MPW ISSUE 83 May 31 2006
News
JCB extends contactless QuicPay
JCB says that Japanese restaurant chain Royal Group will be phasing in QuicPay acceptance this year at all Royal Host and Sizzler restaurants nationwide, with 300 locations set to offer the contactless ...
Read More Proximus launches 'M-Pay'
Proximus, the Belgian subsidiary of Vodafone, has launched 'Proximus M-Pay', a new mobile payment system in Belgium for buying digital products online - via mobile and internet - in a fast, safe, user-friendly ...
Read More American Express pilots 'Mobile Offers'
American Express has launched a pilot in the Dallas/Fort Worth area which enables its cardholders to receive discounts from select merchants via their mobile phone in the form of SMS coupons. AmEx says ...
Read More Strategic alliance for RFID
Fujitsu Transaction Solutions and Accelitec have formed a strategic alliance to offer contactless transaction systems to retailers. Fujitsu will resell and integrate Accelitec's PayPilot suite of transaction ...
Read More CBA pilots PayPass
Gemplus is to be involved in Australia's first MasterCard PayPass pilot programme, with Commonwealth Bank of Australia. The six-month trial will be rolled out in New South Wales, with the first phase ...
Read More McDonald's joins 'Octopus Rewards'
Following on from the recent announcement that Transport for London will not expand its Oyster contactless travel card to include payments, Octopus, Hong Kong's contactless travel card, says McDonald's ...
Read More Vision Payments to resell MobileLime
MobileLime and Vision Payment Solutions have agreed to allow Vision Payment to resell the MobileLime 'Mobile Rewards' platform' through direct and ISO sales channels to its customer base nationwide.
Read More Turkey's Akbank moves to mobile
Akbank, Turkey's largest privately owned bank, is utilizing Fair Isaac Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) technology for a more targeted and efficient loan origination approach.
Read More Meridea and QinetiQ partnership
QinetiQ and Meridea are to provide customers with a two-factor authentication mechanism for securing electronic transactions, without the requirement for hardware tokens. The solution uses the customer's ...
Read More Apple files wireless iPod patent
On May 4, the US Patent & Trademark Office revealed an Apple patent titled 'Reservation of digital media items', originally filed on December 21, 2004. The patent relates to the purchasing of digital ...
Read More Mobile DRM issues hit Europe
Lack of effective mDRM (mobile Digital Rights Management) will cost Europe €3.5bn this year - over half the estimated annual turnover of the European mobile entertainment industry - according to Frost ...
Read More TheContentMarket.com
Qpass has launched 'TheContentMarket.com', a new distribution model specifically designed to simplify the process of developing and launching fully functioning mobile content storefronts for tens of thousands ...
Read More New 'Browse and Buy' service
Dialogue Communications is to launch a global mobile internet portfolio, believed to be the UK's most user-friendly 'browse and buy' product, ready to meet the needs of consumers wanting to buy goods ...
Read More UK lags on mobile internet
One in three (33%) UK mobile phone users want to surf the web on their mobile phones, but only if it is like the true internet environment. To date only one in 10 (11%) British mobile users have browsed ...
Read More Analysis
M-payments to hit $10bn by 2010
Mobile payments are set to rise to $10bn in total revenue by 2010, thanks to the entrance of new players offering m-payment schemes and subsequent consumer demand, according to Alan Goode, senior analyst ...
Read More Cards today, phones tomorrow
Card-based contactless payment systems may be new, but the signs already point to a coming migration from cards, with their limited functions, to mobile handsets making use of Near Field Communications ...
Read More Mobile phones: 'show me the value'
Market Platform Dynamics (MPD), a management consulting firm specializing in platform-based company strategies, has released preliminary findings from its 2006 Generation X and Y payment and technology ...
Read More Vendor Zone
Mobile chip terminal in Denmark
The first mobile payment chip terminal has been approved in Denmark.
Read More Carphone Warehouse top-up service
Carphone Warehouse has selected electronic payments specialist Eposs Group to provide a fully integrated airtime top-up service in all of its 46 stores in Ireland.
Read More ViVOpay global PayPass certification
The ViVOpay 5000 is the first commercially available reader to be certified for use in the global OneSmart MasterCard PayPass contactless payment programme, including magstripe in the US and OneSmart ...
Read More Valista's latest release
Valista has made available the latest release of 'Payments Plus,' which supports any type of mobile, internet and broadcast content services enabling the launch of services with payment options including ...
Read More Mini-size antennas for PayPass
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) recently began offering MasterCard issuers contactless payment cards and devices in small formats. G&D has developed a Contactless Product Suite, making small-scale antennas ...
Read More OTI key fobs for Taipei
Contactless microprocessor-based smart card provider On Track Innovations (OTI) is providing Taipei Fubon Bank with a 'Tap & Go' key fob solution. The device complies with MasterCard PayPass and fits ...
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