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 [...]

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.
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From ePaynews.com:
During 2006, Visa Europe is to pilot contactless payments in several EMV card-using countries, including the UK, to leverage EMV infrastructure with a view to commercial roll-outs in 2007. To support these pilots, merchants in Europe will have to add contactless card readers to their EMV-based POS infrastructure and encourage customers to use contactless [...]

Payments News made a table to compare the current mobile schemes in the US.
Table of comparison

Obopay just announced their new comprehensive U.S. mobile payment scheme.
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PayPal just introduced a SMS-based mobile payment scheme.
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- En français: Services Mobiles

Des badges péages virtuels pour autoroute peuvent être achetés par mobile en envoyant un SMS, ce service est à la disposition des abonnés des opérateurs mobiles Pannon et T-Mobile en Hongrie.Valable quatre jours, l’insigne D1 peut être acheté facilement de n’importe quel endroit et en envoyant un SMS. Source cellular-news.com
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Services Mobiles a publié une nouvelle concernant une nouvelle plateforme pour des Premium SMS.
Echovox a lancé SMSconnect.com, c’est un portail pour paramétrer, installer et facturer des sonneries, du contenu, des blogs via du sms premium. La plate-forme d’Echovox permet de délivrer un service mobile simple, dans les pays suivants en s’affranchissant des nombreux standards existant [...]

There is a trial in Mumbai, India to test SMS local train tickets.
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Un nouveau système de paiement par mobile vient d’être lancé avec le service TextPayMe qui permet à ses utilisateurs d’envoyer de l’argent via SMS.
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