The BlackBerry Bold 9900 and BlackBerry Curve 9360 smartphones have been announced as the first SIM-based NFC smartphones to be certified by MasterCard Worldwide as PayPass-approved devices.
It means that any bank issuing MasterCard PayPass credit or debit cards will be able to deploy MasterCard PayPass-enabled accounts to the SIM card of these smartphones.
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The Google Wallet mobile payment application, which was announced by the company in May, is now being rolled out to customers in the USA.
It’s currently only available on the Google Nexus S 4G phone to customers who have a Citi MasterCard credit card or the Google Prepaid debit card and are using the Sprint network, although Visa, Discover and American Express are also expected to participate in the future.
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Google is the latest company to confirm its plans to launch a 'mobile wallet'.
It's been demonstrating the Google Wallet application today and says this'll be launched to consumers in the summer on the Nexus S 4G in the USA. The app has been developed in partnership with Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Welcome to this week's news summary from TheFonecast.com.
In Wednesday's podcast Iain joked that we ought to have a regular Olympics news story because everyone else was talking about the event constantly. Well, following the headlines about introducing WiFi to tube stations in time for London 2012 comes another Olympic news story.
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Digital security company Gemalto has announced that its SIM card embedded with a Near Field Communication application has been certified by MasterCard. It's the world’s first SIM-embedded app that complies with MasterCard's mobile NFC spec.
Gemalto's now preparing to launch the service in the UK with a global financial institution and a mobile operator.
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