Almost three quarters of retail banks are increasing how much they spend on innovation as they attempt to better engage customers through mobile and online channels. According to a study of 300 banks in 66 countries, carried out by IT ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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MasterCard is testing new ways to make online transactions more secure with its PayPass application and a mobile phone, including using QR codes to secure the transactions. The card company is cooperating with Dutch bank ING Group on a ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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China and the US are the two countries most likely to come up with “disruptive technology breakthroughs” in the next two to four years, according to KPMG’s global Tech Innovation Survey 2012. Nearly one third of ...
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iZettle has begun selling its mobile payment technology in the UK through a partnership with mobile operator EE. The Swedish firm has designed card readers that can be attached to smartphones and, with the addition of a free app download, ...
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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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Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo's subscribers will be able to make mobile payments when travelling abroad next year, thanks to a collaboration with MasterCard. Together the two companies will expand DoCoMo's iD mobile credit payment ...
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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 ...
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Mobile commerce (mCommerce) adoption is growing among businesses both globally and locally as it opens new revenue lines, says SAP. According to Gartner, Asia-Pacific and Africa will account for more than 60 percent of global mobile ...
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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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