Articles in the Discussions Category
Migration from cards to mobile phones with NFCPosted in Academia, Discussions, Featured, My Research, NFC on 8 November 2006
Some analysts think that there might be a shift to mobile phones for advanced payments.
Posted in Discussions, General, Japan, Korea on 25 May 2006
A short discussion about why Japan and South Korea are leaders in contactless payments.
Payments News
Posted in Discussions, France, Germany, Platforms, Videos on 25 May 2006
Video en français qui parle de la solution de paiement mobile Crandy offerte par NCS. Cet interview est très intéressant et recommendé pour les gens qui s’intéressent à ce qu’il se passe en France et Allemagne.
- Video sur le blog de Jean Michel Billaut
- Petite news sur Services Mobiles
- Site de Crandy
Posted in Discussions, Switzerland on 14 May 2006
William Turler of Largeur.com reported that Sunrise is currently negociating with several partners to launch a mobile payment scheme. The other mobile network operators do not want to comment on possible collaborations with financial institutions.
To read more:
- Largeur.com
Posted in Discussions, General, NFC, Platforms on 8 May 2006
Credit card companies see the emerging ‘near-field communications’ technology revolutionizing retail commerce. The emergence of cell phone-based electronic wallets will certainly impact vending.
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- AMonline.com
- Payments News
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 China, Discussions, General, Platforms, RFID, Statistics on 3 May 2006
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Thad Rueter from Card Technology reports interesting facts about contactless payment schemes deployed in the public transport industry. Moreover, some recent statistics are given about the Octopus card in Hong Kong. There is also a discussion about the interest of the banks to work with transit companies.
To read more about it:
- Card Technology
Posted in Discussions, Japan, NFC, Platforms, RFID on 1 May 2006
Yukako Ono writes for Japan’s Asahi.com about NTT DoCoMo’s new DCMX contactless mobile payment service phones containing Sony Corp.’s Felica contactless IC chip.
More at: Payments News
Original source: asahi.com
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.
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- Payments News
- San Francisco Chronicle
Posted in Discussions, Japan, Korea, NFC, Reports on 11 April 2006
From Payments News:
Mercator Advisory Group has announced its latest research report - Predicting Mobile Payment Success in Asia - that explores the relationship between technology, payments, and strategy, as it relates to the success of mobile commerce markets in Asia.
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- Payments News
- Mercator
Posted in Discussions, General, NFC, Platforms on 7 April 2006
Mobey Forum has completed an extensive evaluation on the future development of the mobile
financial services business ecosystem (pdf)
