contactless payments
Parking in the West End goes contactless
News From next year, parking meters in the West End will accept contactless payments from motorists with wave and pay functionality built into their debit or credit cards. Drivers with... [29 Oct 2009]
Kerching! London Poundland stores pilot contactless payments
News However the biggest hurdle to contactless takeup among consumers is the number of retailers currently accepting the payments - without a mass rollout of readers in shops, cardholders simply can't take... [12 Aug 2009]
O2, NatWest cash in with prepay Visa cards
News Analysts have long been predicting a coming together of the mobile and payments markets owing to the ubiquity of mobile phones and the rise of contactless payment technologies such as NFC (near field... [16 Jul 2009]
Contactless payments hamstrung by battle for hearts and minds
News According to Oliver Steeley, head of business strategy for MasterCard UK and Ireland, education is key in persuading retailers to adopt contactless payments. A less obvious benefit perhaps is that using... [24 Jun 2009]
Barclaycard going for contactless Gold
News Barclaycard Gold and Classic cardholders on the receiving end of a new or replacement card will now be able to make payments of up to £10 by swiping their card against a reader, thanks to contactless... [16 Jun 2009]
Olympics tickets to double as Tube tickets, cash?
News The idea of combining a contactless payment card with ticketing capability is not new: Barclays OnePulse credit card, launched in 2007, has both Oyster card and NFC payments functionality. The London... [29 May 2009]
Boots dispenses contactless payments
News UK health retailer Boots is to trial contactless payments at UK stores. Customers at 15 Boots shops in London and six in Liverpool will be able to use MasterCard PayPass cards to make... [13 May 2009]
Mobile future: TV, power and the 'internet of things'
News One technology the chipmaker is backing is mobile TV, while others likely to make it big include banking, coupons and NFC for contactless payments. Figuring out new business models, solving the wireless... [06 May 2009]
Contactless Payments Privacy and Security of RFID-Enabled Credit Cards
White Paper The new contactless payment devices suffer from various vulnerabilities which the paper will discuss. RFID technology brings a new experience to credit card payments, but it also comes with new problems. [15 Apr 2009]
Vulnerabilities in First-Generation RFID-Enabled Credit Cards
White Paper The RFID-enabled credit cards permit contactless payments that are fast, easy, and often more reliable than magnetic stripe card transactions, and only physical proximity (rather than contact) is... [15 Apr 2009]
Torex tech treats Thorntons to quicker sales
Case Study Thorntons has not yet fully implemented all the functionality of the new system either - and phase two of the rollout will see features including stock management within stores, webmail, contactless... [06 Apr 2009]
How smartphones, netbooks will change the future of money
News Earlier this month for example, mobile operator Orange and credit card company Barclaycard announced a strategic partnership to develop m-payments technology including mobile wallet handsets - which use near field... [30 Mar 2009]
Barclaycard, Orange share a mobile wallet
News The pair said they will work together to launch new products and services to enable their combined base of more than 28 million customers to use their mobiles to make payments and better manage their finances - with the... [09 Mar 2009]
Barclays cards make contact with RFID tech
News A Barclays spokesperson told ZDNet UK on Monday that there had been extensive third-party testing of the contactless system, and said that security risks around contactless payments had... [03 Mar 2009]
Brits still not that into contactless payments
News An O2 trial last year of mobile contactless tech for travel and small value payments on the London Underground found consumers were more keen on the travel feature than the payments... [12 Feb 2009]
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