06-Feb-12
Comment: How 2012 will change the way we pay

This time last year, there were two new e-commerce channels everyone was talking about – social and mobile commerce, and 12 months on mobile commerce has really taken off. ...

06-Feb-12
Mobile payment apps work to make wallets obsolete

Mobile payment apps work to make wallets obsolete. Google argues that its NFC-based Wallet app is a big step forward for a few reasons. A single tap replaces not just the payment, but also the exchange of receipts, coupons and loyalty points. ...

06-Feb-12
PayPal Says It’s Full Speed Ahead on Mobile Payments After President Resigns

PayPal Says It’s Full Speed Ahead on Mobile Payments After President Resigns. Last year, PayPal exceeded its own expectations, reaching $4 billion in mobile payment volume. This year, it expects to increase that to $7 billion....

02-Feb-12
Turkcell Launches World's First SIM-Based, Mobile, Contactless Road Toll Payment with its Smartphone: T11

Turkcell TKC +0.58% (ise:TCELL), the leading communications and technology company today launched the world's first SIM-based, Near Field Technology ("NFC") road toll payment application on its own branded smartphone T11, in collaboration with Bank Asya....

13-Jan-12
Big advancements underway in mobile NFC

The new mobile standard, which allows for sending secure data in a contactless and powerful way, is just beginning to make strides in the smartphone market....

13-Jan-12
Pushing Mobile Payments

So far customers and retailers have remained tepid toward the technology, called near-field communication, or NFC, prompting Sprint and others at the Las Vegas show to try a different tack: touting NFC's "side benefits," which include mobile coupons and digital-key replacement....

12-Jan-12
Moneto uses microSD to implement their own NFC payment system on Android

Moneto uses microSD to implement their own NFC payment system on Android....

11-Jan-12
Visa certifies RIM, Samsung, LG for mobile payments

Next generation smartphones from RIM, Samsung and LG have earned Visa’s approval for use in the burgeoning mobile payments field....

10-Jan-12
Absa trials payments via mobile phone

Banking group Absa conducted South Africa's first live user trial of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology on mobile phones in December, with 500 of the bank's staff members using the technology in a commercial environment. ...

10-Jan-12
Visa approves new smartphones for NFC payments

Visa Europe has certified NFC-enabled smartphones from Samsung, LG Electronics and RIM for use as payment devices using the Visa payWave app at the point of sale....

05-Jan-12
Near Field Communication — the Next Mobile Boost?

Near field communication (NFC) is the technology that major companies are betting will become a central part of every mobile phone user's life....

05-Jan-12
NFC In 2012: Time For The Training Wheels

The way people pay for things is fundamentally changing. When it comes to mobile payments, 2011 was the year that the major players began marshalling their forces. 2012 will be the year of "NFC training wheels."...

05-Jan-12
Google Wallet to open up a new era of purchasing power

Google Wallet to open up a new era of purchasing power. The new application will soon be installed on many mobile phones and will convert a phone into an electronic wallet that will allow people to pay for goods without cash or a card....

15-Dec-11
NFC mobile threats on the horizon: What happens when we wave our wallets to pay?

Mobile payments predicted to reach $630 billion by 2014. All that money is too tempting of a target as a Lookout Mobile Security threat report warned; NFC trends like the mobile wallet will only encourage hackers....

15-Dec-11
Isis Secures Mobile Payments Platform as It Gears Up for Launch

Isis, the mobile payments venture formed by AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, announced the selection of digital security firm Gemalto to secure its mobile commerce platform as it gears up towards a 2012 rollout....

13-Dec-11
Five mobile trends to look out for in 2012

The mobile landscape of 2012 is ripe with possibility. Globally, it’s estimated that 5.3-billion people have mobile phones. This means that there are more people picking up a mobile phone every morning than lifting a newspaper. Increasingly, it’s not only to make calls and send texts either — mobile data traffic is trebling every year....

12-Dec-11
SA’s big four are banking on mobile

Lenders in race to win customers over to new cellular technologies, banks now in frantic race prompted by new phone smartphone technology...

12-Dec-11
Isis selects Gemalto to manage mobile payments for NFC wallet

Isis, the near field communication mobile wallet venture from Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, took another step forward with the announcement that it has selected SIM card maker and digital security specialist Gemalto as its trusted service manager (TSM) for the wallet....

09-Dec-11
Google needs to be open about Google Wallet, analyst says

Google launched its Android mobile operating system as an open platform, but the company hasn't been very open about how it's working with Verizon Wireless on the Google Wallet mobile payment app on the Galaxy Nexus, an analyst said Thursday....

09-Dec-11
Has the time finally arrived for NFC

Near Field Communication (NFC) for mobile payments has been making a buzz around the Indian market for some time but these buzzes have been just buzzes. NFC mobile payments still hold immense opportunity for their growth in the Indian market when it comes to contactless payments in the urban India. Although NFC is a relatively new technology, its adoption will sky rocket over the next few years....