Telstra, Australia's largest mobile carrier, announced today that, together with Visa and NAB (National Australian Bank), it intends to offer mobile payment options to its customers. The Australian carrier has launched a mobile payment trial, which involves a group of merchants and consumers from Melbourne Dockl... |
27 August 2008
20:41 GMT |
 |
|
Apparently, in a couple of years, we won't need cash or credit cards anymore when we go shopping, as mobile payment (meaning paying with the help of your mobile phone) will become a popular payment method, says Juniper Research. The UK-based telecoms analyst company published a forecast according to which, by 20... |
2 November 2007
11:22 GMT |
|
|
A partnership of large proportions has been built to introduce the Visa mobile platform in Taiwan. Nokia has decided to cooperate with Visa International, as well as with Chunghwa Telecom, Chinatrust Commercial Bank (CTCB), for launching a landmark trial for the starters.The trial will be conducted over a period of s... |
20 September 2007
05:10 GMT |
|
|
Google's interest for mobile phones has been reaffirmed with a new patent that the company has developed for mobile payment. This gives no hints on the future release of the speculated Gphone, but shows the company's decision of investing in this field. Google has applied for a patent for a mobile payments ... |
5 September 2007
04:02 GMT |
|
|
Citi, the global provider of financial services, announced an agreement with Obopay to conduct a trial of a new mobile payment service. As part of the limited trial, Citi will be providing the mobile payment service to its customers in Boston and Chicago. "Citi is committed to delivering best in class payment solutio... |
27 July 2007
09:20 GMT |
|
|
Finnish mobile phone operator Nokia, along with ten more mobile operators have joined in on supporting a GSM Association initiative that aims to enable the worldwide use of cellphones for payments at retail outlets.The list of new companies to join the 14 mobile operators that initiated the project in February includ... |
26 April 2007
03:47 GMT |
|
|
Infonox, the provider and operator of the Active Payment Platform that delivers financial services to Kiosks, ATMs and other delivery channels, announced the support of consumer mobile devices on its platform. Infonox has partnered with PayMate, the leading mobile-commerce solutions provider of India, to develop a su... |
18 April 2007
10:08 GMT |
|
|
During the CTIA Wireless trade show, Kyocera Wireless has demonstrated a prototype handset and devices to showcase The VISA platform using NFC technology. Kyocera has teamed up with Visa in order to demonstrate how mobile payment through NFC technology works and mobile phones can be turned into a payment solution, re... |
4 April 2007
03:06 GMT |
|
|
Any person that was passing through the ticket gates at London's Marylebone station recently may have noticed what might be the future of train ticketing. Two new ticket scanners, that read a barcode from the user's mobile phones, have been installed. Upon passing the mobile phone over the scanner the user ... |
3 April 2007
11:01 GMT |
|
|
ClairMail announced a strategic partnership with mobile operator TELUS to bring the ClairMail solution to Canada. TELUS and ClairMail will initially focus on enabling retail banks, credit unions, brokerages, and credit card companies across Canada to offer mobile banking and payments services.Offered exclusively in C... |
3 April 2007
07:17 GMT |
|
|
MasterCard Worldwide unveiled MasterCard Nearby, a trial of a new service that allows MasterCard cardholders to use their mobile phones to access helpful information, such as ATM and merchant locations, driving directions, rewards and special offers. All MasterCard cardholders in the United States can sign up for the... |
3 April 2007
06:17 GMT |
|
|
In a keynote, during the CTIA Wireless conference, Visa USA President and CEO Philip Coughlan detailed the steps that Visa is taking to advance mobile payments. According to him, mobile payment is currently at a critical moment in its development and it would take close collaboration between wireless and payment card... |
31 March 2007
04:06 GMT |
|
|
Clancy Systems International has announced that its Park-by-Phone Service is now available on System Parking of Chicago. Users that enroll in the service will be able to avoid the hassle of paying with coins, bills or tokens into parking meters by replacing them with their mobile phone. In order to sign up for the s... |
13 March 2007
09:20 GMT |
|
|
