From time to time we hear stories of how someone has done something amazing with the minimum of resources – for example, travelled from A to B without paying or survived in a certain country for months on less than $1 per day etc. Well, a recent announcement from SITA, the airline industry IT and [...]
Mobile Commerce
It has long been the case that the Far East has been far ahead of the West in the deployment and mass-market use of mobile commerce applications. However, many of Juniper Research’s recent forecasts show that the Far East dominance may be challenged over the next five years as North America and Western Europe gain [...]
One of the fallouts from the much publicised Verizon/Google disagreement that we commented on last week was the renewed focus on the security of the mobile payments process. This week there have been a number of reports on this issue. There have been two technical views – one on the security of Google Wallet and [...]
We highlighted in this blog last week about the announcement from Verizon and that it would block Google Wallet. Only a few days later there was a counter-announcement from Verizon that it wasn’t really blocking Google wallet, it was in discussion with Google about implementing a suitable “secure element” on the handset. OK – that’s [...]
With the recent news that T-Mobile has withdrawn from the Dutch NFC Payments Consortium and that Verizon has blocked Google Wallet on the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone, are we beginning to see the MNOs asserting themselves in the mobile commerce market? I have previously blogged on the mobile wallet wars and here we have [...]
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