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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
It can hardly have escaped the notice of anyone who follows the mobile commerce market that Google’s long awaited mobile wallet launch finally happened last week. Now that the phoney war is over the first offensive in the “wallet war” may now have started (see Who are you going to trust to look after your [...]
Last week’s news was full of content for those following the mobile commerce market. With the imminent launch of Google Wallet, both PayPal and Mastercard shared their approaches to mobile payments with the world. On the one hand, PayPal had a very pragmatic near-term view and much has been made of the lack of NFC [...]
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