Tag: Contactless
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Rise Of Contactless Payment
The rise of contactless payment is spreading. Cash has been around for quite a while now. We’ve all used it, grown up with it, most of us cannot imagine a world without cold hard cash. Well, it could soon be time to wake up and smell the coffee! We all know those times when you’re…
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Android Pay is Now Available in the UK
It seems Google’s contactless payment service Android Pay has come to the UK a lot sooner than expected! Earlier today, Google tweeted “Download #AndroidPay today from @GooglePlay. Now available in the UK” – with this announcement a link to the Google Play Store page for the app was also included. Similar to the main competitor Apple…
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Contactless Card Pay Limit To Rise To £30
The UK has had access to contactless card payment for ages now, and it’s really, really fun. With a tap of your card and a corresponding beep from the machine, pin entry is made obselete. It’s quick, easy, and it feels really really futuristic. However, a £20 limit has been imposed on the technology since…
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New Mastercard Scans Fingerprints
We’ve been hearing a lot about secure wireless NFC payment methods lately, most frequently following Apple’s announcement of Apple Pay, a wireless feature which allows payment from multiple cards using the iPhone 6 and iPad Air 2. Also, we’ve seen multiple new services heading for both the US and the UK. Here in the UK…
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iPhone 5 to Include NFC Wireless Connectivity
Prototype NFC iPhones are to be found hidden deep within Apple’s Cupertino research labs…
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NFC payment tech coming to Windows Phone next year
Microsoft’s Andy Lees confirms the technology will be a feature in future handsets
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Orange and Barclaycard team up to bring contactless payments to the UK
Orange and Barclaycard have today launched ‘Quick Tap’, a contactless payment system that utilises both Orange mobile phones and the Mastercard PayPass contactless point of sale technology. The two companies paired up in 2009 and announced they would be developing a contactless payment service for mobile phone users in the UK, and today that service…