and of course, will they take off again anytime soon. Reports are coming on on the use of mobile payments over black , and the one everyone is quoting is InfoScout’s which shows that Apple Pay’s use on the day went down to half what it was last year, and was only used 2 in 100 […]
March 10, 2014
During my 14 or so years thinking about mobile, and delivering services to boot, there has been a common thread for many of them and in particular person to person P2P services. And no not lots of money, and no not über coolness, nor even a perfect idea, it is … Perceived ubiquity. For P2P […]
February 20, 2014
I try not to just comment on rolling news about mobile, as there are so many more people who do this, and do it full time. However sometimes an important event occurs that makes me sit up and think. Here is one. Using your mobile phone to pay for things at a point of sale […]
December 12, 2012
As an oyster user (which is the NFC ticket system in use here in London) I have just had an email to say that I can now use my NFC (Contactess) credit or debit card with the oyster reader on London buses. So now I or anyone can pay for a single fare by just touching your debit card. […]
December 2, 2012
Here is the entry in the mobile Academy’s programme B4 Collecting Money How to get the money in! How do all the different customer payment mechanisms compare? How do I work with mobile operators? Subscriptions vs One Offs? Chris Newell, Russell Sheffield 4/10, 8pm (Thurs) This is the second half of the payment session this time […]
November 12, 2012
Here is the description of the session from the programme B4 Collecting Money How to get the money in! How do all the different customer payment mechanisms compare? How do I work with mobile operators? Subscriptions vs One Offs? Chris Newell, Russell Sheffield 4/10, 8pm (Thurs) This session was delivered in two parts by a couple […]
November 9, 2012
I was at a talk the other day (called “Mobile Money makes the world go round”) where one of the speakers declared that Starbucks has the largest mobile payments platform in the USA. Anyway a couple of new ways to pay for your coffee without using cash have come to light, so lets have […]
November 9, 2012
[There is a lot here, so in short, take payments on your phone using a punters credit card] Izettle is a device that you can attach to your phone which can read credit card details for you. This means that you can, along with their app, take payments just using your phone, and it’s internet connection […]
November 1, 2012
At last some movement. Vodafone have decided to launch an NFC payment service on the back of Visa, with Gemalto and Corfire. It will allow for payments at the Visa Paywave compatible Point of Sales. I would like to see that you can import cards into the system, an then select which card you want […]
October 22, 2012
Attended a lunch event that forms a part of the Mobile London week. Wednesday, 17 October 2012 from 13:00 to 14:00 (BST) (Mobile) Money Makes the World Go Around Mozilla HQ 101 St Martin’s Lane WC2N 4AZ London United Kingdom Here are my notes taken during the panel session, here is the blurb from the amazing […]
December 7, 2015
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