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Placecast unveiled an interesting solution to mobile payments today called ShopAlerts Wallet. It’s an HTML5 mobile web app that consumers can use to find local offers from various brands, plus process payments and store credit cards, tickets, and other payment information. ShopAlerts Wallet isn’t a direct app that users can navigate too. Instead, Placecast makes…
For the past week or so, there have been rumblings of Sprint working on its own NFC-based mobile payment service. Well, the folks over at Android Central has come across some snapshots of what The Now Network has planned. In the screenshots obtained by the tech site, you can see support from the likes of…
Orange UK is in the midst of a mobile ticketing trial with rail and bus operator, Stagecoach. The two companies unveiled the mobile contactless transport ticketing system, which could lead to a nationwide rollout across select bus and rail services during next year. Trial participants in Cambridgeshire, each of which got a Quick Tap enabled…
Someone in Nokia’s marketing department is about to get into a lot of trouble. The company’s YouTube channel accidentally posted a video demoing a new product, the Lumia 610 NFC. Said video was pulled down immediately, but that didn’t stop the guys at Nokia Buff from downloading it to their local machine and then reuploading…
Berg Insight is out with a new report, looking at the shipments of NFC-enabled devices. According to the research company, global sales of such products increased ten-fold in 2011 to 30 million units and are set to reach 700 million units in 2016, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 87.8%. At the…
Microelectronics Technology Inc. (MTI), which is a global leader in the supply of UHF RFID readers, unveiled the MINI ME RFID reader for Android Ice Cream Sandwich devices, allowing users to read and write all EPC Class 1 Gen2 compliant tags at close range. Alongside the device itself, the company will also provide a “low…
Ask anyone in the technology industry about where they think the future of mobile payments is headed and they’ll all probably give the same answer: near-field communication. PayPal has been a successful pioneer in online payments but it disagrees that the future of mobile payment will rest with NFC. That’s somewhat of a contrary view,…
Near Field Communication technology, NFC for short, is something we’ve been drooling over for years here at IntoMobile Headquarters. Besides the obvious mobile payments scenario, the one where we pretend that we live in a future where we don’t have to carry a wallet, what we really want is to be able to move information…
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.…
Sprint today announced its latest Android smartphone, the LG Viper, to join its family handsets. The Viper will be one of the first to use The Now Network’s forthcoming Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. The device also sports Android 2.3 Gingerbread, a 4.0-inch WVGA touchscreen, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, a primary 5.0-megapixel camera and front-facing VGA camera,…