May 06, 2010
The Morning After
PayPal’s Efforts to Capture Payments ShareThree announcements over the last week highlight PayPal’s moves to take a big share of the payments market. Will the Apple Fall Far From...
May 04, 2010
ViVOtech on Why Contactless Will Thrive
In this exclusive NEXTcast interview Mohammad Khan sat down in the Briefing Room hot seat to discuss the 5 burning questions on NFC and Contactless. There have been many factors...
May 04, 2010
The Race to Own Mobile Commerce
Apple and Google are off to the races in owning commerce on the mobile phones as recent transactions and announcements clearly show. Here’s a running recap … Apple bought mobile...
April 30, 2010
NFC Déjà vu all Over Again
There was big news yesterday out of the world of NFC and contactless. A collaborative effort between Inside Contactless, Sagem Orga and TazTag has produced a brand new NFC payments...
April 30, 2010
Lots Of Talk About NFC Payments, Little Progress
The hardware works, and consumers worldwide think it’s a cool idea. Still, near-field communication chips have made about zero progress morphing mobile phones into contactless payment tools. Longtime financial industry...
April 30, 2010
NFC: Past, Present and Future
The announcement by the GSMA and its partners of another NFC demonstration pilot highlights how Near Field Communication is caught in the “trough of disillusionment.” Commerce innovators shouldn’t despair, the...
April 30, 2010
NFC & Contactless
Will Google Wallet Ignite mPayments? PYMNTS Readers Weigh InGoogle’s announcement of its NFC-mobile payments scheme last month sparked intense interest from payments pundits. But will the Google Wallet do the...
April 29, 2010
The Card Networks: Stealthy Tigers or Deer in the Headlights?
The traditional card networks are great at what they do and they’ve only gotten better over time. Transactions occur lickety-split over their networks. They provide valuable services to merchants and...
April 22, 2010
NFC Déjà vu all Over Again
There was big news yesterday out of the world of NFC and contactless. A collaborative effort between Inside Contactless, Sagem Orga and TazTag has produced a brand new NFC payments...