Tag: transaction
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PayPal UK Launching ‘Chip and Pin’ Pairing for Smartphones This Summer
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A credit card reading system for PayPal transactions is currently being trialled with small businesses and traders..
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PayPal Here: Smartphone-Based Credit Card Payment System Coming to UK
Our regular readers may remember the Gadget Helpline’s recent coverage of Square. It’s a clever little gadget which attaches to any Android and Apple iOS smartphone or tablet and allows credit card swiping for small companies and independent businesses, this enabling them to cut out the cost of running expensive phone-line connected payment methods and…
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Visa Announces NFC Digital Wallet
The recently announced Google Wallet might have been given Visa’s stamp of approval, but the credit card giant also has their own digital payment system in the works. Confirmed by Steve Perry, Visa’s commercial director in Europe, Visa is set to launch it’s own virtual wallet at the end of Summer 2012. Perry confirmed the…
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Orange, Barclaycard & Samsung team up for Wave 578 mobile payment handset
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Bright ideas coming from UK Network Orange and Barclaycard with the announcement of the Samsung-built Wave 578 smartphone – featuring that NFC technology which allows for mobile payments to be send via the handsets. The Samsung Wave 578 is coming our way in the next few weeks and also features a diminutive 3.2” display,…
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Orange, Barclaycard & Samsung team up for Wave 578 mobile payment handset
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Bright ideas coming from UK Network Orange and Barclaycard with the announcement of the Samsung-built Wave 578 smartphone – featuring that NFC technology which allows for mobile payments to be send via the handsets. The Samsung Wave 578 is coming our way in the next few weeks and also features a diminutive 3.2” display,…
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PayPal UK Twitter hack raises alarm for customer security
Cause for concern today, as worryingly PayPal’s UK-based Twitter has been hacked into with the company logo tampered with and a series of mocking tweets made from the account. It’s not yet expected that the intrusion has gone so far as the payment accounts infrastructure. As most will know, PayPal is an online method of…