contactless payments
Cheat Sheet: Contactless payments
Cheat Sheet Contactless payments (CP) - what's that, then? The US arm of HSBC is distributing one million of MasterCard's PayPass contactless cards to its customers, who can now use them in McDonalds, 7-Eleven stores, motorway toll booths and cinemas. [11 Oct 2005]
Contactless payments speeds up coffee drinkers
News The four-month trial took place at Coffee Republic's outlets in Broadgate, Bluewater shopping centre and Canary Wharf between January and April 2008 - and the company said it saw a 50 per cent rise in contactless payments in the Canary Wharf bar... [23 Jul 2008]
The What, Who and Why of Contactless Payments
White Paper The mass market introduction of contactless technology is an important event for the payments industry. Contactless payments are already providing benefits to consumers and retailers alike, in terms of higher levels of control and convenience for... [30 May 2007]
Retailers fear contactless payments
News Retailers are increasingly worried that the forthcoming launch of contactless payment cards in the UK could leave them significantly out of pocket as the cost of accepting payments this way could be potentially much more expensive than cash. [24 Apr 2007]
Visa primes dotMobi for contactless m-payments
News Under the deal, Visa will help dotMobi develop a number of mobile payment capabilities, including contactless mobile payment, vouchers and direct marketing. Speaking on the state of wireless payments, at the CTIA Wireless conference in Florida... [29 Mar 2007]
Turkey rolls out contactless payments
News Burger King and Starbucks will be the first retailers to accept contactless payments in Turkey as 25,000 people receive 'Tap & Go' cards. Visa is to trial contactless debit cards in London this autumn that will allow shoppers to pay for low-value... [21 Jul 2006]
Cheat Sheet: NFC and contactless payments
Cheat Sheet NFC is a short range wireless technology, very similar to RFID and reminiscent of Bluetooth, commonly used for contactless payments. For heaven's sake, no, not text payments - payments using your mobile phone. [20 Apr 2006]
Barclays targets taxis with wave-and-pay tech
News After introducing Oyster card-style contactless payments functionality into its plastic, Barclays has been working on a contactless system for taxis. Barclays and Computer Cab have teamed up to develop a near field communication payments system for... [27 Apr 2007]
Bank extends contactless payment project
News The Royal Bank of Scotland is extending its trial of contactless payments technologies. In the meantime, we've extended the RBS internal trial to one of our key London locations, which provides a further opportunity for us to gain feedback on... [09 Nov 2006]
Visa launches mobile payments platform
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. Until now, Asia has adopted NFC more readily than... [10 Jan 2007]
Oyster and e-money credit cards coming to London
News Barclaycard, Transport for London (TfL) and Visa have teamed up to put contactless payments and Oyster card functionality together on the capital's plastic. Barclays customers will soon be able to use their cards in the normal chip and PIN manner... [13 Dec 2006]
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 terminal shown here demonstrates how NFC... [31 Jan 2008]
Oyster and Octopus - a tale of two cities' contactless cards
Comment In his travels for silicon.com's latest special report, about business and technology in China, Dan Ilett encountered Hong Kong's fabled contactless payments card, Octopus. But contactless payments have advanced so much in Hong Kong that last year... [28 Jun 2006]
Credit cards get RFID makeover from MasterCard
News The OneSMART PayPass card will use both Chip and PIN and RFID technology to enable contactless payments - used in the same way as the London Underground Oyster card. MasterCard is also hoping to take contactless payments beyond the plastic and... [04 Nov 2004]
Blinkered thinking holding back mobile NFC
News Analyst house ABI Research has reduced its shipment forecast for near field communications (NFC) devices, typically used for contactless payments, citing operators' confusion over the business model for NFC-enabled phones. [12 Sep 2006]
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