May

2013

Visa says over €1 billion has been spent using contactless cards and NFC smartphones in Europe

Visa Europe says the adoption of NFC contactless payments has reached a ‘critical point’ across Europe.

More than 19 million transactions took place in March 2013, driving the total spend on contactless cards and smartphones equipped with a Visa payWave app to over €1 billion (£856 million).

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Categories: Applications, News

Tags: visa, payments, nfc

Feb

2013

MasterCard launches MasterPass for online and mobile payments

Author: The Fonecast

MasterCard has launched a new digital payment service called MasterPass.

It combines a secure ‘digital wallet’ for online shopping with the ability to use a mobile device for payments in high-street shops.

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Categories: Retailing, Applications, News

Tags: mastercard, payments, nfc, barcode, australia, canada, uk, usa

Feb

2013

Visa and Samsung sign a global agreement to promote mobile NFC payments

Author: The Fonecast

Visa and Samsung have announced a partnership that combines Visa’s expertise in payments with Samsung’s mobile technology.

It’ll enable financial institutions to download payment account information to NFC-enabled Samsung devices via the Visa Mobile Provisioning Service.

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Categories: Handsets and manufacturers, Applications, News

Tags: visa, samsung, nfc, payments

Dec

2012

Gemalto and mobile financial services: we talk to Amol Deshmukh and Winston Yeo

Podcast - 14th December 2012

Author: The Fonecast

Today's podcast feature takes a look at mobile financial services, from the current state of mobile payments to NFC adoption and the developments we're likely to see next year.

Joining us are Winston Yeo, Vice President Marketing and Product Management for Mobile Financial Services at Gemalto, and Amol Deshmukh, Gemalto's Director of Mobile Financial Services for North America.

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Tags: gemalto, banking, payments, nfc

Dec

2012

Last week at The Fonecast: 10th December 2012

From Christmas SMS to customer service

Author: The Fonecast

Mark Bridge writes:

We started last week with a 20th birthday party for the SMS text message, which was first used as an alternative Christmas card by Neil Papworth in 1992. Since then, mobile data has been transformed from the familiar dit-dit-dit dah-dah dit-dit-dit of Nokia phones to non-stop internet connectivity on smart devices.

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Categories: Handsets and manufacturers, Retailing, Networks and operators, Operating systems, Applications, Opinion

Tags: opinion, research, ofcom, nokia, data, sms, uk, mvno, ee, orange, t-mobile, nfc, customer service

Visa says over €1 billion has been spent using contactless cards and NFC smartphones in Europe

MasterCard launches MasterPass for online and mobile payments

Visa and Samsung sign a global agreement to promote mobile NFC payments

Gemalto and mobile financial services: we talk to Amol Deshmukh and Winston Yeo

Podcast - 14th December 2012

Last week at The Fonecast: 10th December 2012

From Christmas SMS to customer service

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