Google and the mobile carriers have long been at odds over mobile payments, but faced with the runaway success of Apple Pay, the two rivals have become friends. AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile… Read more »
It took a while for the U.S. carriers to roll out their Softcard mobile payments and even longer for the digital wallet to work with Windows Phone. With the right handset… 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 »
Best Buy and 7-Eleven are shutting down NFC at their registers. Are they saving themselves the expense of running a smartphone payments infrastructure no one is yet using, or are they… Read more »
Visa and MasterCard this week threw their backing behind Google’s Host Card Emulation feature, which is aimed at enabling the app run even through carriers that have previously blocked it. Support… Read more »
The U.S. accounts for a disproportionately high amount of global credit card fraud. For a country with such technological innovation, we’re way behind the times and it’s costing us. This market… Read more »
“Google Wallet 2.0″ is live but it’s not from Google. Instead, Isis is the newest digital wallet payment program and it’s now live. You’ll need a phone on Verizon, T-Mobile or… Read more »
Three proposed acquisitions led the news in the third quarter of 2013. Meanwhile, Apple Inc. released two new iPhones and, just as importantly, gave the iOS 7 a major makeover. Read more »
NFC is unlikely to ever become the default technology for mobile payments that many have envisioned. But its penetration in smartphones is growing substantially, and it should prove a useful tool… Read more »