MPW ISSUE 102 July 12 2007
News
KTF launches USIM-based contactless credit-card
KTF has launched a commercial service of USIM-based (Universal SIM card) contactless credit card payment in partnership with LG card. Via this service, credit card information is downloaded into the USIM ...
Read More Taiwanese PayPass trial a success
MasterCard, which launched a new payment solution in Taiwan in Q2 2007, says that the system has been heavily praised by the companies backing the test.
Read More Orange announces commercial launch of mobile contactless
Orange France says that it will launch the first mobile contactless services, based on NFC technology, in Bordeaux in early 2008. The announcement was made in collaboration with several partners, which ...
Read More French experiment with ‘TreiZEN’
The Bouches-du-Rhône region and the cities of Aubagne and Etoile have jointly launched a trial for users of the public transport system under the name ‘TreiZEN’. With TreiZEN commuters can use their mobile ...
Read More Chongqing Commercial Bank rolls out NFC
Chongqing Commercial Bank and mobile network operator Chongqing Mobile in China are launching something which has oddly been described as ‘the first commercial project putting contactless stickers on ...
Read More Beijing Olympics to issue 7m contactless tickets
Seven million tickets for the 2008 Beijing Olympics will be embedded with RFID chips and printed with specialty ink in a bid to curb fakes, according to Bloomberg. As the mad scramble for the 2008 Beijing ...
Read More Slippery Rock University rolls out contactless
Heartland Payment Systems has announced it has been selected by Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania to deliver the convenience and security of contactless payments by mobile phone to students and ...
Read More Canada begins migration to PayPass
McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada plans to accept two new payment options which will give its customers a convenient alternative to cash. As early as 2008, McDonald’s will begin installing MasterCard PayPass ...
Read More Future of m-payment hinges on bank and mobile operator collaboration - Atos Origin White Paper
Banks and mobile operators must collaborate to secure the long-term future of m-payment, according to a new white paper from Atos Origin, Breakthroughs in the European Mobile Payments Market. Only through ...
Read More Voda customers to have a 'direct click' to their finances
Vodafone UK customers now have access to their finances, free of charge until end-2007, directly from the Vodafone internet on their mobile, over the MONILINK mobile banking network.
Read More UK m-ticketing service with Atos Origin
Go North East has named a partnership between Atos Origin and Swiftpass Digital as its preferred supplier to manage a new mobile ticketing service which will make paper ticketing a thing of the past. ...
Read More M-payments to languish until chips embedded in the mobile
In its latest Mobile Payments forecast report, Javelin Strategy & Research reveals how contactless cards and mobile phones will function together to change the way Americans and retailers conduct everyday ...
Read More M-payments to generate $22bn by 2011
Juniper Research predicts that P2P fund transfers and mobile payments in the developing world, together with the commercialization in 2009 of NFC based m-payments will generate transactions worth approximately ...
Read More Mobile transfers to generate $8bn in operator revenues by 2012
By enabling subscribers to send and receive money using their mobile phones, mobile operators have the opportunity to bring local banking services to millions of people around the world. These services ...
Read More Internet payments pioneer launches Voice Pay
WorldPay founder Nick Ogden has launched Voice Pay, the world's first voice-verified payment processing system, which he hopes will change the way that mobile and internet payments are conducted.
Read More Casio and DoCoMo JV to provide digital payment systems
Casio Computer and NTT DoCoMo have agreed to form a joint venture company to provide digital payment systems, mainly for DoCoMo's ‘iD’ mobile credit-card platform, and related customer relationship management ...
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Call for new regulatory framework in developing countries
A new regulatory framework is needed to encourage financial transactions by mobile phones and transform access to financial services in developing countries, claims a new policy report ‘The Transformational ...
Read More Vendor Zone
dotMobi offers ‘City.mobi’ names
dotMobi, the company behind .mobi - the first and only internet address designed specifically for mobile phones - says it is making approximately 650 city names available to city governments.
Read More NFC Forum begins work on HCI spec
The NFC Forum has begun work to develop a specification for a Host Controller Interface (HCI) between NFC contactless controllers and electronic devices’ application processors. The HCI specification ...
Read More V-Cash enabling India m-payments
India's E3India is researching and planning on releasing a new mobile-commerce product, V-Cash, to enable payments to vendors directly through mobile phones. The platform works with the SIM card already ...
Read More Sybase 365 Indian SMS deal
Sybase 365 has announced its partnership with Just Dial Services, India’s premier telephone search company, to offer SMS to mobile subscribers across more than 40 cities in India.
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BBVA first in Europe to launch Visa Mobile payments application
BBVA has recently launched the first mobile NFC payments initiative in Madrid, Spain under a commercial environment.
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