April 29, 2009
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Melany Gallant ·
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Shanghai consumers will soon be able to pay for their Big Macs and Grande lattes using their mobile phones at McDonald’s and Starbucks.
An article published by China Retail News reports that China Mobile Shanghai will make the technology available in the coming months.
The new SIM card that integrates the payment function will go into volume production at the end of April or early May. The user experience will be tested by an invited group of users before major roll out.
Article excerpt:
…users can complete the small-scale payments by placing the mobile phones near the card reader. ...
April 29, 2009
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Cam Stevenson ·
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Those of us who have been in the Mobility game for a long time have waited patiently for the Mobile Revolution, with a certainty that it would eventually arrive. And it appears (thanks mainly to Apple) that it's finally here, but perhaps not quite in the form that we expected.If I think back to the Newton days, we all imagined that eventually everyone would carry some PDA form factor device which would largely replace desktop systems both for creating as well as consuming information. If I think back a little harder, I remember how excruciatingly painful it was to, say, take notes using a s...
April 9, 2009
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Donna Remillard ·
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I stole that tag line, but I still love it. Mobile has been a buzz word for a while in the retail industry. Seems like retailers and customers alike are just chomping at the bit to get in on this game, but to date there just hasn’t been any compelling ROI for retailers to justify the leap and customer experience in this area has been lacking to say the least.
So if you haven’t already seen the Cactus Soundriff mobile solution that was launched at NRF, we tried to take a different approach and provide real value to it’s consumers. It’s not mobile browsing. It’s using the mobile to pr...