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Mobile commerce is rising, but most still don’t make purchases from their device
Twenty years ago, the Internet revolution was about to begin. People were ready to surf the web, write HTML pages and chat on IRC. Now, we are at the forefront of another revolution, a mobile revolution that, among other things, will let us shop and share from our mobile phones and tablets. This oncoming wave of mobile commerce is summarized in a new infographic from Hybris that presents the top ten trends in smartphone shopping. Several of these trends make you realize how far we have come, and how far we need to go. One the one hand, it’s unbelievable that Groupon, … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Shopping? You’re probably using your phone to help
We all know that the holiday shopping season can be a lot of things: expensive, fun, stressful and others. Whatever you were feeling during the holiday shopping season, there’s a decent chance you were using a cell phone or smartphone during the process, according to new data from Pew Internet. The report found that 52 percent of U.S. adults used their cell phone in a certain manner while shopping. This includes calling a friend to ask about a product, looking up a product online or looking up reviews of the … Read more
Marin Perez
Obama campaign using Square for fundraising
With the U.S. presidential election coming up, you’ll likely be hit up by campaigns to donate some money and if the request is coming from the Obama campaign, they may be able to take your credit-card donation via an iPhone, iPad or Android thanks to Square. For those who don’t know, Square is a payment platform which enables businesses to take credit card and debit cards at a lower cost than the traditional methods, which include hefty cuts of the transaction and costly hardware. Square provides companies a free dongle … Read more
Marin Perez
Rumor: Microsoft ditching its Microsoft Points virtual currency by year’s end
One of the banes of my existence has been the Microsoft Point system that’s used to purchase anything digital from a number of Microsoft’s online marketplaces including Zune, Xbox Live Marketplace, and Windows Phone Marketplace. According to a recent rumor published by insidemobileapps.com, it looks like Microsoft may finally be listening to its customers and plans to doing away with its horrid Microsoft Points system. If you’re unfamiliar with the Microsoft Points system, it’s a virtual currency that Microsoft decided to implement with the release of the Xbox 360 back … Read more
Daniel Perez
PayPal plans to buck credit card companies with more In-Store Payments
PayPal plans to let shoppers pay with its service in more than 2,000 stores as part of an effort to win away customers from credit-card companies. This push for mobile probably shouldn’t be surprising, as we know that its owners eBay also is going big on mobile. The company has already deployed its new service in a trial at 51 Home Depot’s, primarily in the San Francisco area, according to Anuj Nayar, a spokesman for PayPal. The giant e-commerce payment business feels really confident about this being a game changer in its future … Read more
Charles West
BlackBerry announces NFC-enabled mobile wallet app under Turkcell
There’s no secret that Research In Motion’s future has been cloudy for awhile now, but underneath the fog is a company who’s quietly been equipping many of its devices with NFC capability. Although a chip resides in some of it devices, a mobile wallet application has yet to appear on the BlackBerry OS until now. The BlackBerry maker along with Turkish cell phone network Turkcell partnered up to launch the Cep-T Cüzdan mobile payment system on the Bold 9900. Much like Google Wallet, RIM’s system will work with MasterCard PayPass terminals both domestically … Read more
Charles West
Visa certifies NFC-enabled smartphones from Samsung, LG and RIM for use with Visa payWave
Visa and Visa Europe announced that NFC-enabled smartphones from Samsung, LG and RIM have been certified for use with Visa’s mobile application for payments at the point-of-sale – Visa payWave. The devices that got Visa’s seal of approval include the Samsung Galaxy S II (NFC model), LG Optimus NET NFC, BlackBerry Bold 9900, BlackBerry Bold 9790, BlackBerry Curve 9360 and BlackBerry Curve 9380. It is said that Visa’s certification of these smartphones paves the way for mobile device manufacturers, mobile operators and retailers to partner with financial institutions to offer … Read more
Dusan Belic
Amazon launches iPad Kindle eBook store
Amazon introduced a Kindle store optimized specifically for the iPad today. It’s not a native app available in the App Store, so don’t think Amazon gave into Apple’s strict in-app purchasing rules. Rather, the iPad-optimized Kindle store is accessible at amazon.com/iPadKindleStore. It only works when typed into Safari on iPad. Once there, you are greeted with a horizontal list of book covers representing the editors’ picks. In the left column is all the main categories of eBooks as well as some of Amazon’s featured sections like New York Times Bestsellers, … Read more
George Tinari
Mobile payments will soar in the next three years (Infographic)
I have a friend who’s not very tech savvy. She not on any social network and doesn’t use a computer all that much. Ironically, she’s now at the forefront of mobile technology because she doesn’t use cash. Her paychecks are direct deposited, she uses debit or credit cards for purchases, and she makes most of her payments online. Now that she has a smartphone, she is one of 141.1 million users who used mobile payments last year. And this is just the tip of the iceberg for mobile payments. According to an infographic from the … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Google Wallet hack works on Verizon Galaxy Nexus
Well this didn’t take long. Google Wallet is now unofficially available for the Verizon Galaxy Nexus. This is truly ironic considering all of the bad turmoil that has been going on for the past few days, which allegedly has Big Red blocking the payment service. Thanks to the hard-working Android community people are able to get their hands on the Wallet service, but only if you’re willing to root your phone and follow a relatively simple guide. What’s even cooler about this back door way into the Google Wallet app … Read more
Charles West
Google Wallet coming to the UK in Q1 2012, rest of Europe soon after?
Earlier this year, on May 26th to be precise, Google announced Google Wallet and their intent to render your current wallet totally useless. It took a few months, but on September 19th the service became available to the public. In order to use it however you needed to be a Sprint customer using a Google Nexus S, and while you don’t need to be a Citibank customer to actually use Google Wallet, your life got a hell of a lot easier if you were. Sadly not much has changed since … Read more
