MasterCard has announced a new digital payment service called PayPass Wallet Services.
It’ll enable MasterCard’s banking partners to create their own digital wallets for online shopping - with consumers able to add any credit, debit and prepaid cards - and will also offer in-store NFC payments using compatible mobile phones. In addition, retailers will be able to include MasterCard’s check-out, fraud detection and authentication services into their own internet-connected transaction systems.
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Mark Bridge writes:
It's a hard life being an early adopter. Last week in London I walked past a bus shelter that displayed a sequence of posters. Next to the changing display panel was a blue NFC logo.
“For advertiser links and travel information touch your NFC enabled phone above”
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North American network operator Sprint has announced that it’s joining the Tizen Association, which is the industry consortium dedicated to supporting the Tizen open-source mobile platform.
Tizen was revealed in September 2011 as a successor to MeeGo.
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Market research company Newzoo has published new insights into the UK’s mobile gaming market.
The number of mobile gamers in the UK has grown by 18% year-on-year to 23.9 million people, with 75% of them playing on smartphones and 17% on tablets.
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Fujitsu Laboratories says it’s developing a technology to record stereoscopic 3D images by using a special attachment that fits over the lens of standard mobile phones.
More details will be announced at the International Symposium on Consumer Electronics in the USA next month.
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