A new report published this week by the Centre for Retail Research on behalf of Kelkoo, the price-comparison website, showed shopping on mobile devices was most popular among British consumers. Read more...
The European Commission has just published a new green paper seeking views about the obstacles that are stopping further integration of the card, internet and mobile payments market. Read more...
It is customary at this time of year to make predictions for 2012. Pronouncements such as “RIM gets bought” or “A lot of NFC handsets will be sold” are common. Read more...
Everyone agrees that the trusted service manager, or TSM, has a crucial role to play in mobile payments. Views of what tasks will fall to the TSM vary but most agree it will manage NFC services using the networks of mobile operators, as well as manage the commercial relationships between service providers and operators. Read more...
Savings, insurance and pensions may not be the most riveting of subject matter, but you’d be amazed how many people want to have them. And that does not just mean people in the developed world who are familiar with banking established as a part of their everyday life. Read more...
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The Thanksgiving holiday in the US, which is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, traditionally marks the end of the harvest season. The holiday is an expression of thanks from Americans for their material and spiritual wellbeing. Read more...
A recent survey in the UK of more than 2,000 mobile phone users produced some worrying answers about consumer perceptions of NFC. The survey, which was commissioned by Opinion matters on behalf of Gemalto, found less than one-third (32 percent) of consumers know what NFC stands for. Read more...
While one tends to associate the notion of affordability with emerging markets, reasonably-priced NFC-enabled handsets have actually first emerged in the developed world. Read more...
Safaricom’s M-Pesa mobile money service now processes more transactions within Kenya than Western Union does globally according to a recent report by the International Monetary Fund. It’s another statistic that points to the extraordinary success of M-Pesa (the same report from the IMF also points out that M-Pesa provides mobile banking facilities to more than 70 percent of Kenya’s adult population). Read more...
Like a late-arriving train, Google has finally announced its first partnership with a public transport provider to accept payments from its mobile wallet. Read more...
More evidence this week about why mobile operators and other players must keep a mind on how understandably sensitive users are about the security of their debit and credit card data. Read more...
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The Isis joint venture in the US between Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile this week announced that six of the world’s leading handset vendors were on board to launch NFC handsets based on the joint venture’s technology and standards. Sounds good especially when the six vendors are HTC, LG, Motorola Mobility, RIM, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, big names all. Read more...
Leading chip vendor Broadcom has revamped its NFC offering with a new chipset family. The company has upped its game in the NFC market following the acquisition of Innovision Research & Technology last year. The move gives the NFC chipset market a shot of much-needed optimism. Read more...
Google Wallet has launched commercially. The service was of course first announced in May and Google has subsequently been trialling it. The launch was originally scheduled for the summer so anticipation has built up. What new do we know? Read more...
Online payments giant Paypal last week unveiled the technologies it will use to compete against rivals as it attempts to move into the market for physical rather than virtual payments. Read more...
Two announcements this week have demonstrated how mobile money providers are looking at the concept of consumer trust as central to turning their mobile money businesses into mass market propositions. Read more...
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