cards over mobile wallets, according to a recent consumer survey. “Consumers ...
Tags: iphone 5, mobile, NFC, survey, smartphone
Mobile payments with Google Wallet are growing fast, but the road to wide acceptance of NFC in the U.S. will be slow, the head of Google’s payments unit said Friday. The number of NFC (near-field communication) transactions with ...
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Teleflex has received two new three-year group purchasing agreements to provide its endotracheal tubes and related products to Premier healthcare alliance. Under the new agreements, Premier's alliance of 2,700 hospitals will have access ...
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Isis Pharmaceuticals has obtained the US FDA fast track designation for ISIS-TTR to treat familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP). The antisense drug ISIS-TTR, a part of the Isis-GSK strategic RNA therapeutic alliance, is being developed ...
Tags: amyloid polyneuropathy candidate, Pharmaceuticals, genetic disease, drug
Carbon reduction management agent partners with PassivSystems at launch of the UK's largest ever trial of home energy management systems and solar PV. Climate Energy has today launched SmartHomes2020, the largest trial of home energy ...
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The Forest Stewardship Council of Australia (FSC) has named third-party auditor SCS Global Services as 'Certification Body of the Year' at its 2012 excellence awards. SCS, which is accredited to perform audits under FSC's standards for ...
Tags: FSC, SCS, third-party auditor, forestry, chain-of-custody
Genzyme, a Sanofi company, has submitted a new drug application to the FDA seeking approval for KYNAMRO for the treatment of patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH). The submission is based on trial in which ...
Tags: KYNAMRO, homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, HoFH