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 …
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How the New ‘Google Wallet’ Mobile Payment System Works
As rumored, Google has officially announced its new mobile payment system. The platform is called “Google Wallet” and is a joint venture between Google, MasterCard, Sprint and security company First Data.
The system is currently available on just a single phone—the Nexus S 4G from Sprint—and works with MasterCard’s “PayPass” …
Google Mobile Payments: Don’t Get Too Excited Yet
All bets are on Google launching a mobile payment platform with Sprint on Thursday, allowing people to pay for goods and services with their smartphones.
The mobile payment concept, which relies on technology called near-field communications (NFC) embedded in smartphones, has a lot of potential. In the long haul, it may eventually …
Google to Partner with Sprint for Mobile Payments on Thursday?
Bloomberg is reporting that Google and Sprint will be launching a contact-less payment system this Thursday based on near-field communication, or NFC, technology.
Google’s Nexus S 4G handset that’s available from Sprint already has NFC technology built into it, so most of the heavy lifting needs to be done on the retail side with …
Contactless Cell Phone Payment System Goes Live in U.K.
The U.K.’s first cell phone contactless payment system went live today.
The launch is the result of a co-operative effort by a lot of different companies.
The network operator is Orange, the banking is coming from Barclaycard‘s QuickTap, and the hardware is a cheap-and-cheerful Samsung Tocco Lite.
QuickTap purchases are limited …
Wireless Carriers Reportedly Kill ‘Isis’ Pay-by-Phone Partnership
It seems that Visa, MasterCard and American Express are safe… FOR NOW!
Back in November, a fresh-faced youngster (yours truly) brought you news of a joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon known as “Isis.”
The idea was that these three mobile companies would offer pay-by-phone features using near-field communication …
Is This the Beginning of the End for QR?
QR, is already time to say goodbye? We hardly knew you!
If Google’s recent actions are any indicator, then QR codes — those “Quick Read” matrix barcodes you see on websites, products, and posters — might be going the way of the dinosaur. Last week, all QR codes mysteriously vanished from the Google Places Dashboard. Must be a …
Microsoft Said to Offer Mobile Payment System Too
It’s clear that Microsoft doesn’t want to be left behind. Reports are saying that the company is jumping on the bandwagon, along with Google and Apple to develop a mobile payment system.
According to Bloomberg sources, the first Windows 7 phones to sport the new devices would be released later this year. It’s an effort to close …
Google Plans to Turn Your Android Phone into an Electronic Wallet
In the future, you better not lose your Android phone. Google is teaming up with MasterCard and Citigroup to turn your Android phone into a portable wallet, allowing you to pay for purchases simply by waving your phone around.
It would basically enable Citigroup credit and debit cardholders to pay for purchases easily using NFC …
Use Your Phone to Pay for That Dress, Courtesy Google
You’re wrapping up dinner at your favorite restaurant, but how do you reply to the maître d’ who hands you the bill and asks “paper, plastic, or semiconductor”?
With your phone, of course, and that’s just what Google’s hoping you’ll do when its new mobile payment service goes live sometime during the next four months, according to …
Apple Prepping Pay-By-Phone Chip For New iPhone This Year?
You’ll be hearing a lot more about NFC—near field communication—this year, as more and more cell phone manufacturers add NFC chips to their handsets. It’s basically a way to use your phone at a tap-to-pay credit card machine used by various retail stores. You may already have tap-to-pay built into one or more of your debit or credit …
AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Want Phones to Replace Credit Cards
Three of the nation’s four major wireless companies are betting big on the idea that we’ll use our cell phones instead of our credit cards. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have jointly announced “Isis,” and plan to roll the service out to merchants over the next year and a half.
Isis will use near-field communication (NFC) chips built into …