2013 has every possibility of becoming the year of the mobile device.Even since the beginning of 2012,uptake of BYOD,enterprise mobility and more carefully constructed mobile device management solutions have begun to permeate IT with ...
Tags: devices and endpoint, mobile device, Windows 8, Apps
Nintendo said Thursday pre-order sales of its new Wii U console are strong and the console is likely to have shortages this holiday season after its launch. The company also expects a hit on its profits in the short-term from the console, ...
Tags: Nintendo, Wii U console, console, shortages
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
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. ...
Tags: ISIS, mobile payment, wireless carrier, interview
Google has started shipping units of the highly anticipated Nexus 7 tablet, but multiple retailers said the tablet has sold out and that they are struggling to fill orders. GameStop has pulled the Nexus 7 tablet order page from its ...
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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 newly launched BMW Car Hotspot LTE is now bringing LTE high-speed mobile internet access to the road. Just like a router in the home, the BMW Car Hotspot LTE provides internet access for mobile client devices. All that is required ...
Tags: LTE, internet surfing, Hotspot, BMW Car
Taipei, Sept. 11, 2012 (CENS)--The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) has agreed to allow banks buying into mobile payment platform company organized by five major telecom carriers and EasyCard Corp, so as to tap the massive ...
Tags: Taiwan, FSC, mobile payment, EasyCard Corp, mainland China
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 ...
Tags: NFC, Apple, communication technology, iPhone 5
Near Field Communication, or NFC, is a contactless radio technology that can transmit data between two devices within a few centimetres of each other. Mobile phones are increasingly being equipped with NFC capabilities, enabling an array ...
Tags: radio technology, transmit data, Mobile phone, NFC capabilities
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
Delays are plaguing Google's Nexus 7 tablet with 16GB of storage as some stores have stopped taking orders or delayed shipments of the product. The tablet has been unavailable on Google's website since the middle of this week after ...
Tags: delays, Google, Nexus 7 tablet, 16GB of storage, shipments
The Samsung Galaxy S3 can be hacked via NFC, allowing attackers to download all data from the Android smartphone, security researchers demonstrated during the Mobile Pwn2Own contest in Amsterdam on Wednesday. Researchers from security ...
Tags: Samsung, Galaxy S3, NFC, Mobile Pwn2Own competition
Sony Mobile today announced three new smartphones and a 9.4-in. Android 4.0 tablet at the IFA show in Berlin. The devices were described by Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai as helping accelerate Sony's turnaround. "Sony is an extraordinary company ...
Tags: Sony Mobile, smartphones, Android 4.0 tablet, IFA show