Wednesday, August 29, 2012

37 "Mobile Payment" News Stories for August 29th, 2012

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Isis Mobile-Payment System to Debut in September After Delays
Bloomberg
Isis, the mobile-payment joint venture backed by AT&T Inc. (T), Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA Inc., is on track for a debut in September, following months of delays and a change in strategy last year. VeriFone Systems Inc. (PAY), a maker of payment ...
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Security can still make or break mobile-payment systems
Computerworld (blog)
My observations are hardly scientific (and back in December, Starbucks claimed that 26 million transactions had been conducted using its mobile-payment app, making it the largest such program in the U.S.), but I rarely see other Starbucks customers ...
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VeriFone opens Sail payment platform to developers
GigaOM
VeriFone is opening up its Sail mobile payment service to developers with a new developer portal. That will allow developers to easily add Sail to their mobile apps. But it will also be a way for developers to offer their services to Sail's business ...
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Freeport Capital Inc. (FAS: CNSX) Hybrid and StepOne Systems launch joint ...
Embedded.com
MONTREAL, Aug. 29, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - (Freeport Capital FAS: CNSX), Hybrid PayTech a leader in mobile payment innovation announced its joint solution partnership with StepOne Systems, a long-time provider of mobile in-store enterprise applications.
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Is The McDonald's Franchise Going Mobile?
Small Business News from Gaebler.com
McDonald's franchise reportedly testing mobile payment app that will enable customers to pay for fast food purchases with PayPal. The race for mobile payment options is heating up as McDonald's, the world's largest restaurant chain, has been reported ...
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Small Business News from Gaebler.com
Isis mobile payment system primed for September launch, supported devices ...
Engadget
Isis mobile payment system primed for September launch, supported devices revealed. By Zachary Lutz posted Aug 28th 2012 8:47PM. Isis mobile payment system primed for September launch in Austin and Salt Lake City. You've known it was coming, but ...
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AirPay Starts Small, Seeks Feedback on New Mobile Payment System
Xconomy
I stopped by the launch party late yesterday for AirPay, an early stage startup incubating in San Diego's Ansir Innovation Center that has been developing a mobile payment system with social media features. "I have friends who say we're insane," says ...
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Swedish company Seamless adds P2P feature to its mobile payment tool
Mobile Payments Today
Seamless, a Swedish provider of payment solutions, announced it's adding person-to-person payment functionality to SEQR, its QR code-based mobile payment product. The new features will let users make payments to private individuals directly into their ...
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Could Using Mobile Wallets Land You in Jail?
EcommerceBytes (blog)
Could using a mobile payment checkout system land you in jail? That's what one teenager said happened to him at the Apple store when he used the store's mobile app EasyPay option on his phone. This article in MacWorld is eye-opening for anyone who ...
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EcommerceBytes (blog)
eZeeCLOUD partners with atom technologies to facilitate payments over Web ...
Equity Bulls
... into a partnership with atom technologiestm (atom), an enterprise promoted by Financial Technologies India Ltd. a subsidiary of Financial Technologies (India) Limited (NSE: FINANTECH, BSE: FINTECH), for deploying atom's web, IVR and mobile payment ...
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MasterCard Embarks on Mobile Payment Partnership with UK Telco
Banktech
MasterCard announced today it is partnering with U.K. mobile operator Everything Everywhere on a mobile payments partnership. The five-year deal involves developing mobile and digital payment solutions for Everything Everywhere's 27 million U.K. ...
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Revolutionary Technology & The Transformative Effect On Currency
ReadWriteWeb
The winners of the mobile payment wars will be the companies that make it easiest for consumers and retailers to use smartphones for payment while also adding the most value. Ultimately, the smartphone will be the wallet. Apps that meet the ...
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BYNDL attends to unattended retail
Mobile Payments Today
Unattended retail, incorporating remote, self-service, purchases from mobile applications, kiosks, vending units and even digital signage, is already on the rise. The association representing the unattended retail industry, the National Automatic ...
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Isis To Launch in September
The Droid Guy
Some time ago, it was reported that AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA Inc. have teamed up for a mobile payment service called Isis. It had been originally scheduled for launching during the first half of this year. However, there had been delays ...
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Google Wallet to challenge iPhone Passbook through geo-location, transit
TechRadar UK
Google Wallet's head of product management, Robin Dua, spoke at a developers Q&A session about how the company will open up Google Wallet to information beyond mobile payment details and credit card numbers. "We want to create a wallet that ...
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TechRadar UK
MasterCard to create pre-paid mobile payment solution for Everything Everywhere
The Fonecast
Payment processing business MasterCard has announced a five-year partnership that'll see it working on mobile and digital payment solutions for Everything Everywhere's UK customers. The two companies are already planning a co-branded pre-paid ...
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Signs point to September launch for Isis
Mobile Payments Today
And all signs are pointing to Isis finally launching a working mobile payment application sometime soon. The first clue comes via tech site Engadget. Engadget noticed that a T-Mobile update to Samsung Galaxy S II phones includes an improvement called ...
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Consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa Ready for Next Step in M-commerce
MENAFN.COM
Consumers tell Ericsson researchers that they use mobile payment services for person-to-person transfers and purchasing airtime on their mobile subscriptions, and that they like the convenience of accessing money everywhere and at anytime, regardless ...
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UVLH1 Update On T-Mobile Galaxy S II Makes It The First Isis-Ready Phone - Is ...
Android Police
It's clear that the carriers wish for Isis to become the de facto mobile payment standard here in the US, and they certainly seem to have the advantage right now, but it's a market in which competitors are springing up rapidly. A consortium of ...
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USA Technologies Adds Web Services to its Technology Portfolio
PYMNTS.com
... self-serve retailing industries, today announced the availability of QuickConnect™--a Web service designed to make it easier for developers and OEMs in the unattended retail and mobile payment acceptance space to interface with USAT's ...
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ISIS mobile wallet set to launch in September, according to VeriFone CEO
The Verge
The ISIS mobile payment solution has been a long time coming, but it appears to be ready for a September launch after months of uncertainty. Bloomberg spoke with VeriFone CEO Doug Bergeron, who confirmed plans for an introduction in Salt Lake City and ...
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Small T-Mobile Galaxy S II Update Brings Big Feature
Gotta Be Mobile
T-Mobile's Galaxy S II is now apparently the only device on the market that has support for the ISIS mobile payment service, a service that will soon be in direct competition with Google Wallet. It doesn't appear that an ISIS application is on board ...
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Will Apple Soon Enter the Digital Wallet Market?
Forbes
The mobile wallet industry will also need to deal with other security concerns. According to a study by Market Strategies International, more than 6 of 10 consumers are concerned that mobile payment solutions could jeopardize their financial and/or ...
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ISIS coming in September to Galaxy S3, Galaxy S2, HTC One X, Amaze 4G ...
Android Authority
It now looks like we have confirmation that the ISIS mobile payment project developed by Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile will be available to interested consumers in September. According to CNET, Doug Bergeron, CEO of Verifone, "which makes the payment ...
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Android Authority
PDC4U Announces Mobile Optimized Payment Portal
PR Web (press release)
Optimizing the public facing payment portal and recognizing mobile devices, allowed PDC4U's programmers to develop a simple three-step mobile payment portal for both credit cards and checks. The clients of PDC4U now have the ability, through the cloud ...
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T-Mobile's Galaxy S2 receiving minor software update via Samsung Kies
Phandroid.com
ISIS is the mobile payment coalition that T-Mobile finds itself a member of, but the service has yet to be implemented on a wide scale. It's unclear how this software affects that. The software update is only available via Samsung Kies with no plans to ...
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Report: Isis to launch service in September
Fiercemobilecontent
Initially, Isis was intended to go head-to-head with mobile payment processors like Visa and MasterCard. however, in May 2011 Isis said it would instead open its system to all interested credit issuers and banks, aligning its technology with the ...
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Google opening Wallet to IDs, boarding passes to rival Apple's Passbook
Fiercemobilecontent
Apple has not yet announced Passbook-enabled mobile payment features, although leaked photos indicate the next edition of the iPhone likely will introduce Near Field Communications support, which would enable a tap-and-pay component. First introduced ...
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T-Mobile Galaxy S II update brings Isis support to battle Google Wallet
Android Community
This is making the device the first Isis ready smartphone to try the new mobile payment solution to take on Google Wallet. We're not sure if the update actually brings Isis to the device as a pre-installed app, or just makes it ready for usage. Either ...
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Android Community

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Isis Mobile Wallet system to launch fully next Month | AndroidSPIN
By Stormy Beach
The app was missing, but the groundwork for it to roll out was installed. We have known that ISIS, the carrier backed mobile payment system like Google Wallet, was supposed to land this summer. In my book summer ends when school starts ...
AndroidSPIN
T-Mobile Galaxy S II update makes it first Isis ready phone ...
By Jeff Causey
Isis is a mobile payment system similar to Google Wallet. Using NFC, users can make payments at retailers by simply tapping their phones on a point of sale terminal. At the retailer end, Verifone Systems is working on terminals to be deployed ...
Android News, Rumours, and Updates
How "Machine to Machine" and "Cloud Computing" Figure into ...
By Gary Kim
Separately, lots of companies and developers are working on mobile wallets, mobile payment systems and mobile commerce systems that aim to glean real-time intelligence about potential customers and shoppers, before, during and after a ...
IP Carrier
TIO Networks Corp » TIO Networks Launches TIO Connect to ...
By Robert Hartman
With TIO Connect, utility, telecommunications, cable, finance and other billers can quickly launch services to enable consumers to pay bills at more than 60,000 self-serve kiosks and over-the-counter locations, or anytime via its mobile payment ...
TIO Networks Corp
T-Mobile Galaxy S II update makes it first Isis ready phone | Android ...
By Jeff Causey - talkandroid.com
Isis is a mobile payment system similar to Google Wallet. Using NFC, users can make payments at retailers by simply tapping th… Continue Reading Here T-Mobile Galaxy S II update makes it first Isis ready phone. Jeff Causey – talkandroid.
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Contactless Intelligence News Feed – Week 35 | Contactless ...
By krowne
... Dunkin' Donuts mobile payment app debuts http://bit.ly/OrTewJ; PayPal could heat up mobile payments race if McDonald's test pays off http://reut.rs/OrT9cG; Proxama's comment on Google's Cloud-based wallet approach http://bit.ly/RyoJdr ...
Contactless Intelligence
Benefits of Mobile Payments for Consumers – Guest Post | Top ...
By Mitch Mitchell
Many mobile payment apps are designed with special security and encryption features to deter "spoofers" and fraudsters. The financial community is well aware of the cost of fraud both to them and their consumers, so they've integrated ...
Top Finance Blog
Microsoft joins startups in building the new app infrastructure stack ...
By Stacey Higginbotham
1344 Readers Right Now. Just posted: VeriFone opens Sail payment platform to developers. VeriFone is opening up its Sail mobile payment service to developers with a new developer portal. That.
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