RIM, Apple, Microsoft All Taking A Swipe At NFC Mobile Payment Technology
As the Black Friday shopping opportunities continue to pile up, the mentions of mobile payment services get ever more frequent, too: in just… Read more »
45 Carriers Endorse Mobile Payment Standard, But Will It Make A Difference?
Near-field communications (NFC) is far from being a standard in mobile payments, but the wave-and-pay technology may have gotten its biggest… Read more »
The NFC Dance: One Step Closer With PayPal; One Step Further With Square
We are still far from seeing simple, wave-and-pay NFC as a ubiquitous technology for mobile payments, and even further from seeing consumers… Read more »
Nokia To Chop 1,300 People From Its Navteq Mapping/Commerce Division
No one ever said turnarounds were easy, and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) — currently the world’s largest handset maker — is one big ship. Today the c… Read more »
Update: Google Buys Groupon Clone And Launches Wallet In Quest For Commerce
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) at the moment gets the vast majority of its revenues from its huge advertising business, but today we saw two examples o… Read more »
UK Mobile Payments JV Hits Rocks Before It’s Started: Three Appeals To EU
photo: Perras1d, Flickr
Operator partnerships for services are notoriously hard to get right: and it looks like the mobile payments and advertising joint venture be… Read more »
Isis May Get $100M, But What Is The Future Of Its Mobile Technology?
Near Field Communications with mobile devices is still far from being a mainstream technology, and there have been precious few examples of… Read more »
PayPal Demos Android-Based NFC Mobile Payment System
There aren’t a lot of phones on the market which can serve as digital currency, but PayPal demonstrated Wednesday how its users will be able… Read more »
Updated: UK Mobile Carriers Team Up For M-Payments Push
Big news today in the world of mobile payments: the three largest operators in the UK have announced a joint venture to offer mobile wallet… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-26-11: Google Sprint NFC; Chinese Android; O2; New Fund
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: more details spill about Google’s not-so-secret mobile wallet launch today; worrying stat… Read more »
Reports: Google’s Mobile Payments Strategy Is Ready For The Bill
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is finally ready to articulate its mobile-payments strategy at an event Thursday in New York, according to several repor… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-20-11: More Apple Cloud; NFC UK; iPhone China; WP7 Verizon
photo: Corbis / Vigfus Birgisson
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) files patents that point to a cloud service; two UK operators launch… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-06-11: Sony Ericsson/Facebook; T-Mobile; Visa; JiWire
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) updates its Xperia mini devices, and adds a “Fac… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 03-28-11: Apple WWDC; AmEx; Nokia; Google Tablet?
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) announces the dates for its developers’ conference; American Express… Read more »
One Setback For NFC: Apple May Not Put It In The Next iPhone
We’ve seen some significant advances made in the mobile money game in the last several months, but some news today underscored how this is s… Read more »
Video: Orange On NFC, Own-Brand Tablets, And Getting Nokiasoft Leverage
Sometimes being the early mover in technology doesn’t always make you the winner– just look at when Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GO… Read more »
Orange Finally Gives Green Light For NFC In The UK
Looks like it is all coming together for mobile NFC, the technology that lets people buy things by simply waving a mobile handset at a point… Read more »
What Does Apple Have Up Its Sleeve For The iPhone 5?
All those new Android devices, jumped up with NFC and LTE capabilities, are getting Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) fans very hungry for news about what… Read more »
Telefonica, Orange, Verizon Hope To Win The Next Round In Mobile Content
photo: Claudio Gennari
The smartphone revolution, as led by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), has given us a whole new way to consume mobile content, in the form of apps. The pr… Read more »
Google’s Zetawire Purchase, And Adding The Magic Touch To NFC
One more acquisition for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) made public this week: the search, mobile and advertising giant has added NFC company Zetawire… Read more »
