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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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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Podcast - 14th December 2012
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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From Christmas SMS to customer service
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
Apple iPhone 5 is blamed
Juniper Research has revised its forecasts for the worldwide NFC market, lowering its estimates for NFC growth in North America and Western Europe.
It says Apple’s decision not to include NFC technology in its iPhone 5 has reduced the confidence of brands and retailers, which means we’ll see fewer NFC marketing campaigns and less interest in rolling out new Point of Sale equipment.
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Categories: Handsets and manufacturers, Retailing, Applications, News
Tags: research, nfc, payments, iphone, usa, europe, japan, south korea
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