Mobile payments threatened by diverse offerings, says platform provider

News 5 new results for NFC Mobile Payment

iPhone 5 Mobile Payments to Spark POS Sales? Channelnomics A Wall Street Journal article recently disclosed that Apple has been hesitant to enable NFC mostly because the mobile payment market has yet to become federated around a single solution. To date, Apple's iOS 6 Passbook application (which uses bar codes ... See all stories on this topic »

Mobile payments threatened by diverse offerings, says platform provider Retail Times Keith Brown, managing director at paythru, said: "As it stands the mobile payments market is very fragmented: digital wallets, NFC and mobile apps are all designed to enable m-commerce. "However, many of these have limitations. For example, NFC is only ... See all stories on this topic »

Survey: Majority of UK smart phone users still 'unlikely' to use NFC NFCNews The survey found that younger smart phone owners are more open to using a mobile wallet, with 42% of 18-24 year olds responding that they would be likely make NFC payments. However, over half (52%) of 18-24 year olds are still unlikely to use NFC ... See all stories on this topic »

Elisa issues NFC stickers to students NFC World Finnish mobile network operator Elisa has partnered with MasterCard and the student-owned Lyyra discount and benefit card to issue prepaid NFC stickers to more than 100000 students from the third quarter of 2012. Lyyra and Elisa. Students will be able ... See all stories on this topic » NFC World

Gemalto's NFC management service goes live in Singapore NFCNews According to Gemalto, the upcoming commercial roll out of NFC services will enable Singapore residents to tap and pay using their NFC-enabled mobile devices at over 20000 retail points, such as convenience stores, fast food restaurants, retailers and ... See all stories on this topic »

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