Delineating the Mobile Value Chain: A Holistic View of Mobile Payment

As excitement surrounding mobile payments develops, most of the focus has been placed on the wallet apps such as Google Wallet and Isis jockeying for position. However, the success of a mobile payments system will depend on far more than which piece of software will be used on the most devices. A fully...

Isis Selects Gemalto for NFC and Mobile Payment Services

Gemalto has been selected by Isis to secure its mobile commerce platform through Gemalto’s Allynis Trusted Service Manager (TSM) solution. Isis, the mobile commerce joint venture between AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, will provide consumers and...

Why Google Wallet Will Own the Mobile Payment Space

Almost four months after Google first revealed its new mobile payments application, Google Wallet, the app is finally rolling out to the masses this week. Unfortunately, only a few smartphones – including the Samsung (SEO: 005930) Nexus S and Nexus S 4G – currently have the revolutionary chip built in....

Report Says ISIS to Invest $100M to Challenge Google Wallet

With summer days dwindling, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has less than two weeks to make good on its pledge to launch its Google Wallet mobile payment service. Google Wallet is a mobile application service that will let owners of Sprint’s Samsung Nexus S 4G smartphones use their phone as a wallet at some 20...

Google Acquisition of Motorola Mobility May Speed Mobile Payment Plans

With Google’s announcement of its agreement to acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings, the search giant has potentially turbocharged its mobile payment plans. Where before, the Google Wallet was only set up to work with the Sprint Nexus S phone (most other telecom providers have joined the ISIS mobile...

B.Shark Holds Forum on Who Will Play a Leading Roll in Mobile Payments

B.Shark, a Chinese company offering worldwide mobile payment solutions, recently collaborated with SPforum, the largest microblog dedicated to the Mobile Internet industry in China, to hold a forum about who will play the leading role in worldwide mobile payments. The discussion was lively, and experts from...

How ISIS Consortium Screwed Itself Out of Mobile Payments Market

There has been a huge scrum amongst the smartphone players to capture the market for phone-based purchases. In a very surprising move, the major US-based carriers simply gave up. Isis, the mobile payment system sponsored by Verizon, AT&T and TMobile, announced that it had signed deals with Visa,...

375 Million+ Mobile Payment Users by 2015, Says Report

Mobile payments are an emerging opportunity to make payment from or with a mobile handset. While a success in certain countries and with fringe audiences already, mobile payments have not yet achieved success on a global scale. However, it is anticipated that this will begin to change in 2011 as the...

Isis Mobile Payments Group Signs First Merchants

The new Isis mobile-payments venture has recruited some merchants as it builds the acceptance side of its network, the Isis executive overseeing the merchant effort said on Wednesday. “We do have signed merchants at this point,” Jim Stapleton, head of sales and account management at Isis and a veteran of...

Verizon’s Ryan Huges to Join Isis Mobile Commerce Network

Verizon Wireless VP of business development Ryan Hughes is leaving his position at the largest wireless carrier in the US. Hughes has opted to come on board as chief marketing officer for Isis, the upstart mobile commerce network. via Mobile Marketing...

Isis Mobile Payment Network Annonced by ATT, T-Mobile, and Verizon

Payment by mobile phone is one step closer now, as AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless have announced the launch of a  joint venture called Isis, to build a national network for subscribers to make purchase in physical retail stores using their smartphones. Isis’  initial focus will be on...