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Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover all expected to offer apps Four major credit card companies are working with the Isis mobile wallet venture to install mobile payment security applications on
hydrojug canada upcoming NFC-ready smartphones in the U.S.Visa expects to license its own software, called PayWave, to the upcoming near-field communication NFC smartphones sold by the three wireless carriers in the Isis consortium, a Visa spokeswoman said yesterday.Isis, comprised of Verizon Wireless, ATT and T-Mobile USA, announced plans earlier this year to roll out contactless payments using NFC-ready smartphones in trials in early 2012 in Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas. The scheme would replace credit card and cash payments with an specially equipped smartphone passed near an NFC terminal. Phone
owala users would basically have the same credit from a bank as with an existing credit card.In late July, Isis announced it would launch mobile payments with Visa, MasterCard, Discover and A
stanley usa merican Express, but didnrsquo;t offer many details on how the relationships would work. All four of the credit networks offer contactless payment software, which today is more widely used on cards containing chips than in smartphones. Isis officials said in July that having all four on board will increase consumer and merchant acceptance of NFC-ready smartphones used to make point-of-sale purchases. Isis still must forge relationships with banks that work with the credit networks and has not announced Gpfi Microsoft s summer from hell continues: Windows 8 growth stalls
U.K. carriers plan to block mobile phones and their SIM subscriber identity module cards within 48 hours of when customers report phones stolen, an industry trade group said on Friday. The Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum, a group
stanley quencher made up of all the operators in the U.K. plus some handset makers and retailers, created the plan with the police and the government. The operators have agreed that 80 percent of all stolen handsets will be barred from use on their networks within 48 hours of a user reporting a phone stolen. They said theyrsquo;ll shut off the SIM card, which stores account information including call credit, within 24 hours. The operators can block the use of phones because their networks rec
stanley mug ognize a unique number that is associated with the phone. The operators agreed in 2002 to set up a database that would help them to share such information in the case of stolen phones but at the time, no measurements were put in place to monitor how quickly the operators were barring phones, said Jack Wraith, chairman of the Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum. Last year, an independent test that wasnrsquo;t released to the public studied how
polene borse quickly the operators reacted to reports of stolen phones over a five-day period. It found that within the first three days, 30 percent of phones had been blocked and after five days, 75 percent were blocked, he said. The operators also agreed to create a testing process to ensure that the goals are being met and launch a marketing pr
