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Articles tagged with: Mobile Payments
Gemalto Expands Mobile Banking Availabilty
Gemalto says that it is planning to expand the availability of its mobile banking services to markets in South Asia. The firm has been working with India-based technology partner mChek since last September to offer mobile banking services with telecom operators in India and Sri Lanka. more
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Sybase Buys Mobile Payment Vendor
Sybase has announced that it has acquired privately held, paybox Solutions, a developer of mobile payment solutions for an undisclosed amount. Sybase says that it will now provide its customers with a full suite of mobile payment solutions enabling their customers to undertake person-to-person remittances, make payments for goods and services, top-up mobile airtime and pay bills from a mobile device, in both developed and emerging markets. more
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NFC Not an Answer for Mobile Payments, But Alternatives Offer Promise
Once, NFC (Near Field Communication) was the leading contender among technologies that could enable mobile payments. But NFC has developed more slowly than anticipated, and will not offer viable large-scale mobile payment solutions for at least six years. In the mean time three existing technologies - SMS, mobile Internet and downloadable mobile applications - have the potential to deliver what NFC (so far) cannot. more
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Kenyan Operator to Offer Mobile Money Transfers from the UK
Kenya's Safaricom and The Western Union Company are to pilot a cross-border Mobile Money Transfer (MMT) service between the UK and Kenya. This service will enable customers to send cross-border remittances from select locations directly to Safaricom mobile subscribers in Kenya generally in minutes. more
Related Tags: vodafone, safaricom, western-union, m-pesa, mobile-money, Kenya
ViVOtech Provided NFC Provisioning Software for Phones Enabled with Visa payWave
Silicon Valley-based ViVOtech announced today that its provisioning software for Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile payments is being used in the first NFC mobile payment trial in Latin America led by Visa, in Guatemala. This deployment marks Latin AmericaĆ's first NFC-based mobile payment pilot and use of Visa payWave-enabled mobile handsets at hundreds of merchants that have installed the ViVOpay 5000 contactless payment readers in Guatemala. more
Related Tags: nfc, near-field-communication, visa, Guatemala
Mobile Money Transfer and NFC to Account for 50% of the M-Payments Market by 2013
Mobile money transfer and contactless NFC (Near Field Communications) will together account for 50% of the overall mobile payment market globally by 2013, (based on the gross transaction values), according to Juniper Research's new Mobile Payments Study. more
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Visa to Bring Mobile Payment Services to Google Phone
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Visa said on Thursday it will bring mobile payment services to the new G1 smartphone, the first device to use Google's Android operating system. more
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Nokia Teams up with Visa for Mobile Money Trials
Credit card processor, Visa and Nokia have announced plans to deliver Visa payment and payment-related services - including contactless payments, remote payments, money transfer, alerts and notifications - for Nokia phones beginning with the Nokia 6212 Classic, expected to be available starting October 2008. more
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700 Million Mobile Phones to be NFC Enabled Within 5 Years
A new analysis of the NFC mobile payments opportunity forecasts that 700 million mobile subscribers globally will have phones equipped with NFC contactless technology by 2013. NFC will enable users to make payments with their mobile phones for relatively low value purchases (such as refreshments, tickets and food). more
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Visa Expands Mobile Payments Services
Credit card firm, Visa has launched four new programs to deliver payments and services via mobile phones. Two commercial mobile payments programs, in Brazil and Korea, along with two mobile offers and transaction notification pilots in the United States, add to more than a dozen pilot and commercial programs enabled by the Visa mobile platform around the world. more
Related Tags: sim-card, sms, rsa, visa, korea-telecom, smart-card, Brazil