by Tony Poulos | Mar 25, 2011 | Blog
In April 2009, RIM’s fledgling BlackBerry App World virtual storefront offered PayPal as its sole billing mechanism. RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said back then, to the great relief of telcos, that it was working to introduce carrier billing options sometime in the... by Tony Poulos | Oct 4, 2010 | Blog
Just after publication of my prediction that war was breaking out between the major players in the NFC and mobile payments world, three mobile operators and three banks in the Netherlands announced collaboration on a unified m-payments system. The announcement came... by Tony Poulos | Sep 26, 2010 | Blog
NFC, or near field technology, should be a raging success outside of Korea and Japan, but it simply is not. This is despite efforts by the GSMA to get the ball rolling with CSPs worldwide and the finance and transport industries agreeing and the profound benefits of...