Browsing All posts tagged under »payments«

Are Mobile Payments stalling ?

December 7, 2015

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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 […]

NFC Payments – chance for the roadblock to be cleared

February 20, 2014

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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 […]

No need to queue at the supermarket thanx to Qthru

December 17, 2012

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Earlier I  wrote about the sainbury’s research app that lets you scan your goods as you select them,  and then pay for them, all using your mobile phone. Looks like this is an idea that is catching on,  and Qthru are also producing a pretty much identical app. they also require you to have a till from them,  because […]

Mobile Academy – Collecting Money – Part 2 Paythru

December 2, 2012

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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 […]

Barclay’s Ping-it live for 100 Days – Infographic

October 22, 2012

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It seems that Barclay’s Ping it is gaining ground,  and getting some use that is worth taking note of (appols for convoluted english) Here is an infographic they have produced after 100 days of the service being live. Here is their blurb that accompanies it The infographic shows that people have been logging in on […]

Beginner’s Guide to Mobile Payments

October 10, 2012

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I was thinking of writing one of these,  but this article is a good starting point. I am not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned, nor the open forum, I’m just spreading the lurve   That said it is a very western point of view, does not consider emerging worlds like sub-Saharan Africa,  where […]

Google Wallet – Notes from their VP of Payment

April 24, 2012

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This was originally posted to my internal IBM blog on 15:21 20/04/2012, Steve Devo, google, google_wallet, mobile, mobile_payments, mwv, payments, Mobile Internet Google Wallet Osama Bedier, VP Payments, Google, presented at the “Delivering innovative payment services at MWC. Here is a summary of what he said. Ohhh and in case you’re in a hurry I can […]

Mashup Notes – Mobile Payments

April 24, 2012

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This was originally posted to my internal IBM blog on 16:01 23/03/2012, Steve Devo, mashup, mobile, nfc, payments, Mobile Internet Mashup The mashup are a series of evenings that look at various aspects of mobile technology and culture. run as a not for profit, they only charge enough to cover costs. (£42 squids for this one) […]

Google wallet and the operators

April 24, 2012

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This was originally posted to my internal IBM blog on 11:24 23/03/2012, Steve Devo, google, google_wallet, mobile, payments, Mobile Internet Several reports over the last few days of Google trying to gain better adoption of their wallet payments. Google have a few retailers using the system however it seems to me that either they motivate more […]

Vodafone and VISA in NFC payments tie up

April 24, 2012

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This was originally posted to my internal IBM blog on 11:19 27/02/2012, Steve Devo, mobile, nfc, payments, visa, vodafone, Mobile Internet The following has been taken from sharecast.   This is good news indeed, there has been many years of delays in getting NFC payments out into the world. The problems are legion as the device […]