Barclays has officially launched its answer to Android Pay via an upgrade to its Android app. The bank previously declined to join Google's NFC payment service, which launched in the UK this May, and has kept its own service fairly quiet ...
The Smile is the world's first smart phone you can wear like a bracelet! Not only that, but it can also read your mood. It will know if you're stressed out or relaxing. It can monitor your diet and your health. It will inform you when you ...
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Telecom carriers continue to complain about taxes, regulation and over-the-top competition, but Mozilla's Firefox operating system provides a glimmer of hope to some executives speaking at the opening of Mobile World Congress. Mobile ...
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Dual interface shipments to exceed the 1 billion mark in 2015. The number of dual interface and pure contactless smart cards is expected to make up 30% of all smart card shipments in 2018, rising from 16% of the 8.6 billion smart cards ...
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The Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS)Group has teamed up with Visa Europe to bring mobile payments to customers through its TouchPay scheme. The banking group–which includes RBS and NatWest–has introduced TouchPay cases for Apple ...
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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
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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Major high street banks are planning to impose new terms and conditions on customers that would make them squarely responsible for credit and debit card fraud. Further reading Seven-year glitch earns Bank of Scotland 4.2m fine Banks' IT ...
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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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Google announced this week that it would discontinue support for its branded pre-paid card in Google Wallet on Oct. 17, and urged customers to take steps to ensure they recover all their funds in a timely manner. PREVIOUSLY: Google Wallet ...
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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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IDG News Service-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 ...
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This exclusive report for Computer Weekly readers by Juniper Research,offers a comprehensive briefing on the opportunities for NFC mobile payment technology in the retail industry. The report,written for senior IT professionals,covers the ...
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