NFC

Is Apple Pay Prepping A SIM Card For Next Year?
Is Apple Pay Prepping A SIM Card For Next Year?
September 22, 2014  |  Mobile

Is a vague comment from the CEO of SoftCard (formerly ISIS, the AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile mobile payment effort) that his group is “actively working...

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Who Will Run “Android Pay?”
Who Will Run “Android Pay?”
September 22, 2014  |  Karen Webster

While the world’s now focused on Apple Pay, there’s another “A” player that’s just as capable of shaking things up in mobile payments. Android. Except...

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Tesco Embraces Mobile Grocery Purchases
Tesco Embraces Mobile Grocery Purchases
September 22, 2014  |  Mobile

Tesco is trialing at a handful of stores—in London and Edinburgh—a mobile payment system, currently only being offered to employees. “Consumers must sign in to...

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Apple Pay’s NFC Not Available To Anyone But Apple (Now)
Apple Pay’s NFC Not Available To Anyone But Apple (Now)
September 17, 2014  |  Apple Pay

Apple has locked down the iPhone 6’s NFC chip, which it uses for Apple Pay mobile payments, and it can’t be used by any other...

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Among (The Few) M-Pay Users, NFC  Is Popular
Among (The Few) M-Pay Users, NFC Is Popular
September 16, 2014  |  Merchant Innovation

NFC is not quite the method of mobile payments most users are most familiar.  That honor still goes to the QR code or barcode which...

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U.K. Telco Partnership Weve Bails On NFC
U.K. Telco Partnership Weve Bails On NFC
September 16, 2014  |  Europe

When first unveiled under the name project Oscar, Weve was a collaboration between British telecoms EE, Telefonica and Vodafone to grab a piece of the set-to-ignite-any-minute...

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