Barclays offers 1st international mobile phone transfers

News 6 new results for NFC Mobile Payment

NFC and the Trough of Disillusionment ReadWriteWeb One such technology, near field communications (NFC), has promised easy mobile payments for the last few years. NFC so far has been more hype rather than reality. According to research firm Gartner, the hype for NFC may soon be coming to an end. See all stories on this topic » ReadWriteWeb

Report: McDonald's, PayPal Testing Mobile Payments PC Magazine ... when compared to Asia. Although mobile payments technology seems like a cool bit of science fiction-style convenience, a recent report claimed that only 8 percent of U.K. McDonald's customers even knew they had the ability to pay using NFC technology. See all stories on this topic »

Mobile commerce security a top issue in Singapore QR Code Press Gemalto, one of the companies forming the consortium, claims that there are no inherent security dangers that exist in NFC technology. NFC is, largely, a passive technology, used only to facilitate mobile payments through the transmission of digital ... See all stories on this topic » QR Code Press

Barclays offers 1st international mobile phone transfersGoMo NewsThe mobile payments sector is hotting up very fast indeed. But Barclays Bank appears to have a strong grasp of what the market wants. That's the opposite to industry pundits who predict m-payments will only happen if everyone has an NFC enabled handset.See all stories on this topic »

Mobile commerce may soon blend with social networks QR Code Press Though integrating social networks into a mobile commerce scheme may make mobile payments more widely available to consumers, mobile commerce may not find the success it needs until the availability of NFC-enabled mobile devices increases. Related ... See all stories on this topic » QR Code Press

Protecting Your Brand in a Mobile Payments Ecosystem Credit Union Times In an era of almost daily news about alternate and mobile payment solutions in our industry, credit union executives are right to be concerned – not only about the future of their business, but also of the potential dilution of their brand as new ... See all stories on this topic »

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