Articles tagged with: Mobile Payments and Smart Card

Contactless Smart Card Market Expected to Weather the Storm Caused by Economic Uncertainties

With Asia Pacific being a highly diverse geographic region with dissimilar market conditions, participants in the contactless smart card market should be prepared for varied reactions to the economic downturn. While countries that have not yet achieved mass deployment of contactless smart cards could experience further delays, more advanced countries such as Japan and South Korea that possess strong contactless infrastructure and high penetration rates are unlikely to slow down drastically.  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

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Portable credit card swipe machine ported to CDMA2000

VeriFone, the electronic payment solutions developer has lunched a CDMA2000 1X based payment terminal. This new capability allows traditional transactions to be completed in less than 3 seconds, considerably faster than the 20 plus seconds for a regular debit or credit transaction over a wireless link. This solution expands the reach of payments to taxis, delivery companies, mobile kiosks, table payments, and traditional retails outlets. more

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