Articles in the USA Category
Posted in Platforms, USA, Videos on 25 May 2006
This is a short video of CBS. They briefly present Text-Pay-Me, Obo-pay, and PayPal Mobile.
Article and video
Posted in Discussions, NFC, Reports, SMS, USA on 8 May 2006
Mercator Advisory Group has announced a new report: “Mobile Payments In The United States: SMS and NFC Implementations Enter the Market”.
Mobile Payments In The United States examines the two most relevant mobile payment technologies, NFC and SMS, in the United States market. Using the recent activity as a guide, the report discusses the mobile payment [...]
Posted in Platforms, RFID, Statistics, USA on 7 May 2006
Cathleen Conforti, a senior vice president at MasterCard and PayPass global product manager, reports some promising first results of the introduction of PayPass.
Customers are using their contactless MasterCard PayPass as intended, with over 60% of transactions under $25, suggesting consumers are keeping their cash in their wallets and paying instead with the tap-and-go cards.
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Consumers using [...]
Posted in Platforms, RFID, Statistics, USA on 2 May 2006
From Payments News:
MasterCard has announced updated numbers for PayPass cards and acceptance locations saying that, to date, “approximately seven million PayPass cards and devices have been issued to consumers and PayPass is now accepted at approximately 30,000 merchant locations around the world.”
To read more about it:
- Payments News
- Yahoo Finance
Posted in USA on 27 April 2006
Another mobile payment scheme launched in the US.
To read more about it:
- Payments News
- Cyphermint
- PrimeZone
- Official website of PayCash Mobile
Posted in NFC, Platforms, SMS, USA on 14 April 2006
From Business Wire:
MobileLime(R), the first U.S.-based company to turn the mobile phone into a marketing, loyalty and payment device, today announced that its Mobile Wallet was selected as the 1st place winner of the Wireless Emerging Technologies Award at CTIA WIRELESS 2006 for the Consumer Messaging Application (SMS/MMS) category.
Read more:
- Business Wire
- Payments News
Posted in Discussions, NFC, USA on 11 April 2006
From Payments News:
Ryan Kim reports for the San Francisco Chronicle on last week’s CTIA Wireless 2006 conference and the mobile payments initiatives launched by PayPal and Obopay as well as trials underway exploring the use of near-field communication (NFC) chips embedded in cell phones.
Read more:
- Payments News
- San Francisco Chronicle
Posted in NFC, Platforms, USA on 10 April 2006
From the RFID Journal:
A usability test performed by Philips showed that U.S. residents might embrace NFC, but an ABI Research report says the technology needs a stronger, more uniform infrastructure
To read more: RFID Journal
Related news: Payments News
Posted in Platforms, RFID, USA on 7 April 2006
The solution will make the management of contactless payments with mobile phones secure, economical and flexible for participating financial institutions as the new process eliminates the time consuming need to “manually” personalize mobile handsets individually, which has been the method used for mobile payment trials until now.
Read more:
- BusinessWire
- Payments News
Posted in Platforms, SMS, USA on 7 April 2006
Payments News made a table to compare the current mobile schemes in the US.
Table of comparison
Posted in Platforms, USA on 7 April 2006
PayPal Mobile Announced
PayPal Mobile - Text to Buy and Text to Give Update
PayPal Mobile - Text to Buy and Text to Give Update
Bravo Deal With PayPal Mobile
Comparing PayPal Mobile, Obopay and TextPayMe
PayPal Releases Mobile Payment Service
