Archive for 'Payments'
Visa V.me Launch Confirmed
Visa has announced the launch of V.me, a multifaceted digital wallet that can be used to store Visa and non-Visa accounts. It will be possible to access V.me from computers, tablets and smartphones with NFC support to [...]
Barclaycard Stick-On NFC PayTag
Barclaycard UK have introduced PayTag, a small contactless NFC payment card that can be stuck on to the back of a mobile phone to make payments of up to £15.00. The move by Barclaycard hopes to [...]
NFC Joint Venture Under Investigation
The planned joint venture planned by the UK’s mobile operators Vodafone, Telefónica and Everything Everywhere have been put on hold after the European regulator opened an investigation citing “potential competition concerns”. The EU commission now has 90 [...]
Vodafone & Visa Partner NFC Payments
Vodafone and Visa have announced a partnership that will be made available to Vodafone’s 400m customer base spread across 30 different countries and will run on Visa’s NFC payment system payWave. The service will initially be [...]
Visa Provisioning Payment Accounts ‘Over The Air’
Visa have agreed a deal with Oberthur Technologies which will allow account information for Visa’s payWave system to be downloaded to mobile phones securely “over the air” and will make it simple for mobile phone operators, financial institutions [...]
London 2012 Olympics Payment App
Visa and Samsung have announced that they will be releasing a payment app for the London 2012 Olympics that will allow users to make payments at over 3000 payment terminals spread across many of the Olympic [...]
Moneto NFC For 6 New Samsung Smartphones
Moneto have announced that six Samsung Galaxy S Andriod smartphones will be supported by the moneto wallet in addition to the iPhone 4, 4S & 3GS. The Moneto mobile wallet was announced earlier this year and [...]
Google Releases Wallet Fix
Google have announced that they have released a fix for the Google Wallet and have also also re-enabled the provisioning of prepay cards. One would hope that they very carefully check every inch of code and [...]
Google Pulls Wallet Pre-Pay Cards
This weekend Google put the breaks on Google Wallet by preventing the provisioning of new pre-pay cards, which in turn stops any new customers from setting up Google Wallet. Google have also released a statement regarding [...]
Google Wallet Vunerability Found
A vulnerability has been discovered in Google Wallet which could allow for the users PIN number to be revealed via a brute force attack, but only if your phone is running a rooted version of Andriod. [...]
Pouch – Cloud Based NFC Payment Service
Today the first cloud based NFC emulation service which fully confirms to MasterCard’s PayPass and Visa’s PayWave contactless payment standards has been announced by YESpay and YES-wallet. The new technology allows merchants via the Pouch cloud service to implement a contactless [...]
Google Wallet Ready NFC Mobiles
Sprint has announced it is to add two new 4G NFC enabled phones to its range of mobiles, the new devices are the Samsung built Google Galaxy Nexus and the LG Viper both of which join [...]
NFC Payments With Any Smartphone
Until now, there hasnt been the option to use your mobile to make payments unless you have the inbuilt NFC chip. However there has been an exciting announcement by two mobile payment companies, DeviceFidelity and SpringCard, [...]
NFC Vending Machines
Cantaloupe Systems who provide technical services for vending machine operators confirm that they are installing the NFC technology in vending machines, which will allow users with Google Wallet installed on their Android phone to pay for [...]
Google Wallet At OfficeMax
OfficeMax is now offering shoppers with a Google Wallet NFC enabled phone to make purchases at over 100 of their stores across the greater New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington DC regions. OfficeMax is the latest [...]
Google’s Mobile NFC Wallet
Google NFC payment service ‘Google Wallet’ officially launches today, the launch was promised by Google in the summer of 2011 and had previously been expected for 1st September 2011. The launch comes just days before the [...]
Paypal Mobile Payments
Paypal has unveiled a new system of mobile payments that does not require NFC technology and while Paypal is not dismissing NFC technology, they have developed this system to migrate from being an online only business [...]
Paypal NFC On Android
Paypal have showcased there new Andriod application that allows NFC enabled mobile phones to make phone 2 phone payments by swiping them together. The system is secure as it involves one person to initiate the transfer [...]
