MPW ISSUE 84 June 28 2006
News
How far can P2P go?
Person-to-person (P2P) payments are starting to gain a higher profile around the world, with PayPal and a number of smaller companies entering the market. While names like Obo-pay, TextPayMe, Luup, Paybox ...
Read More HMV m-commerce roll-out
HMV and Digital Rum (dR) have launched a unique mobile service that enables music, film fans and gamers to Txt2Buy CDs, DVDs and Games directly from their mobile phones for the very first time. The new ...
Read More G&D and Nokia services for mobile NFC
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) and Nokia are to form a joint venture, 57% owned by G&D and 43% by Nokia, which will provide services to the NFC 'ecosystem' by enabling consumer applications like credit cards ...
Read More Barclays fights fraud with SMS
Barclays is launching a new online anti-fraud initiative and becoming the first bank to offer free anti-virus software to its customers. Customers will also be offered an innovative text message service ...
Read More JCB extends contactless QuicPay
JCB is to launch a pilot project using an NFC contactless credit payment scheme this autumn in Amsterdam in partnership with CCV Holland, Gemplus, KPN, Nokia, PaySquare, Philips and ViVOtech.
Read More Philips and SKT in world's biggest NFC trial
Philips and SKTelecom are to cooperate in the development and deployment of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology in Korea. They launched a large-scale six-month trial of NFC with local partners within ...
Read More Visa contactless milestone
Visa has reached a significant milestone in the acceptance of Visa Contactless by surpassing 20,000 contactless acceptance locations in the US. Consumers can make contactless payments at some of the best-known ...
Read More Chase puts 'blink' on debit cards
Chase, the consumer banking brand of JPMorgan Chase & Co. is to roll out 1.8m Visa debit cards with blink technology to make purchases faster for its customers in the Tri-State area of New York, New Jersey ...
Read More sQuid e-money card may launch in UK
UK branding agency Nucleus has appointed Rothschild to raise £15m to fund a contactless payment system to rival Transport for London's (TfL) Oyster smart card, according to a report by UK broadsheet The ...
Read More Schemes reduce contactless interchange
At the SMI Contactless Cards conference in London, both Visa and MasterCard remained bullish about opportunities in Europe for their respective contactless initiatives.
Read More Contactless is safe!
Also at the SMI conference, the issue of safety surrounding the contactless transaction was raised during discussions, the fear being of multiple cards making a purchase when more than one resides in ...
Read More PayPass rolls on
MasterCard International has continued its aggressive attempt to drive its contactless initiative forward by signing all of the major Chicago sporting arenas to PayPass.
Read More Clickatell trial contactless receipts
Global mobile message carrier Clickatell is to expand its European business with the establishment of UK headquarters in Richmond, Surrey and the appointment of Deon van Heerden as UK country manager. ...
Read More M-payment services from bcgi
bcgi and Telogic have formed an alliance to offer payment and access control solutions to mobile operators in Asia, with Telogic acting as a channel partner reselling bcgi's 'Payment Manager' and 'Mobile ...
Read More Monilink goes global with BT
Monitise has signed a deal with BT Global Services and BT joint venture Tech Mahindra to roll out its mobile banking platform Monilink on a global scale.
Read More Half a bn mobile TV subscribers by 2011
In 2011, mobile TV services will have some 514m subscribers worldwide, up from only 6.4m at end-2005, says ABI Research.
Read More Analysis
Mobile and electronic payments bolster GDP
A study by Vodafone (Africa: The Impact of Mobile Phones) comparing data like GDP, fixed line penetration and human capital stock from 98 countries between 1980 and 2003 concluded that the introduction ...
Read More Vendor Zone
mBlox selects Valista Platform
mBlox is deploying Valista's transaction engine - Pay-mentsPlus. mBlox selected the payment platform after a close comparison of the world's leading vendors and will use it to support its next generation ...
Read More Vodafone IP charging
Redknee has upgraded Vodafone UK's Intelligent Packet Core (IPC) network with its 'Unified Rating and Charging System' (URCS) extending Voda's IPC with IP charge capabilitiy.
Read More HVAC leader to deploy Mobilescape
US wireless payment provider Commerciant has announced that HVAC (Heating, Ventilating and Cooling) leader Cropp-Metcalfe has started deploying 'Mobilescape 3000' to its fleet of 170 trucks.
Read More VeriFone's QX720 contactless option
VeriFone has launched a secure drive-thru consumer-operated payment solution, the QX720, which supports credit, debit and contactless cards and integrates with existing VeriFone payment systems for easy ...
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