MPW ISSUE 85 July 12 2006
News
Nokia in China NFC m-payment trial
Nokia and its collaborators, China Fujian Mobile Communications Co, Xiamen E-Tong Card Company and Philips, are to run China's first NFC m-payment field trial in Xiamen City, Fujian Province.
Read More Citibank Thailand rewards programme
Citibank and Thai mobile phone provider, True Move, have launched a new programme to allow Citibank credit card holders to accumulate reward points.
Read More EC consultation on RFID
An online public consultation on how the European Commission can help to ensure that the growing use of RFID boosts the competitiveness and improves the quality of life of Europe's citizens, while safeguarding ...
Read More VbV on Swiss mobiles
Visa Europe has introduced its 'Verified by Visa' (VbV) secure payment service on mobile phones, taking m-commerce to the next level of security, while ensuring purchases are easy and convenient for cardholders. ...
Read More Singapore's CEPAS standard
Singaporeans will soon enjoy the convenience of using one card to make electronic payments (e-payment) for their everyday needs - from retail purchases to public transport payments - successfully bridging ...
Read More M-banking back on the menu
With the well-publicized failure of WAP at the turn of the century, many banks abandoned their m-banking channels and marked the technology as disastrous. However, in the past few months the m-banking ...
Read More Tyfone m-banking and payments
US-based Tyfone, which develops applications for mobile handsets, has completed trial-ready prototypes of a hardware/software co-design allowing mobile handsets to perform secure mobile banking transactions. ...
Read More PayPass for vending machines
MasterCard International has teamed with Philly Coke (Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company) and USA Technologies to enable 1,000 Coca-Cola vending machines for PayPass acceptance. The deployment is ...
Read More Backing for India's Paymate
Sherpalo Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), two Silicon Valley venture capital firms, have invested in Paymate, a wireless technology provider in mobile commerce.
Read More Koreans see global opportunities
Korean vendors began RFID development more slowly than their global rivals, but they believe that they can still enjoy enormous opportunities in the international market place, especially in the UHF segment.
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Read More Analysis
Turning mobile phones into eftpos terminals - By GFG Group’s Peter Goldfinch
Vodafone New Zealand's HotLink is a virtual eftpos solution based on the concept of treating mobile phones as a payment channel, enabling banks to facilitate m-payments with little need to change their ...
Read More Vendor Zone
Qpass' 'OpenMarket Exchange'
Amdocs, which recently purchased Qpass, has launched OpenMarket Exchange (www.open market.com), a web-based business system enabling media companies to build high-growth 'direct-to-consumer' (D2C) mobile ...
Read More Ingenico POS terminals for Norway
Ingenico UK is to introduce secure chip and PIN, along with the latest mobile payment solutions, to post offices across Norway in deals totalling over £1m.
Read More Microsoft planning MVNO and iPod killer
Microsoft is going to shift away from its current model and go straight after the iPod with a portable media player of its own.
Read More Virgin to test mobile TV
UK MVNO Virgin Mobile, now owned by cable operator ntl, is to launch the UK's first 'true mobile broadcast TV service.'
Read More Opinions
Ticketing goes mobile - By Alan Goode, Senior Analyst, Juniper Research
There are 2bn mobile phone users in the world and many use a ticket most days to travel, to watch the latest Hollywood blockbuster and to cheer on their favourite sports team.
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