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Mopay Now Allows You To Bill Mobile Payments To A Landline Account
Jul 19th
Mobile payments company mopay is launching a new technology, mopay call, that allows online merchants to allow consumer to bill purchases to their land line phone accounts. Like competitors Zong and Boku, mopay’s platform doesn’t require users to have a credit card or bank account to make a micropayment. Users enter their cell phone number, reply to a text message and then all virtual charges are automatically charged to the user’s monthly cell phone bill.
Wind e Huawei: intesa per banda larga fissa e mobile in Italia
Jun 7th
L’ accordo prevede anche la creazione di un Innovation Lab congiunto a Roma ed alcuni progetti inerenti lo sviluppo delle reti HSPA mobile, LTE, Core Network e Fibra ottica per la banda ultra larga.
Google Unveils Web TV Project
May 21st
In a joint effort to bring Web and channel surfing together, Google Inc, Intel Corp, Logitech International and Sony Corp unveiled new plans for a “smart” TV on Thursday.
Google wants to turn televisions into giant monitors to allow people sitting in their living rooms watching their favorite show to be able to click a button [...]
Wireless Visa payments coming to iPhone
May 20th
Visa and contactless technology company DeviceFidelity are working together to produce a solution for using the iPhone for Visa mobile payments.
The NFC (Near Field Communication) technology company has produced a microSD solution for mobile devices and is now attempting to target the iPhone market using a protective case that will cover the iPhone and incorporates [...]
iPhone Case Lets You Pay With Your Visa Card
May 18th
Instead of a chip, DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay iPhone case features a removable MicroSD card that stores and transmits your credit card information. To pay with your phone you activate a password protected iPhone application, and then hold your phone up to a scanner at any location that accepts contactless Visa payments.
(It) IL COMMERCIO ELETTRONICO TORNA A CORRERE + 15% NEL 2010
May 18th
Nel primo trimestre del 2010 l’eCommerce B2c in Italia, inteso come il totale delle vendite realizzate da siti italiani, torna a crescere a doppia cifra con un +16% superando 1,4 miliardi di €. Si prevede una crescita del 15% nel 2010 con una quota di fatturato pari a 6,5 miliardi di €.
IL COMMERCIO ELETTRONICO TORNA [...]
GSMA Welcomes Publication of INTERPHONE Results
May 18th
[ Notice under STRICT EMBARGO UNTIL 18 MAY 2010 - 1:30AM, PARIS TIME ]
The GSMA welcomes the publication by the INTERPHONE study group of the results for the combined analysis for glioma and meningioma in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
In the press release announcing the paper Dr Christopher Wild, Director of the International Agency for [...]
China UnionPay initiates mobile payments alliance
May 15th
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China UnionPay card network operator has launched an initiative to organize a group of national banks, wireless operators and handset makers to form a mobile payments industry alliance in a move to make the sector be more standardized and regulated.
According to the official statement members will be working to promote mobile payment business adopting [...]
Garanti Bank and Avea start a new period in payment systems with their NFC technology work.
May 14th
Garanti Bank, which is the leading name of payment systems sector in Turkey, and Avea, which is the GSM operator that makes its subscribers talk most in Turkey, effectuate NFC – Near Field Communication technology in all mobile phones for the first time in Turkey and the world. The new SIM cards having NFC technology [...]
Visa acquires CyberSource, positions itself for m-commerce
Apr 28th
By agreeing to acquire CyberSource for $2 billion in cash, Visa has become a direct player in the increasingly important area of payment processing for e-commerce and, crucially, m-commerce. Visa’s move is part of a trend among the card networks to branch out into new areas, secure future growth potential, and to avoid being blind-sided [...]
