By: Leslie Primack
Posted: 12/5/07
You and several friends go out to dinner. The check comes. You glance at each other, cringe and start the unsavory task of breaking twenties and gathering the correct amounts of cash.
Now, imagine taking out your cell phone and directly wiring the money to the restaurant, no credit cards or cash necessary. […]

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CPNI has announced an agreement with PROSA (Promocion y Operacion, S.A. de C.V.), the largest provider of electronic transactions in Latin America, in which PROSA will provide financial institutions in Mexico with the centralized payments processing backbone for CPNI’s Phone Authorized Transfer (PAT) mobile payment solutions.
PAT global, bank-branded mobile solutions enable bank customers to make […]

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21 Nov, 2007, 0431 hrs IST, TNN

MUMBAI: Mastercard is getting ready to tap the unbanked population in the country using the mobile phone customer base which has been seeing a rapid growth. The sharp domestic growth has made India a focal point for Mastercard, even as international banks like Standard Chartered, […]

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Date: 11/13/2007
ATLANTA and LAS VEGAS, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — BAI Retail
Delivery Conference Booth #2021 - CheckFree Corporation (Nasdaq: CKFR)
today announced its expanded OpenChannel strategy for mobile banking and
payments.
CheckFree’s expanded mobile strategy is designed to support multiple
technologies for delivering online financial services via mobile devices, including
microbrowser-based wireless application protocol (WAP), text messaging (known
as SMS for short […]

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SAN DIEGO – November 14, 2007 – Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading
developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and other advanced
wireless technologies, today announced it has agreed to acquire Atlanta-based Firethorn
Holdings, LLC, an industry-leading mobile banking enabler. The addition of Firethorn’s
expertise in the financial industry and key relationships with wireless operators, financial
institutions […]

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By Teresa von Fuchs
WirelessWeek - November 19, 2007

The FCC is threatening to shut down parts of Sprint Nextel’s network, if the company doesn’t address issues with its network interfering with public safety radios.
Many police and fire departments radios share the same swath of spectrum used by Nextel, which has caused problems for more than 2,200 […]

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By Tricia Duryee
Seattle Times technology reporter

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GOOGLE
In a short video, Google gives viewers a brief introduction to Android and shows what the user interface could look like.

GOOGLE
The presentation also shows how a person’s address can be mapped directly from the contacts database.

Android
Consortium: The Open Handset Alliance covers every aspect of […]

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nov 15th 2007
From The Economist print edition
Banking on mobile phones holds promise, provided regulators are willing to be flexible

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THE idea that mobile phones bring economic benefits is now widely accepted. In places with bad roads, few trains and parlous land lines, they substitute for travel, allow price data to be distributed more quickly and easily, […]

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Nov 16 2007 : Visa and MasterCard have announced separate mobile payments initiatives in Asia, Brazil and Canada. MasterCard has partnered with Japanese telco Softbank Mobile, credit card issuer Orient, French smart card vendor Gemalto, and Samsung and Hitachi to launch a Near Field Communications (NFC) m-payments system in Japan. The system, which will be […]

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If you thought your mobile phone was only good for making calls, taking pictures, listening to music, sending text messages, playing games….is there anything these things can’t do?
Certainly the ability to make payments using your phone is not among a shrinking list of applications beyond the capacity of cell phone technology.
This is video footage from […]

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