BROWSING: NFC

Working in telecommunications is a bit of a headache with acronyms and jargon being tossed around within nearly every conversation. It’s likely that a person new to the industry will not be able to understand such interactions. I’ve gone through a significant learning curve...

Mobile commerce gained some considerable momentum today when it was announced that the four largest national payments networks would be joining Isis. The national mobile commerce joint venture between Verizon Wireless (VZ), AT&T Mobility (T) and T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY) will get a significant...

PayPal demonstrated its new NFC capabilities for the first time this week at the Mobile Beat 2011 conference in San Francisco. Senior director of PayPal Mobile, Laura Chambers, gave the audience a demo of the new service by tapping two smartphones together to transfer a...

PayPal this morning announced a new mobile phone widget that will let smartphone users "tap" their phones together to exchange money. ...

EBay Inc. (EBAY)’s PayPal unit unveiled a service that will let users make payments by tapping their mobile devices together, joining rivals in the market for wireless transactions using near field communication technology. ...

Considering all the activity of late, PayPal appears to be jumping into the deep end of the mobile payments space. The company is planning to launch a new application for Android devices later this summer that leverages near field communication technology to provide a...

PCWorld | July 13, 2011 | Mark Sullivan PayPal this morning announced a new mobile phone widget that will let smartphone users tap their phones together to exchange money. Read the full article here via PCWorld

PCWorld | July 13, 2011 | Mark Sullivan PayPal this morning announced a new mobile phone widget that will let smartphone users tap their phones together to exchange money. Read the full article here via PCWorld

Bloomberg | July 13, 2011 | Douglas Macmillan EBay Inc. (EBAY)’s PayPal unit unveiled a service that will let users make payments by tapping their mobile devices together, joining rivals in the market for wireless transactions using near field communication technology. Read the full article here...

Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility have sunk $24 million in funding into Santa Clara based mobile payment firm ViVOtech, along with Singapore's EDBI, Citi Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners, Draper Fisher Jurveston and SingTel Innov8. ViVOtech an NFC software and systems firm with 70% market share has stated...

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. This week marks the start of the second half of 2011 – a perfect time...

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. Recently, Google Inc. announced Google Wallet, a virtual wallet and set of services to allow...

Considering how frequent new projections come out for the mobile payments space, at least one conclusion can be drawn: expectations for mobile finance is high. The latest study from Juniper Research predicts the total value of mobile payments will reach $670 billion by 2015.Marking...

Red Bend Software, Mobile Software Management (MSM), announced that BYD Electronic Company Limited of China, manufacturer of mobile handset components and modules, has licensed Red Bend's vRapid Mobile

NFC is going to change how we behave and significantly enhance mobile marketing according to Mohammed Khan President and Founder of Vivotech, an NFC software and systems firm with 70% market share.Speaking in Singapore at the GSMA mobile money summit, Khan said it was...

Speaking at the GSMA’s mobile payment conference in Singapore, Barba said it was important that the industry work together to make NFC take off, as a local ecosystem was mandatory when it came to stimulating usage.Interoperability was key said Barba adding that mobile operators...

Huawei releases Honeycomb tabletChinese vendor Huawei took the wraps off its mysterious HD MediaPad this week, giving CommunicAsia goers a hands on look at the 7-inch Android Honeycomb device, running on Qualcomm’s dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor. Stay tuned to catch a more in...

It's still at least six months away but when Isis launches its mobile commerce platform in the first half of 2012, Austin will be among the first cities in the country to serve as a test bed. The joint venture between AT&T Mobility (T),...

ZD Net | June 17, 2011 | Rachel King Google already promised at the launch of Google Wallet that NFCtechnology would be coming to more Android handhelds beyond theNexus S. Sony Ericsson is helping out. Answering the call for near field communications chips is NXP, which will provide “complete embedded, secure...

Reuters | June 13, 2011 | Miyoung Kim (Reuters) - South Korea plans to install or upgrade 300,000 mobile payment checkouts at major retailers and transport services this year in its latest push in the potentially lucrative market as the likes of Google Inc and Apple Inc...

In just two and a half years, near-field communication technology should drive $50 billion in transactions worldwide, according to a new report from Juniper Research.The firm projects the second half of this year and 2012 to be “banner years for NFC service rollouts,” noting...

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. At first glance, mobile payments seem like a strategic slam dunk across several sectors. This...

SAN DIEGO — Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) is an engineer shop at its core. It has flirted with some direct-to-consumer apps and gear, most notably its device division back in the day and most recently its failed FLO TV offering. But Qualcomm's fortunes and greatest...

Today's telecom operators are facing perhaps the most competitive threats to their business that they ever have. Device manufacturers, operating system companies, over-the-top service providers and large digital content giants are each developing their own relationships with individual end users and enterprises. Faced with...