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Apple Pay: Using Its Midas Touch to Reinvent Mobile Payments
With Apple Pay, Apple is once again doing what it does best: reinventing existing markets, products and business models by delivering a simpler, more stylish and more streamlined user experience. Let's face it: Apple has a knack for making things frictionless and more exciting.
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Banks, Mobile Carriers Treading Carefully with Digital Wallets #appsworld
Mobile payments may become a US$ 90 billion industry by 2017, but banks and mobile carriers in the US are moving slowly on things like digital wallet technology in mobile phones.
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RIM Revs Up For BlackBerry 10 Launch With Apps and NFC
The news is fairly surging out of RIM this week as the company prepares for the launch of the Blackberry 10 platform and devices that will decide its future in the marketplace.
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Forrester Predicts Mobile Payments to Reach $90 Billion by 2017
Like paying for stuff with a mobile phone? Then you are part of the zeitgeist, because US mobile payments were nearly US$ 13 billion in 2012, and Forrester predicts Americans will spend US$ 90 billion by 2017 via mobile.
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Google's Nexus 4 Android Phone Details Leak Early
UK retailer Carphone Warehouse has spilled the beans on the next Google superphone that will ship at the end of this month with cutting-edge hardware and the latest version of the Android OS.
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Apple iPhone, iPad Might Soon Have Fingerprint Authentication via AuthenTec Acquisition
Apple's iPhone and iPad have become a mainstay in today's enterprise setting, in view of the higher level of security that the iOS platform offers over main rival Android. But with Apple's recent acquisition of security company AuthenTec Inc, future releases of the iPhone, iPad and the MacBook might be
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Key Mobility Factors for the Second Half of 2012
As the divide between personal and work mobile devices erodes, let's take some time to explore some companies and ideas that may drive changes in the mobile world for the rest of 2012.
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A Week in Google: Android 4.0 Updates, Open Wallets and Good Prospects
For once, I haven't read about Google upsetting someone this week, is the company taking it easy in the run up to Spring Break? Instead, there's useful new features in Android updates, a push on Google Wallet and the company is seeing positive corporate signs in a highly competitive market.
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Mobile Enterprise: Mobile Choice, Competition, Innovation
This week, the mobile enterprise learns how to enhance the mobile experience for consumers, understands the state of the American mobile marketplace and schedules their time on paper. For companies that are using mobile devices to enhance their shopping experience, OpinionLab, the VOC listening solutions provider, has a few
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Further Apple iPhone 5 Rumors Stoke the Fire, You Can Almost Smell It
Another batch of Apple (news, site ) iPhone snippets suggest that the launch is getting closer and the tech is getting sexier. Ready For a Fall? Apple definitely no longer has its own way in the smartphone world.
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Google Launches Wallet NFC Payments Program, Get Ready To Pay-on-the-Go
Google (news, site) held a press conference in New York today to announce its fledgling Near-Field Communication (NFC) services, heralding a new age of customer loyalty, deals and shop snooping. Pay on the Go Google has just announced the start of NFC pay-with-your-mobile services in New
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iPhone 5 Launching in September, But What Will It Offer?
Due to the worst unforseen circumstances in Japan, Apple's (news, site ) new iPhone will be a little late this year, but what will the beast be packing? Five Months, Counting Apple's iPhone revisions usually ship in the summer, but due to the trauma that Japan is facing,
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Mobile Enterprise: E-Payment, Mobile Malware, ePrint
During two conferences, some key mobile news came out -- namely, that mobile malware will be a concern for Android and that mobile payments are coming sooner than expected. Mobile Payments Become a Reality Last week, the Mobile World Congress wrapped up a week of visionary keynotes, action-provoking panel discussions
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Japan Social Network Mixi Supports Real-World Tagging via NFC
Facebook is not particularly popular in Japan. But this highly connected nation is no stranger to social networking. In fact, Mixi (news, site ), one of the more popular networks, is adding a system for easy tagging of real-world items using Near Field Communication.
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