Tag: Field
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Apple NFC Chip Only Works With Apple Pay
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Near field communication news now, and we’ve heard Apple is going to only allow the use of the iPhone 6’s internal NFC chip for Apple Pay purposes. The new payment method allows wireless payment with cards digitally stored on the iPhone. The reports coming in mention that the NFC chip might one day become usable…
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Apple and Starbucks’ latest blend brings mobile payments to UK high street coffee house
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After offering UK and Ireland customers free iTunes tracks with a hot beverage through high street caffeine temple Starbucks a month or so ago, Apple is once again working on a special blend of coffee and tech by offering to help pay for your tea break. But before you get excited and rush off to…
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BlackBerry Bold Touch (9900) set for August release through Play.com?
RIM’s BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 isn’t officially set to drop till September 15th – but if online retailer Play.com can be believed we may get to grips with the dual-functioning QWERTY keyboard and touchscreen smartphone more than a month earlier. Suggesting the handset – also known as the Bold 9900 – will be released on…
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Google NFC payment scheme to roll out in the US – United Kingdom next in line?
Trials of a mobile payment system through Google are expected to begin in a number of US cities – kicking off speculation that we UK residents could be next in line. The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is currently working hard with developers and will begin to roll out of the scheme which will…
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Android 2.3 Gingerbread comes to HTC Desire range late April
It’s been reported that mobile operator Three will be releasing the latest version of Google Android software- that’s version 2.3, the tastily titled “Gingerbread” – on HTC Desire handsets as early as next month. Living up to the promise made in February that the newest update to Google’s Android platform would appear in the second quarter of 2011, a…