The news that Intel and Mastercard have teamed up to enable NFC payments on Ultrabooks has some interesting ramifications. The first is, as the title suggests, the number of “things” you can “tap” is increasing everyday. But there’s obviously more to it than that. Personally, I wasn’t really expecting that I would ever need to [...]
Mobile Commerce
Here at Juniper Research, we often get asked whether we track POS (Point of Sale) systems. The reason we get asked is that POS systems are the “other side” of a user’s mobile payment transaction. We always answer “No” because, as a mobile-focused analyst house, we have quite strict definitions of what is “mobile” and [...]
Just over a year ago, Apple was awarded a trademark for the phrase, “There’s an app for that.” The idea behind the phrase was to convey that, for almost any functionality you could think of, there was a probably a mobile app already developed, ready and waiting to deliver just what you were thinking. All [...]
The news last week that Apple will not equip the iPhone 4GS with NFC was a disappointment to some as take-up by iPhone users would have been a great stimulus for the market. Despite the number of “other” smartphones announced with NFC (and that appears to be an increasing number by the week) the iPhone [...]
No, this isn’t another attack on Nokia’s market position (for non-old-English readers “whither” means “‘to which place”) i.e. where is Nokia heading in NFC mobile payments? It refers to the US mobile payments consortium, ISIS, announcing its line-up of NFC-capable handsets – HTC, LG, Motorola Mobility, RIM, Samsung Mobile and Sony Ericsson. So where is [...]
More Information
For more information about Juniper Research our reports or any of our services please Click here to contact us or Phone: +44 (0)1256 830002
- Content Management
- Account Management
- News, Updates & Preferences