Tuesday, May 15, 2012

CIBC, Rogers announce Canada's first mobile wallet

News13 new results for NFC Mobile Payment
CIBC, Rogers announce Canada's first mobile wallet
Reuters
NFC chips are considered a safer alternative to traditional magnetic strips, which are more easily hacked. The global value of mobile payment transactions is difficult to quantify, given that research firms have defined the market in different ways, ...
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Virgin Mobile gets a Google Wallet phone: LG Optimus Elite
GigaOM
Virgin Mobile is a Sprint-owned pre-paid brand and the new handset is the first on Virgin Mobile to include a near-field communications (NFC) chip that can use Google's Wallet for mobile purchases. The Android 2.3 handset is priced at $149.99 with ...
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Digicel, VeriFone launch NFC payments in Tonga
NFCNews
Mobile operator Digicel Pacific Limited has announced the deployment of VeriFone's mWallet services and NFC-enabled payment systems in the Kingdom of Tonga. Starting this week, Digicel subscribers in the the Tongan capital Nuku'alofa will be able to ...
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HTC Desire C announced – delivers Android 4.0, NFC and a 5MP camera on a budget
androidandme.com
Ensuring that HTC Desire C keeps pace with new mobile services as they become available there is also an NFC variant of this model, allowing users to make payments or access information and offers. Nick is a tech enthusiast who has a soft spot for HTC ...
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Canada smartphones soon to double as credit cards
Moneycontrol.com
All its customers are expected to have phones equipped with NFC chips within three years. The potential value of mobile payments is difficult to quantify, given that research firms define the market in different ways. But all agree the sector will boom ...
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Research and Markets: Future Growth Potential of Mobile Money in Russia ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Operators are concentrating on making contactless mobile payment service available to users in line with the NFC standard. Figure 9: Russian Mobile Money Market Size by Volume and Avg. Transaction Size, 2011-2016 Syndicated stories and blog feeds, ...
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London music festival goes completely cashless with NFC tech
T3
The festival vendors will also accept over contactless methods like QuickTap, an NFC-based mobile payments solution from Barclaycard and Orange and BarclayCard PayTag, a sticker that can be placed on the back of any mobile handset and works as an ...
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T3
Missouri State University Selects Blackboard for Contactless Campus Card System
MarketWatch (press release)
Based on the Near Field Communication (NFC) ISO-standard protocol, the new system enables MSU to integrate student identification, door security, commerce, and campus payment with a single contactless card to make the student experience significantly ...
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Majority of the Readers to be Delivered in 2012
GlobeNewsWire (press release)
ISELIN, NJ, May 15, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On Track Innovations Ltd. ("OTI") (Nasdaq:OTIV) announced today that the Company has received an order for 30000 Near Field Communication (NFC) and contactless payment readers.
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Carrefour uses NFC and QR codes to speed up grocery shopping
NFC World
By Sarah Clark | nfcworld.com | May 15th, 2012 The French retail giant's convenience store chain has launched 'Mon Panier', a mobile app that lets customers order and pay for their grocery shopping with their mobile phone — and then identify ...
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Tonga gets commercial NFC payments service
NFC World
Digicel Pacific, a mobile network operator with operations across the Pacific, has launched an NFC payments service in the archipelago nation of Tonga. The service works with NFC phones and with NFC tags issued by Digicel that are linked to customers' ...
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HTC EVO 4G LTE review - a One for Sprint
Mobile Burn
The EVO 4G LTE comes with the Google Wallet app out of the box, and its built-in NFC feature means that the phone can be used to pay for goods or services anywhere Google Wallet is accepted. Unfortunately, Google Wallet wasn't yet working on our review ...
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DIGICEL AND VERIFONE COMBINE TO LAUNCH UNIQUE MOBILE WALLET PAYMENTS SERVICE ...
Barnacle
Nuku'alofa, Tonga – May 14th, 2012, Digicel today launched an innovative addition to its Digicel Mobile Money service offering which sees customers in Tonga being able to pay for goods and services through any mobile phone using NFC technology – and ...
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