Articles Archive for January 2006
Posted in India, SMS, Ticketing on 31 January 2006
There is a trial in Mumbai, India to test SMS local train tickets.
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Posted in RFID, Reports on 31 January 2006
Juniper Research predicted a boost of mobile tickets coupled with mobile payment scheme. A whitepaper is freely available (after subscription): “Ticketing Goes Mobile“.
Revenues from mobile ticketing and mobile retail services will assist the global mobile commerce market by generating over $63bn worth of revenue by 2010, according to a new report from Juniper Research
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Posted in Discussions, Japan, NFC, RFID, USA on 30 January 2006
Walaika K. Haskins from NewsFactor Network explains how money is being replaced by e-money in Japan. There is a discussion about the USA where credit cards are successful and mobile payments are taking off very slowing due to the industry structure.
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Posted in Platforms, RFID, USA on 30 January 2006
Scott Loftesness of Payment News.com
MasterCard and Citi have announced that they will be working with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and MTA New York City Transit to conduct a trial of contactless payments in select New York City subway stations with pre-selected Citi customers.
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Posted in Switzerland on 30 January 2006
Lundi 30 janvier 2006
Des nouvelles de l’initiative de PostFinance. Personnellement, je ne savais pas que le “couponing” était un “nouveau mode de paiement”. Mais bon… l’info est intéressante.
Après le commerce électronique, le commerce mobile commence à émerger. On appelle «couponing» ce nouveau mode de paiement qui permet aux clients de payer avec leur natel. Un [...]
Posted in Statistics, USA on 30 January 2006
Interesting figure posted on Services Mobiles. If we add the percentage of the “Money” and “Credit card” features, it reprensent 30%! Apparently Americans would like some sort of payment scheme incorporated into their mobile phone.
Posted in France, NFC on 29 January 2006
Le réseau Cofinoga (Galeries Lafayette, Monoprix, magasins du centre ville partenaires du réseau Cofinoga) teste la technologie NFC à Caen.
Pour plus d’info: http://www.caen-ville-nfc.com/
Posted in Japan, NFC on 29 January 2006
Dan Balaban relates the current developmen in Japan and how NTT DoCoMo is slowing becoming a financial institution. (A recommended reading)
While the business case for contactless payment has yet to be proved anywhere, Japan’s largest mobile telco, NTT DoCoMo, is moving boldly ahead with plans to launch its own credit brand on its contactless wallet [...]
Posted in Japan, RFID on 29 January 2006
Sony posted on their website a presentation file of their Felica (Contactless IC Card Technology).
Here is the link: local file or Sony’s website
Posted in Japan, RFID, Videos on 29 January 2006
The BBC made an interesting documentary about the current situtation in Japan for mobile payments (link).
BBC documentary for Real Player
If you want to watch the video in a different format, you can go the BBC orginal post here.
Posted in Academic, Switzerland on 29 January 2006
Scott Loftesness in October 2004:
I just came across some recent work by Jan Ondrus and Yves Pigneur at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland that brings some new insights to an examination of the mobile payment market (PDF).
Read the orginal post: PaymentsNews
