by admin | Dec 16, 2015 | Mobile App, Mobile Commerce, news, NFC, smartphone
Sixty-one percent of shoppers want to use mobile pay this holiday season. Once upon a time, a man said, “As far as I'm concerned, [technological] progress peaked with frozen pizza.” Well, that person spoke way too soon because now consumers have the...
by admin | Dec 4, 2015 | Digital Wallets, Mobile Commerce, news, NFC
At a recent HCE Payments conference attended by Helixion there was an interesting debate about what form would drive contactless payments forward: mobile or wearables. One opinion was that it would not be the mobile phone but “wearable devices”...
by admin | Dec 1, 2015 | Digital Wallets, news, NFC
Launching in the US, China, Brazil, and Switzerland next year Swatch has announced that it's bringing contactless payments to its forthcoming Bellamy smartwatch in the US next year. The Swiss company, which is the largest watchmaker in the world by...
by admin | Nov 11, 2015 | biometrics, EMV, news, NFC
EMV is far from being a new technology. In fact, European countries have been using EMV chip-enabled credit cards and processing terminals for nearly 30 years. Despite all the noise around the recent liability shift deadline for merchants to become EMV compliant, this...