We have written much in our weekly news letters about the need for better education of  both retailers and consumers when it comes to contactless payments. After all, following the search term ‘contactless’ on twitter gives a good indication how many people receive their contactless payment cards, look forward to using them and then are [...]

Isis™, the mobile commerce joint venture created by AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, today announced the first of its local merchant partners across Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah. In addition, Aéropostale, The Coca-Cola Company, Champs Sports, Dillard’s, Foot Locker, Jamba Juice and Macy’s are among the first national merchants to join [...]

Barclaycard Wireless Festival 2012 is to be the first music event in the UK to be fully contactless enabled, giving music lovers the ability to enjoy the experience without having to carry cash. All vendors at the festival will accept contactless payments, allowing customers to spend less time queuing and more time listening to music. [...]

Claire Maslen from O2 took time out from the launch of O2′s mobile wallet to speak to C-ITV about what this will mean for payments in the future.

SIMalliance Board Director, Paul Naldrett speaks to C-ITV at the Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference about the role of the SIMalliance within the smart payment sector, the organisations position on NFC/Mobile Payments and what the SIMalliance is doing to help advance the market for mobile payments.

VeriFone Systems, Inc. today announced that New Balance and Samsonite have joined the ranks of major retail brands that have selected VeriFone GlobalBay’s Mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) solution. VeriFone GlobalBay mPOS makes it possible engage the customer in a more meaningful way by untethering the store associate from a fixed location POS register to [...]

Ogone, specialists in online payment services this week became the first European payment services provider to partner with MasterCard to offer PayPass Wallet. PayPass Wallet, launched by MasterCard on May 7th is a new global solution for banks, merchants and partners that will make it faster and easier for consumers to make purchases in stores [...]

BOKU, Inc., the up and coming global player in online payments, have announced anagreement with Sprint that will allow Sprint customers to easily and securely charge online purchases to their Sprint wireless bill through a simple two-step authorization process. Sprint customers will be able to make purchases online from BOKU’s extensive merchant network of Web-based [...]