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Why Smartphones Won’t Be Replacing Wallets Anytime Soon
While there are some technological and organizational hurdles holding back the advent of mobile payments, there’s another, more basic problem that’s likely to slow the rise of the smartphone wallet.
via Smartphones Unlikely to Replace Wallets, Cash Anytime Soon | Moneyland | TIME.com.
Wallet, Wallet Everywhere: Making Sense of the Mobile Payment Wars
There’s a cold war going on in the technology world. As smartphones become ubiquitous and online shopping grows, tech companies and payment companies are arming themselves for battle over how people pay for things.
Their …
Sprint to Get Galaxy Nexus on April 22 for $200
Google’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone is coming to Sprint soon, with an April 22 release date and a price of $200 with a two-year contract.
As with Google’s previous Nexus phones, the Galaxy Nexus runs an unmodified version of …
Google Wallet Suspends Prepaid Cards After Blog Reveals Easy Hack
Fresh off bad news concerning the vulnerability of rooted Android phones, Google Wallet is trying to douse another fire. Last week, blog The Smartphone Champ reportedly found a major flaw in Google Wallet’s prepaid cards — a …
Google Wallet Hack Shows NFC Payments Still Aren’t Secure
You probably won’t see the Wallet Cracker app in the Android Market anytime soon. That’s not because it doesn’t work; it actually works perfectly, which is the problem.
In a video posted by security firm Zvelo, the program …
Looking Forward to 2012: The Continued Demise of Cash
How mobile payments, NFC and person-to-person apps will change the way that people pay each other in the coming year.
Google Wallet Goes Live, Looks to Add Visa, American Express and Discover
It’s finally arrived as expected. In a tweet and a blog post that went live just a few minutes ago, Google announced that their new Wallet system is finally available for the masses (and by masses we mean owners of the Sprint Nexus S 4G).
The app will be rolled out via an over-the-air update and will allow users to tap and pay at over
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Google Wallet Likely to Be Announced Today
According to a document circulating to partners, Google Wallet is likely to be announced at some point today.
Google Wallet is an app that gives smartphone owners the ability to “make your phone your wallet”—at least if you own Sprint’s Nexus S 4G, the only NFC-enabled Android phone available for the service’s limited launch here in …
A Wallet-less Future? Verizon Partners with Payfone for Mobile Payments
Verizon Wireless is teaming up with mobile transaction service Payfone to bring a new mobile payment system to customers. The service will work across smartphones, tablets and PCs, and will charge purchases to participating customers’ Verizon statements or through their usual bank accounts, supplementing a partnership with mobile wallet …
PayPal, eBay: Not So Fast, Google Wallet, You’re Sued!
From launch day press coverage bonanza to dismal other-shoe-drops lawsuit, it looks like Google Wallet may have some splainin’ to do. Or at least PayPal and eBay think it does.
Google took the wraps off its new mobile e-payment service yesterday, a service that promises to let you abandon plastic cards and just use your smartphone …
Google Wallet Is Coming. Don’t Be Afraid.
At last, Google has revealed its plans to slowly replace credit cards with cell phones in a new initiative called Google Wallet. The service will allow Nexus S 4G owners to buy stuff by touching their phones to Mastercard PayPass kiosks at participating retailers in select cities. If that sounds scary to you, it shouldn’t. Here’s …