Samsung Galaxy S III, sans contract, coming to Virgin and Boost; Boost Mobile Wallet is here 21 May 2013, 13:20 16

Now that the Samsung Galaxy S4 is the flagship Android model, the Samsung Galaxy S III is being made...

T-Mobile says no to Google Wallet, yes to ISIS 18 May 2013, 16:17 32

Some owners of the T-Mobile branded Samsung GALAXY Note II are getting upset at the carrier's decision...

Turn your Apple iPad into a POS device with Square Stand 14 May 2013, 19:44 22

Mobile payments company Square is best known for the little accessory that it offers iOS and Android...

Amazon patent reveals new anonymous mobile payment system 17 Apr 2013, 08:58 1

According to a patent filing made by Amazon, the retailer and tablet manufacturer is working on an app...

Double standard alert: Visa and Mastercard to charge wallet apps 20 Mar 2013, 19:51 8

Mobile payments are a nice dream, and there are a number of different solutions that are trying to become...

Bad news for Google Wallet: Samsung and Visa agree on worldwide NFC deal 25 Feb 2013, 11:32 29

This isn't the first deal that Samsung and Visa have made for mobile payments via NFC. The two companies...

RIM gets approval from Visa for mobile payment system 18 Jan 2013, 00:04 4

When BlackBerry 10 hits the market, it will have a mobile payment system all its own. Visa has approved...

Analysts finally agree with us: NFC's success lays outside of mobile payments 20 Dec 2012, 21:50 5

We've said it for a while, but there are finally analysts saying it, so obviously that means it's time...

VeriFone surrenders to Square in the mobile payment business 15 Dec 2012, 01:59

In May, VeriFone introduced Sail, a mobile payment processing solution to compete with Square...

Google finally getting around to Wallet prepaid card refunds 07 Dec 2012, 16:56 5

This has been a pretty long journey. So, if you remember, back when Google launched Google Wallet, it...

Gemalto's UpTeq NFC is the first SIM card authorized for mobile payments by Visa, MasterCard and Amex 05 Dec 2012, 08:19 2

The Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card and mobile security juggernaut Gemalto managed to score...

ABI Research: Close to 2 billion NFC enabled devices to ship by 2017 24 Nov 2012, 13:30 15

According to ABI Research, support for NFC will rise this year as the number of devices to be shipped...

Apple starts rolling out Passbook enabled Apple Store gift cards 11 Nov 2012, 21:07 8

Apple has been trying to expand the usefulness of its Passbook application and has started offering Passbook...

Google Wallet to have physical card option says Support Page 06 Nov 2012, 16:12 5

Google Wallet is all about wireless mobile transactions using NFC and an embedded credit card, but information...

Catch Microsoft’s Build 2012 sessions in their entirety 05 Nov 2012, 02:08

Developers and non-developers alike will find some of these videos interesting. All sessions from the...

Google Wallet headed to your physical wallet 01 Nov 2012, 16:04 17

A leak of Google's upcoming Wallet app shows off massive changes, including person to person payments...

Isis up and running in two locations, Austin and Salt Lake City 22 Oct 2012, 12:06 8

As expected, the Isis mobile payment service owned by Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T has started service...

ISIS pilot program finally launching on T-Mobile Oct. 22 15 Oct 2012, 20:59

It has been delayed a number of times, but it looks like the ISIS mobile payment system is finally getting...

Apple inks deal to adopt fingerprint-recognition technology 03 Oct 2012, 04:34 11

We're slowly gathering evidence suggesting that Apple is looking to introduce a fingerprint-based security...

Verizon's Samsung GALAXY Nexus no longer supports Google Wallet 15 Sep 2012, 13:16 21

Just when it appeared that things were looking up for Google Wallet with usage doubling over the last...

PayPal for Android updated to version 4.0.0.3 04 Sep 2012, 06:02

The latest update to PayPal's Android app takes the software to 4.0.0.3 and brings the look of the software...

Should you or shouldn't you expect NFC in the iPhone 5? 29 Aug 2012, 08:56 27

Yesterday, we broke down the engineering reasons why you shouldn't be expecting NFC to be part of the...

Google planning to make Google Wallet into... a wallet 28 Aug 2012, 15:04 37

For those of you who noticed, Google didn't name its mobile payment system something like Google Pay,...

iZettle mobile credit card payment solution now available for Android, still in dispute with Visa Europe 24 Aug 2012, 07:22

For those outside of Europe, iZettle is an European mobile merchant card solution akin to Square in the...

Walmart, Target and 7-Eleven poised to announce their own mobile payment system 15 Aug 2012, 04:30 2

As if we didn't have enough mobile payment initiatives and company agglomerations, now the huge retailers...

Square joins Starbucks' largest mobile payment network 09 Aug 2012, 19:08 4

Mobile payments is a huge new market that no one is quite sure what to do with yet. Everyone has a different...

Apple said to be buying The Fancy to get its general e-commerce business going 04 Aug 2012, 23:35 23

Apple is rumored to be ready to get its general commerce business out of the gate with a purchase of...