Monday, April 16, 2012

European regulators put the brakes on UK NFC joint venture

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European regulators put brakes on UK NFC joint venture
NFC World
The European Commission has announced that it has decided to open an in-depth investigation under EU merger regulations into the planned NFC joint venture between mobile network operators Vodafone, Telefónica and Everything Everywhere.
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Turkcell combines m-wallet and location services
Telecoms.com
Turkish carrier Turkcell and local bank Akbank have announced a partnership to introduce an NFC-based mobile wallet service incorporating location-based elements. The consolidation of Turkcell's mobile payments and LBS initiatives means that ...
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PayByPhone to demonstrate the UK's first NFC parking solution

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PayByPhone to demonstrate the UK's first NFC parking solution
GoMo News
If you have an NFC enabled Android or Blackberry phones in order to use NFC and pay for parking all you have to do is follow three very simple steps. 1. Tap the NFC enabled mobile phone over the NFC logo on the PayByPhone sticker.
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VingCard Elsafe Collaborates in Mobile Hotel Booking Functionality for Automobiles
Hospitality Net (press release)
This innovation complements VingCard Elsafe"s award-winning Mobile Keys technology platform, which leverages NFC to instantly turn any mobile device—smartphone, tablet computer, car key—into a guestroom access key." The hotel reservations interface ...
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New report provides an in-depth guide to NFC technologies and systems
NFC World
"Now, with this new report, anyone can get fully up to speed with how NFC technology can be employed to maximum advantage — no prior knowledge of NFC, contactless or mobile technologies is required." NFC Technologies and Systems begins with an ...
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Review: Sony Xperia S scores on design
IBNLive.com
The phone is also DLNA certified so you can share content with other DLNA compatible devices including TVs, mobile phones, PCs, laptops and others. It also supports NFC technology that enables convenient short-range communication between electronic ...
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BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA S.A. : BBVA names Garanti's Sezgin head of ...
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Near Field Communication (NFC) is one of the innovation areas that Garanti has been working on with leading GSM operators and already more 17000 PoS terminals of Garanti accept payment through mobile phones. Garanti has agreements with all the ...
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Samsung Galaxy S II Finally Gets Upgraded To Android 4.0 ICS On Vodafone UK
Solar Panels News
There's also the NFC file sharing feature called the Android Beam. Samsung Galaxy S II owners who are on other UK carriers O2 and Three, have already received their Android 4.0 updates early on in this month whereas those on Orange and T-Mobile are ...
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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Nokia Get's NFC Technology from Inside Secure

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INSIDE SECURE : Supplies NFC Technology for New Nokia Lumia 610 NFC Smartphone
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"We are very excited to be providing the NFC core technology for the Lumia 610 NFC, and to be working with Nokia on the development of this NFC smartphone," said Charles Walton, General Manager, NFC and Secure Payments, INSIDE Secure.
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Nokia launches first NFC Windows Phone | DailyFT

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Nokia launches first NFC Windows Phone | DailyFT - Be Empowered
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Sales of NFC-enabled cellphones are expected to more than triple to 100 million handsets this year as manufacturers and operators roll out new models, hoping to tap emerging market for mobile payments, research firm Berg Insight said last ...
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Blaze Mobile Awarded NFC Payment Patent

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Blaze Mobile Awarded Another Patent for NFC Payments
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Blaze Mobile, a leader in mobile payment and NFC solutions, has been awarded a notice of allowance for a new patent for mobile banking and payment transactions. This new patent covers any mobile banking transactions that ...
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Bump Pay Mobile Payments Using NFC Technology - FinLab

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Bump Pay Mobile Payments Using NFC Technology - FinLab
Bump Technologies expands their NFC technology usage to enter the mobile payments and peer-to-peer money transfer market.
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Sneak It » Do We Even Need NFC For Mobile Payments? PayPal ...
If you tried to judge whether NFC mobile payments are ready for prime time — based on the amount of chatter you hear in your newsfeed — you'd think the ...
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Payment solutions provider KeyBS eyeing GCC expansion

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Payment solutions provider KeyBS eyeing GCC expansion
CPI Financial
KeyBS, a newly-launched payment solutions technology company, aims to expand into the lucrative GCC markets to capitalise on the region's growing technology use and demand for automated solutions. The company will provide advanced mobile, ...
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Investment Trend: Mobile Payment Systems

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Mobile payments: A revolution in progress
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
The system seems to be growing faster than many of the other mobile payment systems that retailers have been experimenting with, but don't declare a winner yet in the competition to change how consumers pay for goods, said Rick Oglesby, senior analyst ...
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Another Entrant into the Mobile Payment Wars - AAPL, ARMH ...
Search giant Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has struggled to gain traction with its mobile payment system, Google Wallet, despite its Android platform having a ...
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Investment Trend: Mobile Payment Systems
Writer Harriette Halepis discusses the rise of mobile payments and what the trend means for investors.
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Starbucks Reaches 42 Million Mobile Payment Transactions As App ...
The Starbucks app for iPhone and Android devices lets customers check their balance, reload their card with any major credit card and view their transactions.
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Smartphone and tablet popularity brings maturity to mobile payment ...
Smartphone and tablet popularity brings maturity to mobile payment marketplace says KPMG. 10/Apr/2012. Global m-payment transactions are expected to grow ...
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The Mobile Payment Frontier

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Top 5 iPhone 5 And Samsung Galaxy S3 Rumors You Should Know About
International Business Times
By Akansha Srivastava: Subscribe to Akansha's RSS feed Rumors about the upcoming Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy's next flagship model are all the rage in the mobile space. All the tech-forward consumers are hoping to get their hands on the ...
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The Mobile Payment Frontier
InformationWeek
This system lets customers tap a smartphone against a special reader to pay for a purchase. Initiatives such as Google Wallet and Isis aim to drive NFC-based mobile payments into the retail landscape. However, doing so requires NFC-enabled phones and ...
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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Apriva Plans Wallet Platform Demo At ETA Conference On April 18

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Apriva Plans Wallet Platform Demo At ETA Conference On April 18
Vending Times
The technology-neutral, cloud-based mobile commerce platform supports magnetic stripe plus proximity wireless NFC and EMV payment technologies, and can integrate with more than 30 payment-processing platforms, as well as financial institutions and ...
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Zurich leads RIMS 2012 discussions on near field communications

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The advancement of near field communications (NFC) is making it easier for consumers, banks and retailers to conduct business by phone. But the ease of ...
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INSIDE Secure To Showcase Variety of NFC Solutions at WIMA

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Orange Near Field Communications (NFC) Payment - Mobile ...
Orange launched CityZi Pass, a new method of enabling mobile subscribers to purchase and validate tickets.
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INSIDE Secure To Showcase Variety of NFC Solutions at WIMA ...
Bernard Vian, executive VP of payments will speak on "NFC Mobile Solutions for Transit Fare Collection Systems" at 2:00 pm on April 12; Francois Willem, ...
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NFC Forum Extends N-Mark Availablity to Developers, Device ...
Clearly, there remains a long way to go before this happens and current NFC based mobile payment ventures are doing nothing to help." Bookmark or Share ...
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European Commission opens investigation into UK NFC payments

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European Commission opens investigation into UK NFC payments ...
By Raveesh Bhalla
It's no secret that the young, NFC-based mobile payment industry seems to resemble complete anarchy. Several of these joint ventures are already following questionable (IMHO) practices, such as Verizon banning Google Wallet on the ...
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Making Print Interactive: QR Codes and NFC | interlinkONE, Inc.
By Jason Pinto
The Wikipedia page on NFC lists a number of practical applications on how NFC could be applied to the "real world". A lot of the recent talk and news centers around how it will be a huge player in the mobile payment world. You'll be able to ...
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EU Opens Probe Into Mobile-Payments Joint Venture Wall Street Journal

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Vodafone Faces Expanded EU Probe With O2 on Mobile-Payment Deal
BusinessWeek
The joint venture would have "very high market shares" in growing markets for mobile-payment applications, mobile advertising and data-analytic services, regulators said. The EU agency is "wary" of efforts that may exclude rivals in its review of ...
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EU Opens Probe Into Mobile-Payments Joint Venture
Wall Street Journal
The commission's preliminary investigation indicated potential competition concerns in the nascent markets of mobile-payment applications supply [so-called "mobile wallets"], mobile advertising and related data analytics services, where the joint ...
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M-Commerce Vendor Analysis by Mind Commerce Recently Published at ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
... 2.7.1 Content Download 2.7.2 Point Of Sale 2.7.3 Content On Device 2.7.4 Mobile Payment Methods 2.7.5 "In-Band" Payment Method 2.7.6 Proximity 2.7.7 Common Issues Of Mobile Payment 2.7.8 Payment Lifecycle 2.7.9 Conclusion 2.8 Major Trends Affecting ...
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Europe to examine UK mobile payments joint venture
Reuters
By Claire Davenport BRUSSELS, April 13 (Reuters) - European Union antitrust regulators said on Friday they will examine whether a joint venture between the three largest British telecoms companies on mobile payment technologies and advertising falls ...
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Google Wallet flops? Google landed UK's mobile phone payments market
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It was born sometime September 2011 to capitalize the mobile-payment market after a soft launch it just didn't took off as creators want it to be. According to San Francisco Chronicle, "Google is weighing changes aimed to improve it's Googe Wallet ...
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Facebook Acquires Mobile Payment Startup TagTile
Business 2 Community
This time it is TagTile, a startup mobile payment and loyalty application company based in San Francisco. TagTile is another purely mobile purchase for Facebook, (available as a free download in the App Store and Google Play) but this is aimed ...
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Canadian Mint issues mobile money challenge to developers
Mobile Payments Today
A new contest from the Royal Canadian Mint may address Canada's lack of mobile payment options. Just a few weeks after a government panel reported Canadians are falling behind in mobile payments, the Mint announced it has launched a contest challenging ...
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Enter the PayDragon
Mobile Payments Today
PayDragon, a new mobile payment and purchasing app, gives mobile food truck customers (or really any restaurant patron) the ability to order and pay for food with a single click. The app is being rolled out to restaurants and food trucks in the Los ...
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Two mobile payments players join forces
InternetRetailer.com
"By leveraging AisleBuyer's technology and talent, together we will bring added value to Intuit's mobile payment and point-of-sale offerings, including GoPayment. In particular, AisleBuyer's technology opens up the mobile point-of-sale ecosystem to our ...
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M-commerce, the next big thing
Times of India
... says that 47% of smartphone owners and 56% of tablet owners plan to purchase more products on their respective devices in the future. The market is virgin and with the betterment of e-commerce in general and mobile payment gateways in particular, ...
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Intuit Confirms Acquisition of AisleBuyer in Latest mCommerce Power Play
Daily Deal Media
In recent months, Intuit has wholly stepped up its push for the company's robust slate of mobile payment and point-of-sale technologies, like GoPayment. All told, this latest acquisition and combination of resources will help Intuit nurture the very ...
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Canada Wants To Turn Coins Into Bits
Vending Times
The MintChip Challenge, conducted by ChallengePost, is open to North American software developers who want to create innovative mobile payment applications using the MintChip technology. MintChip is more a protocol and system than a physical device.
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Never too early to take stock
Financial Times
In early December, a good opportunity presented itself in the form of Monitise, the Visa-linked mobile payment technology firm, so George invested the whole £2500. This holding was sold about three months later, for £2850, bringing another £350 in ...
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eBay (NasdaqGS: EBAY) Hopes Mobile Payments Go Mainstream ...
By Ari Charney
eBay's PayPal hopes to extend its brand into the mobile payments space, but it takes a dim view of mobile payment systems that employ near-field communication (NFC).
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The Commission's preliminary investigation indicated potential competition concerns in the nascent markets of mobile payment applications supply, mobile wallets, mobile advertising and related data analytics services, where the joint venture ...
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Total-Apps.com Releases Mobile Payment SDKS for App ...
Total-Apps is today announcing its new mobile payment SDKS Card processing application. The app is designed to be used on smartphones or other mobile ...
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Top 4 Mobile Payment Solutions For Small Businesses
Mobile payments solution is a new alternative which is invading the global markets. Less expensive, easier, more profitable, we can find nowadays a variety of ...
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Talisman Online is a MMORPG free online game with full 3D visual angle. With a fantastic background of ancient Orient Legend, it has a small client and you will ...
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Nokia launches mobile payment technology with Windows Wireless ...
Lumia 610 is the first model to adopt NFC technology. System allows you to make payments via mobile phone. Nokia unveiled on Wednesday (11) Lumia.
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Brazil gets NFC payments trial

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Brazil gets NFC payments
Mobile Payments Today
A blog post on the Nokia corporate site announced the first commercial NFC payment trial in Brazil. The post said the program began a few days ago and lets customers carrying Nokia C7, Nokia N9 and Nokia 701 access an NFC-enabled mobile wallet.
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Friday, April 13, 2012

NewNet Launches TraxcomSecure® AccessGuard 1000 Enhanced Mobile Broadband

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NewNet Launches TraxcomSecure® AccessGuard 1000 Enhanced Mobile Broadband ...
SunHerald.com
NewNet Communication Technologies, a recognized leader in secure transaction processing and wireless network infrastructure, today announced a powerful new addition to its field proven and widely deployed AccessGuard mobile and broadband payment ...
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LG Viper April 22 Release Date
Wireless and Mobile News
Features of the LG Viper include Android 2.3 Gingerbread, a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM, mobile hotspot, 4GB card microSD slot that supports up to 32GB, 5MP camera, front-facing camera, 4" Gorilla Glass touchscreen and NFC.
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New Zealand Telcos, Paymark Prepare For NFC Venture

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NFC, Payments and Local Retail Fighting Back ... Deals and Deal Apps, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Payments, Mobile Retail, Mobile Wallets and NFC by jboyd ...
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New Zealand Telcos, Paymark Prepare For NFC Venture ...
One of the major hurdles in propelling NFC is the involvement of many players with competing interests, Richard Oglesby, senior analyst and mobile pay expert ...
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QUICK LINKS: MOBILE MONEY TRANSFER MOBILE PAYMENTS MOBILE ... Nokia unveiled on Wednesday its Lumia 610 NFC model, first to take the ...
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