The global appetite for contactless technologies shows no sign of abating as the 2012 Contactless Intelligence Contactless & Mobile Awards honour achievements across a wide range of sectors and countries throughout Europe and further a field. Now in its fifth year, the Contactless & Mobile Awards (this year sponsored by Visa Europe and Telefonica O2) [...]

With so much energy going into NFC payment applications for mobile payment solutions, there is a vast number of payment apps available in the market; each with their own distinct characteristics. From mobile wallets to pure payment solutions, this category aims to reward one company for doing the most to bring mobile payments to the [...]

This kind of news tends to come in waves. First the highly positive and then the fairly negative. Especially when we are talking about mobile payment acceptance. After having a slew of highly positive reports on acceptance of the new payments solutions late last year, the tide has turned and now (apparently) consumers aren’t so [...]

A recent Google blog started with the words, “We’re hearing from people at check-out counters throughout the country that paying with your phone is a little like magic. Just look at the ecstatic reaction on the faces of our friends who made their first Google Wallet purchases last Thursday.” The video below shows just that. [...]

Considering that this was the week that Google Wallet finally launched we thought we would let the engineers finally speak out! Just kidding. this is a video released by Google and Rob von Behren and Jonathan Wall, Founding Engineers on Google Wallet, introduce the app that makes your phone your wallet. Learn more at http://www.google.com/wallet