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 [...]
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With the recent news that T-Mobile has withdrawn from the Dutch NFC Payments Consortium and that Verizon has blocked Google Wallet on the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone, are we beginning to see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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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