Tag Archives: Wallet

GoMo tries to put Oyster onto its Android RAZR HD

Published on Thursday, April 11th by admin

Rating: It has support for NFC but the app is still missing

One of the facilities built into our sparking new Motorola RAZR HD is – of course, the ability to support NFC (Near Field Communication). NFC is a bit like Bluetooth in that it is a cellular related wireless technology that has plenty of applications. Nokia has utilised NFC, for example, to permit the wireless exchange of business cards just by tapping two handsets together. There’s a facility called Android Beam built into the Android OS to facilitate just that sort of thing. But NFC is most heavily associated with contactless payments. And being London based, GoMo News‘ main exposure to contactless payments is via the Oyster card for transport payments. So is there a way of putting Oyster on the RAZR? Nope. The app is still missing and the biggest drawback is a lack of a mobile wallet. Maybe Weve will be able to sort that out. Continue reading →

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Barclaycard US breathes new life into Google Wallet

Published on Friday, September 14th by admin

Rating: British credit card company seems to back all players

Barclaycard US has now followed suit US-based Discover by throwing its weight behind the new, improved, Google Wallet. It has added its own click-to-add process to encourage customers to select it as their default Google Wallet payment choice. The same facility with apply to those with co-branded credit cards from LL Bean and US Airways. Continue reading →

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UK’s Monitise revs up for fast lane

Published on Saturday, August 25th by Dave Evans

£24m cash injection to help mobile payments firm accelerate growth

AIM-listed Monitise, which provides mobile payments technology for Visa and most of the UK high street banks, will pass another milestone this Wednesday [29th August 2012] when it raises around £24 million through the placing of up to 81 million new shares. With the pace of mobile payment innovation hotting up and Apple tipped to introduce its own scheme with its new iPhone next month [September 2012], rival contenders need to secure turf now before users of the new technologies get too settled. Continue reading →

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Guest Post: NFC payment test at Olympics will inspire mobile attackers to go for the Gold

Published on Tuesday, July 24th by admin

by Jimmy Shah Mobile Security Researcher with McAfee

Visa is testing out its PayWave contactless payment service at the Summer Olympics in London. Every athlete will get a Samsung Galaxy SIII phone enabled with near-field communication (NFC) along with Visa’s payment app. Contactless payments aren’t new, and similar payments by mobile phone have been tested by Google with its Wallet app and other NFC smartphones. When we last looked at NFC phones and similar apps, there were questions of whether an attacker could go after the apps or the phone hardware and the Android OS. Since then we have seen a PIN-reset vulnerability that allowed an attacker to use the free prepaid card and the ability to crack PINs on the phone. Continue reading →

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O2 Wallet launches

Published on Thursday, April 26th by Submit Release

Press release

April 26th 2012. O2 has announced the launch of O2 Wallet – a seamless and secure digital wallet service that will deliver the benefits of mobile money to more UK consumers than any other product or service currently available. Continue reading →

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Coleago says Google will win wallet war

Published on Friday, September 30th by Tony Dennis

Rating: And in second place are the mobile operators

Although it’s entitled ‘Who will win the mobile payments standards war’ the latest report from independent telecoms consultancy, Coleago Consulting, is really focussed on the mobile wallet. Which is why the author has concluded that, “Google is currently best positioned to win the standards war for mobile payments.” However, the report does concede that, mobile operator alliances are in a strong position to challenge the major over-the-top players, should they move fast enough.” For a UK based operation, this report certainly does appear to take a very US-centric viewpoint. It seems to ignore entirely the fact that there is a fully functional mobile payments eco-system functioning perfectly well in Africa thanks to the like of Fundamo and MTN Uganda (see our previous story here). The report’s conclusion also seems to assume that NFC is the only option when 2D barcodes could be used in precisely the same fashion, for example. Continue reading →

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Google Wallet gets rolled out to Sprint Nexus S 4G owners

Published on Tuesday, September 20th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Hopes to add more financial partners via NFC support

Having extensively tested it since the first announcement back in May [2011], Google has now rolled out the first version of the Google Wallet app to Sprint. It will become available to all owners of the Sprint Nexus S 4G via an OTA (Over-The-Air) update. The Wallet was trialled with three financial institutions – Citi, First Data and MasterCard. Now, Visa, Discover and American Express have made their NFC specifications available which will enable their cards to be added to future versions of Google Wallet. The eventual goal, however, is for all payment cards to be added to the Google Wallet. Read our own Bena Roberts’ verdict here. Continue reading →

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