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News More than one-third of workers would choose their mobile phone over their wallet, keys, laptop or digital music player if they had to leave the house for 24 hours and could take only one item, a new survey has found.
[14 May 2008]
Photo Innovision, one of the companies involved in O2's six-month Oyster mobile wallet trial in London, has been showing off potential applications for NFC phones using its Topaz tag technology. HP is targeting the mini laptop market with this sub-£300...
[29 Apr 2008]
Photo Innovision is one of the companies involved in O2's six-month Oyster mobile wallet trial in London, which kicked off back in November. Near field communications (NFC) technology company Innovision, has been showing off its vision of a future where...
[04 Apr 2008]
Photo Zack Weisfeld of modu, said in a statement: "With modu, the mobile phone can now be added to the list of 'invisible' items that people carry with them wherever they go, such as a bunch of keys, their wallet and their watch.
[27 Mar 2008]
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. Mastercard has trialled and implemented its PayPass system in 20 countries...
[31 Jan 2008]
News According to research house Juniper, 50 million consumers will be paying for goods through an electronic wallet in their phones by the next decade. Mobile phone payments set to rocket by 2011 Soon there won't be many things you can't do with a...
[19 Dec 2007]
Photo Mobile wallet phone Just this week, O2 and Nokia announced a mobile wallet trial in London, which will see hundreds of guinea pigs using NFC handsets to swipe in and out of London Underground and pay for low-value goods and services at...
[03 Dec 2007]
News But even as the 500 guinea pigs get their hands on the Nokia 6131 NFC clamshell handset being used in the trial, O2 admitted there's no prospect of an imminent rollout of mobile wallet NFC as a business model.
[28 Nov 2007]
News According to the World Retail Banking Report from Capgemini, for some banks the emphasis is now shifting from cost-cutting measures - such as driving customers towards automated banking - to increasing revenue growth by what Capgemini vice...
[05 Apr 2007]
Leader And now rather than hand over some cash or write a cheque it is possible to make a purchase by tapping a teller's till with your wallet or mobile phone using contactless and near field communications (NFC) payments.
[12 Mar 2007]
News A report in The Wall Street Journal cited Nokia as the chief contender to get its wallet out but talk of such a union has provoked scepticism among analysts. The world's number two handset maker recently acquired Symbol - which, like Palm, also...
[05 Mar 2007]
News Lane said: "In Japan, the phone has almost become a mobile wallet, primarily because of cultural difference because credit card adoption and uptake is very low. Mobile entertainment will be worth to $38.12bn in 2011, up from $18.84bn in 2006.
[31 Jan 2007]
Video At CES 2007 in Las Vegas, siicon.com sister site ZDNet executive editor, David Berlind, talks to Visa's vice president of innovation, Pam Zuercher, about a new technology that allows users to make payments using their mobile phones instead of a...
[15 Jan 2007]
News Visa has launched a mobile platform that it says will "lay the foundation" for commercial deployment of contactless mobile payments and near-field communications (NFC) services around the world. The platform has a number of applications and tools...
[10 Jan 2007]
whitepaper The study involved demonstrating an "Electronic wallet" to pay for a meal in a simulated restaurant, and analyzing subjects responses based on structured interviews. This paper describes an investigation into the trust and security concerns of...
[06 Jan 2007]
Comment The head of NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan, revealed his strategy for launching new services, such as the wallet phone. I also pop in to another session Microsoft's head of mobile Pieter Knook is giving.
[05 Dec 2006]
News The M-Wallet service will initially allow mobile phone users to do banking chores and to pay bills at participating retailers. You may not read the newspaper or look at a billboard but you will definitely use your mobile phone each day.
[30 Nov 2006]
News Former Philips' chip unit NXP and Sony have announced they are to create a joint venture to promote the adoption of mobile NFC a goal that trade association the GSMA has also announced it will be working on.
[20 Nov 2006]
Case Study O2 said the pieces of information it asks for are details that a potential fraudster would not find all in one place - such as in a stolen wallet or bag - making it very difficult for individuals to perpetrate ID fraud.
[20 Nov 2006]
News A digital wallet, roll-up laptops, smart shelves and a digital table top are all among the concept designs. Instead, HP predicts, the mobile will become just one of a number of gadgets in your personal area network that will get its connectivity...
[09 Oct 2006]
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