Articles Tagged ‘mobile payments’
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PassTools Arrives, Helping Businesses Create Passbook Passes On The Fly
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Wed September 19th, 2012
Own a business and don't know how to get started with Apple's Passbook? Consider using PassTools.
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LevelUp Is Now Offering $5 For New Mobile Payment Customers
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Tue September 18th, 2012
You'll now receive $5 just for trying LevelUp, the pay phone app.
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Mobile Payment System Highlights New Dunkin' Donuts App
BY Brent Dirks on Thu August 16th, 2012
Not content to let coffee king Starbucks rule the mobile payment world, Dunkin’ Donuts has introduced its iOS app today with a number of features sure to make any fan of the chain happy.
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In-Store Mobile Payments Are Coming Soon, But Will Apple Be Left On The Shelf?
BY Dom Esposito on Wed August 15th, 2012
A few major retailers have joined forces to create a new mobile payment platform and Apple is nowhere in sight.
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I'll Pay For My Starbucks Coffee Using Square, Please
BY Joe White on Wed August 08th, 2012
Square has just announced a massive partnership with Starbucks that will see the iPhone-compatible mobile payments solution appear in 7,000 coffee shops nationwide, this fall.
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Could The iPhone 5 Also Feature Support For Near Field Communication?
BY Joe White on Mon June 25th, 2012
A new report from 9to5Mac claims that Apple’s new, sixth-generation iPhone handset, which we believe will be announced and released in fall, could launch with support for near field communication (NFC).
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Apple's Passbook App Could Be The Mobile Payments Solution We've Been Looking For
BY Joe White on Wed June 13th, 2012
Could Apple ultimately create the perfect digital wallet with iOS 6's Passbook app?
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Humor: Street Workers Embracing iPhone And Square App
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Wed October 05th, 2011
We know this isn’t real, but this YouTube video suggests another way the popular Square payment app is changing how money changes hands. In this case, the transaction is being done on the streets, between a street worker and her client.
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This Upcoming Case Can Make South Korean iPhones NFC Capable
BY Joe White on Mon September 19th, 2011
The South Korean carrier "KT" is planning on launching an NFC iPhone case alongside an accompanying service, which will allow Korean iPhone owners to make NFC payments using their smart phone.
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New Infographic Outlines Where Mobile Payments Could Be Going
BY Joe White on Fri July 08th, 2011
While Apple has yet to launch an NFC capable iPhone handset (and likely won’t until next year), Google has already announced its own mobile payments services, via which users will be able to pay for goods using a smart phone at any MasterCard PayPass point. However, can we really expect mobile payments to take off? As Google notes, in the past few thousand years we’ve only changed the way we pay three times (coins, notes, cards). Who says mobile payments is going to catch on?
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MasterCard's Upcoming Mobile Payments App Doesn't Need NFC, Or Does It?
BY Joe White on Mon June 27th, 2011
According to a recent report, MasterCard is currently hard at work developing a mobile payments app for iOS, Android and BlackBerry OS, which may or may not make use of Near Field Communication. The app is expected to launch in July.
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