MCX’s long-awaited mobile wallet is now in a few pilot programs, but starting in 2015, it will become available to consumers at some of the biggest retail and restaurant chains in… Read more »
In his Weekly Update, Colin Gibbs, the Gigaom Research curator for mobile, looks at ‘Apple: the tortoise in mobile payments versus the hares’. He looks at the small step of Apple… Read more »
Apple is deliberately laying a solid foundation for a mobile payments business while several competitors who were early to market continue to spin their wheels . Read more »
Political commentator Ronan Farrow says that social networks like Twitter and Facebook should do more to police violent content from terrorist groups — but who gets to draw the line between… Read more »
“If you build it, who will care?” That pretty much sums up the last few years in the mobile payments space, as banks scrambled to remain relevant and mobile carriers tried… Read more »
BlackBerry’s enterprise communications network has been shipping secure email for a decade. Now BlackBerry is using that infrastructure to secure NFC payment data for Canadian mobile carriers and banks. Read more »
Amazon’s Login and Pay service now supports subscription payment processing meaning customers could use their Amazon credentials to pay their monthly mobile bills. The service could wind up being tied to… Read more »
NFC has failed to see any real uptake in most Western markets, and Bluetooth-based technologies like Apple’s iBeacon are suddenly getting a lot of attention. But there are a few reasons… Read more »
During the first quarter of 2014, changes in technology meant new products on the market, new roles in the enterprise, and structural changes for the IT department. Read more »