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RSS contactlessFive-year wait for O2 Oyster card mobiles
News Mobile operator O2 has announced the results of a six-month mobile wallet trial in London - and, despite claims consumers are enamoured of having contactless travel capabilities embedded in their phone, an imminent... [02 Sep 2008]
Contactless payments speeds up coffee drinkers
News Coffee chain Coffee Republic is rolling out contactless payment technology after a trial of Barclaycard Business's OneTouch system saw up to one in five credit card transactions being waved through this way. [23 Jul 2008]
NFC payments to reach tipping point in three years?
News The market for contactless mobile payments using near field communications (NFC) is set to reach a tipping point over the next three to five years, according to a new report by Juniper Research. The analyst forecasts the... [18 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.07.08
Round-Up And this weekend's O2 Wireless festival promises that some lucky punters will have access to luxury toilets with the help of contactless NFC wristbands. And so, the Round-Up empties its rucksack of festival tat and puts... [04 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: The naked truth about DSL
Comment Check out what you can expect when shopping in the future - from magic mirrors to contactless payments. It might sound like something from the seedier side of the internet - but naked DSL might just be the next big thing... [03 Jul 2008]
Photos: Shopping just got high-tech
Photo Contactless payments are gradually becoming a reality, mainly through plastic cards. A number of adventurous technologies were on display at the Retail Solutions Show, which this year relocated from Birmingham to the... [27 Jun 2008]
Photos: Top tech for the festival season
Photo O2 will allow selected guests to access luxury toilets by scanning contactless NFC wristbands on special readers. With the festival season kicking off with Glastonbury this weekend, silicon.com has brought together the... [26 Jun 2008]
Open source guru criticises Oyster software
News In an email sent to silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Monday, Stallman criticised the use of open-source software, such as Red Hat Linux, JBoss middleware and Apache web-server software, in the online payment system for the Oyster... [10 Jun 2008]
Photos: Welcome to futuristic shopping
Photo This is a contactless payment point similar to the ones that have been rolled out across London for use with contactless payment cards from Mastercard and Visa. Fujitsu retail technology serves around 80... [04 Jun 2008]
Improving Consumers' Contactless Payment Experience
White Paper Contactless cards are a key technology for improving the consumer experience for retail transactions. The sensitivity of the contactless card is a more important metric than the computational speed, but... [28 Mar 2008]
Photos: Accenture waves goodbye to the wallet
Photo The SMS is on the wall for crumpled notes and battered leather wallets as Accenture Technology Labs shows off the future of contactless payments using mobile phones. The custom built contactless payment... [31 Jan 2008]
Top 10 financial services stories of the year
News Apacs estimates five million contactless payment cards to be in circulation by the end of next year. Gartner's forebodings for cash were made real with a number of commitments from credit card companies to introduce... [17 Dec 2007]
O2 Tube trial takes mobile payments underground
News Visa has already launched a contactless payment system known as payWave which is available in some areas of London and enables customers to wave a credit or debit card in front of a reader to pay for low value goods... [28 Nov 2007]
E-payments: Cheap as chips
News Last year, Singapore unveiled a standard contactless e-purse application (Cepas), which allows merchants to only have one system to deal with multiple cards. Andy Kyte, VP of analyst firm Gartner, said at the Gartner... [27 Nov 2007]
TfL and Nokia to roll out 'Oyster phone' trial
News The same technology has recently been incorporated into some new banking cards so that they can be used in shops for contactless payment of small amounts. Visa even has a payWave credit card that features the capability... [26 Nov 2007]
