Articles in the Platforms Category
Posted in General, NFC, Platforms on 12 June 2006
JCB has announced it s working together with “seven world-class players in payment systems, terminals, NFC and mobile technology” to launch a pilot project using an NFC contactless credit payment scheme this autumn in Amsterdam.
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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, 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, 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 Germany, Platforms, UK on 7 May 2006
Mobile payments are moving in the UK and Germany.
LUUP, the first payment system specifically for mobiles, launches today in both the UK and Germany. LUUP (called LUUPAY in Germany) allows consumers to use their mobile phone like a wallet to shop with retailers or send and receive money on a person-to-person basis - with cash, [...]
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 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 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.”
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- Payments News
- Yahoo Finance
Posted in Platforms, RFID, Ticketing, UK on 2 May 2006
Rhys Blakely (Times online) explains that the Transport for London (TfL) have ambitious plans to extend the use of their Oyster card to other types of purchases (small items such as newspapers).
However, they “admitted that technical and financial partners had not yet provided an acceptable blueprint that would make the system acceptable to retailers without [...]
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 Korea, Platforms, RFID on 1 May 2006
South Korea’s major mobile telcos plan to roll out contactless payment to their subscribers and intend to later put the payment application on SIM card.
Read more at: Card Technology
Also on: Payments News
