What is Apple® Passbook®?
Shannon Andrade | VIEW PROFILE
March 13, 2013
When Apple launched the iPhone® 5 in mid-2012, media and consumer anticipation was centered on near field communication (NFC). And, while the NFC announcement never came, Apple did announce Passbook as a key new feature available in iOS 6. Questions immediately arose. Is...
Inside Apple® Passbook®
Markiyan Malko | VIEW PROFILE
October 2, 2012
While many anticipated the launch of iOS6, available for the vast majority of the company’s iPhone®, iPad®, and iPod touch® models, to coincide with the announcement of NFC in the new iPhone, Apple turned heads with no NFC and no entry into mobile payments. The launch of Apple’s...
What is NFC?
Marc Castrechini | VIEW PROFILE
July 5, 2012
Industry analysts predict that 50 percent of smartphones will be NFC (near-field communication) enabled by 2015. In that same year, it’s anticipated that NFC-facilitated transactions will reach US$74 billion. Last year, 30 million NFC-enabled handsets, from leading manufacturers...
What is Genius?
Dan Dufault | VIEW PROFILE
June 12, 2012
A sea of change is on the horizon in the payments industry. Daily introductions of new payment solutions and value-added offerings are creating a constant, building cadence of entries that are flooding the industry. The deluge of new providers coupled with increasing demands...
What's next for payments?
Markiyan Malko | VIEW PROFILE
April 13, 2011
Recently I attended the Alternative Payment Systems Innovations Summit in hopes of finding what the next big thing in payments was and came away with more questions than answers. Heading into the summit, all I heard for the past couple months was about NFC and how it...
iPhone not supporting NFC as of now
Patrick Turiano | VIEW PROFILE
March 17, 2011
Major League Baseball’s spring training is already well into its Grapefruit and Cactus league schedules, and Opening Day, the official start of the season, is just two weeks out. Following the spring training schedule is Apple Inc., which hurled a drop-off-the-table curve ball...
Introducing MerchantWare Mobile for iphone
Brian Waldman
April 6, 2009
MerchantWARE Mobile: Businesses "On the Go" can increase sales with iPhoneTM and iPod® Touch Merchant Warehouse's free Point of Sale application runs credit card transactions on Apple mobile devices BOSTON, MA - March31, 2009 - Merchant Warehouse, a premier provider of...