Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) will release an Android version of its Kaching mobile payments service in the next six weeks, according to ZDNet Australia... More
CBA blames Google for NFC payments delay
Google CEO hints at NFC future for Motorola
Google CEO Larry Page has taken to the search giant’s blog to announce the completion of its acquisition of Motorola Mobility — and obliquely mentioned NFC’s key role in Google’s plans for the future... More
Virgin Mobile adds gWallet phone
The LG Optimus Elite is now available to pre-order from Virgin Mobile USA for US$149.99... More
EC extends Oscar deadline
The European Commission has prolonged the deadline for a decision on whether to give the go ahead to the UK carrier-led ‘Project Oscar’ NFC joint venture, Bloomberg reports... More
Google gets NFC P2P patent
Google has been granted a patent for transferring application state information from one device to another via NFC, a system which is similar to the company’s Android Beam service... More
Shift4 adds gWallet support
Hospitality payments processing specialist Shift4 has added support for payments made via NFC phones equipped with Google Wallet... More
KegDroid pours beer with NFC
Google staffer Paul Carff has produced a video showing an NFC-enabled beer tap that uses NFC badges, an NFC reader/writer, a Motorola Xoom tablet and an Arduino microcontroller to automatically dispense a brew to badge holders — provided their badge contains the ID information necessary to prove that they are, for instance, old enough to drink alcohol... More
Google Wallet: We’re in it for the long haul, says search giant
“It’s still very early days for mobile payments and we know [it] will take time to build a mobile commerce ecosystem, but we’re very committed to this goal and are encouraged by the progress we’ve made to date,” says the search giant, as it makes unlocked Galaxy Nexus NFC phones available for US$399. More
Motorola eyes NFC finger locks
Motorola is to use fingerprint biometrics in future NFC handsets to eliminate PIN locks on mobile wallets... More
Google buys payments firm
Google has acquired platform-as-a-service (PaaS) electronic payments technology provider TxVia... More
Wallet engineer heads to Square
Rob von Behren, a co-founder of Google Wallet, has left the search giant to join Square as a “hyperspatial payments pioneer”... More
London NFC hackathon winners get funding
Two of the twenty teams which took part in last weekend’s Isobar Create London NFC app development event have received kick-starter funding they will be able to use to turn their apps into commercial products. More
Wallet users get $5 credit
Google is topping up Google Wallet prepaid card accounts with an extra US$5 credit, The Verge reports... More
Google to share NFC revenues?
Google is considering sharing revenue with carriers to encourage them to embrace its Google Wallet NFC app, according to Bloomberg... More
Pinkberry adds gWallet support
International yoghurt retailer Pinkberry has added support for Google Wallet payments and offers at 69 of its US outlets... More
gWallet pioneers in new venture
Google Wallet founding engineer Jonathan Wall and product lead Marc Freed-Finnegan have left the search giant to form their own company, Techcrunch reports... More
Google Wallet heading to Apple iOS devices?
Mobile security specialist Intrepidus Group says it has uncovered mention of iOS in the source code for Google Wallet, suggesting that the search giant could have already developed a version of its mobile wallet that could run on NFC-enabled Apple products. More
Sony announces Xperia Sola with NFC
The latest addition to Sony’s growing range of Android NFC phones features new ‘floating touch’ technology that allows users to interact with the device without needing to physically touch the screen. More
Alix: US consumers want banks to provide digital wallets
74% of US consumers interested in having a digital wallet would choose their primary bank as their preferred provider, an AlixPartners survey has found, compared with 23% who say they would pick PayPal and 15% who chose Google as their preferred provider... More
Google warns on rooted phones
Some Google Wallet users running the app on rooted NFC phones are now seeing a message pointing out that their phone is an unsuppported device... More