Westpac joins Samsung Pay
Westpac is offering the Samsung Pay mobile payments service to its debit and credit card customers, following an agreement between the organisations.
Westpac is offering the Samsung Pay mobile payments service to its debit and credit card customers, following an agreement between the organisations.
Aussie banks hit back at Apple in the latest round of the ongoing Apple Pay collective negotiation stoush.
Apple takes aim at Aussie banks in ongoing Apple Pay collective negotiation stoush.
For the first time globally, a group of financial institutions have banded together to seek permission from a competition regulator to intercept Apple.
Mint Wireless has recorded a $4.2 million underlying net loss in its full year results as it seek to ramp up its rollout of the company's mobile payment platform in A/NZ.
Samsung is chasing new areas of growth in the enterprise space as its Knox mobile security platform is being "put through its paces" by prospective customers. In Australia the South Korean company is focussing on smartphones, LED lighting, and printing.
The Commonwealth Bank has released an update to its Commbank iPhone app that will give customers access to near field communication (NFC) services for the first time.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has announced an upcoming banking application for iOS and Android devices that will allow users to wirelessly pay for goods and services using NFC (Near Field Communication) technology, but it won't be available for another few months.
You've bumped your phone, you've bumped your speaker, and you may have even bumped your laptop or printer, but you've never been able to bump your desktop--until now. Asus has announced the M70 PC, a tower the company claims is the first NFC-enabled desktop PC. (We'll give 'em the nod for being the first NFC-enabled tower PC, but HP's Spectre One all-in-one had NFC all the way back in January.)
Linkett is redefining "TV advertising". The Canadian company has created a digital signage solution that detects a shopper walking by a TV and lures them to stop and interact with ads by offering them content they can grab with their phone.
Intel has announced it has joined the board of directors of the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP), a consortium developing technology for wirelessly charging electronic devices. However, Intel said last year that Ultrabooks capable of wireless charging would arrive in 2013--a promise the company has yet to make good on.
Consumer and home electronics vendor, Sony Australia, will soon be opening a new Sony kiosk in Parramatta’s Westfield Shopping Centre, near Sydney.
The rise of near-field communications (NFC) has been part of the discussion in the mobile industry for years. Unfortunately, the technology hasn't generated much more than discussion to this point.
At CES 2013, the Wireless Power Consortium displayed dozens of devices that were designed to the Qi wireless charging standard, suggesting that 2013 may be the year wireless charging becomes a feature consumers expect to come standard in new smartphones.
Nokia has revealed its first Windows Phone 8 smartphones, the Nokia Lumia 920 and the Nokia Lumia 820.