Collective POS Launches Mobile Payment Solution for Apple, Blackberry and Android Smartphone Devices

Collective Point of Sale Solutions, a Canadian provider of payment processing services, has launched VirtualMerchant Mobile, a mobile P.O.S solution that allows small and medium-sized businesses to process credit card payments using an existing smartphone device. “We worked very hard to deliver a...

MasterCard Demonstrates Google Wallet for Mobile Payments

MasterCard demonstrated the Google Wallet application, which is scheduled to launch soon.  Running on Sprint’s Nexus S 4G — with a planned expansion to multiple devices — users can connect a Citi MasterCard account to the service, and tap-to-pay at any retail location outfitted with a...

comScore Reports U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share for July, 2011

comScore, Inc. has released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending July 2011. The study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers and found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with...

BOKU 1-Tap Mobile Billing Live in 56 Countries

BOKU, Inc., an online mobile payments provider, has released the production version of its 1-Tap Mobile Billing for Android, now live in 56 countries. The developer SDK opens up significantly expanded revenue opportunities to Android developers via direct carrier billing for in-app purchases, along with a...

PaymentOne Launches Android Mobile Payment Solution

PaymentOne Corp. has launched an Android Payment Solution and Android Developer SDK, which is an extension of its core Mobile Payments Platform. The company provides phone-enabled payments for landline, broadband, and mobile carrier billing. The PayOne Android solution allows consumers to simply click and...

Many Financial Institutions Favor iPhone for Banking App’s, Says Analyst

While Android has made huge strides against the iPhone in terms of smartphone usage,according to Aviva Litan, an Analyst at information technology research and advisory company  Gartner, Inc., banks are more comfortable with the iPhone for their banking apps. And even then, she writes, the mobile apps that...

300,000+ Android Phone Activations Per Day, Says Schmidt

According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, more than 300,000 Android phones are activated every day, double the number of activations reported just six months ago. Canalys reported that in Q4 2010 the Android O.S. was the world’s best-selling smartphone platform, dethroning Nokia’s Symbian from the...

PaymentOne to Demonstrate Android Payment Solution at 2011 Mobile World Congress

PaymentOne Corp. will demonstrate its latest integrated mobile payment solution for Android based on the company’s patented Propensity-to-Pay fraud and security technology. Called “PayOne,” the Android solution will be demonstrated at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona,...

Intuit to Develop Mobile Payment App for Android 3.0 Honeycomb

Intuit GoPayment, which lets anyone who sells products or services get paid via mobile devices, is one of the first mobile payment apps being developed for Android 3.0, Honeycomb. Building on the capabilities of Honeycomb, GoPayment allows people and businesses selling products or services to process credit...

Google Moves Even Stronger Into Mobile Marketing and Payments with Acquisition of Zetawire

Back in November, Google’s Eric Schmidt teased the crowd at Web 2.0 about Google’s plans for NFC mobile payments using the Android OS, and introduced the Samsung Nexus S running Gingerbread and an NFC chip by NXP. It turns out that as early as August, according to the 451 Group, a technology...

Android Gingerbread NFC is Only One-Way Communication

It turns out that the NFC capabilities in Android Gingerbread phones isn’t quite everything we thought it would be. According to a blog post by Jaroslav Stekl on the website Android Police, the NFC with Gingerbread is currently only one-way. It can read data, but not transmit. He adds that the chip...

Samsung Announces New NFC Chip with Flash Memory

Samsung has announced a new NFC chip with flash memory, adding to the momentum around Near Field Communication (NFC) technology that will enable point-of-sale payments via mobile phone. NFC is a short-range (up to 10cm or 4inches), high frequency wireless communication technology which allows devices such...

LG Star 4-inch Smartphone Details Leaked (Photos)

Rumors and some leaked photos of the new LG “Star” 4-inch smartphone reveal that the phone has a screen resolution of 800×480, an 8 mp front-facing camera, the Tegra 2 processor, 1080p video,  and a 15000mAh battery, and will run stock gingerbread. This is not necessarily the official name...

Top Smartphones for the Holidays

Smartphone reviews and top smartphone models available by carrier. If you’re upgrading your smartphone for 2011, here’s a list of the hottest smart phones for the holidays. Aaccording to research firm Gartner, Android made up 25.5 percent of smartphone sales to end users in the third quarter, up...

Report Shows Majority of Top 100 Financial Institutions Offer Mobile Banking

A recent report covering mobile banking reveals that over half of the Top 100 financial institutions offer mobile banking services as of September 2010. Surprisingly, this activity is not concentrated among the Top 25 or even Top 50, with many smaller banks actively utilizing vendor capabilities to offer...

Google to Integrate NFC in “Gingerbread” Android OS

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has indicated that the coming “Gingerbread” Android release will have integrated Near Field Communication (NFC), which will allow for interaction with hardware devices, and may well lead to a revolution in proximity payment processing via mobile phones, and a new boom of...