Samsung Electronics and Visa have debuted the Samsung GALAXY S III, will be Samsung’s Olympic Games Phone during the London 2012 Games. A limited edition showcase device enabled with Visa’s mobile payment application, Visa payWave, will be available for Samsung and Visa sponsored athletes and trialists, making it possible to buy merchandise with a wave of the [...]

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 [...]

Visa Europe this week confirmed that its new digital wallet service, V.me by Visa, will launch to an initial group of consumers in the UK, Spain and France in autumn 2012. Today also sees the announcement of payments processor WorldPay as a key development partner in the delivery of the V.me service in the UK. [...]

We must admit that somehow this new TV spot from Visa featuring Usain Bolt slipped by us completely. Featuring Usain Bolt running across London using his Visa contactless payment card wherever possible, it’s a nice slick video and well worth a watch. So here..

O2 has announced the launch of their Mobile wallet and we, at Contactless Intelligence were lucky enough to hear about it first at the Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference! To re-cap on what this mobile wallet is; a seamless and secure digital wallet service that will deliver the benefits of mobile money to more UK consumers than [...]

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) [...]

By Visa Europe Visa Europe has always led the way with the creation and rollout of new payment technologies. Today is no different. Our vision of the future of payments is well underway and we’ve committed to investing €100 million per year in the creation of these new technologies. We’re developing and rolling out a [...]

Neil Garner, CEO of Proxama reasons why 2012 is the year that NFC makes its breakthrough This time last year, many people speculated that 2011 was going to be the year that near field  communications (NFC) would hit the big time and become recognised as the new ‘must have’ in consumers’ phones. The prospect of [...]