by Simon Hill, 6 months ago

NFC stands for Near Field Communication and it allows short-range wireless communications. There are a lot of potential applications for NFC which we’ll delve into in a minute, but they all revolve around close proximity…

by Bams Sadewo, 6 months ago

The Isis mobile payment system, Google Wallet’s competitor, was finally launched on October 22 after numerous delays. We’re not surprised if you haven’t heard much about its impact, since the new system is currently only…

by Robert Nelson, 7 months ago

We had known that the Isis Mobile Wallet was going to be launching today. But at the same time, it is nice to see this launch without any further delays. That of course is the…

by Bams Sadewo, 7 months ago

The marketing head of Isis, Jaymee Johnson, has sent out a statement to tech publications across the country that its mobile payment service will indeed be officially rolled out on October 22. Come Monday next…

by Bams Sadewo, 7 months ago

The new mobile payment system backed by three carriers (AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile), dubbed as Isis Mobile Wallet, has been pushed back from its original September launch. A leaked internal memo, as attained by Tmonews…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 7 months ago

Phones have been shipping with NFC (near field communication) support for several years now, but the one use case that we’ve all been waiting for, paying for things via a simple tap, has yet to…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 8 months ago

After much fanfare surrounding the new mobile payment system being put forward by carriers, ISIS is encountering delays anew. A venture launched by AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, the service aims to reduce consumer dependency on…

by Chris Smith, 8 months ago

Earlier today we heard that T-Mobile has made available an Ice Cream Sandwich build for its Galaxy S2 version that enables NFC/ISIS features on the handset and at the time we wondered when will ISIS…

by Chris Smith, 8 months ago

While we keep talking about Google Wallet mobile payment features, that are available only on NFC-ready devices, the fact remains that Google is not the only company out there interested in getting into the mobile…

by Chris Smith, 9 months ago

Mobile payments are going to become more and more popular in the foreseeable future, and we’ll probably rely more and more on smart mobile devices to pay for various things and services when out and about. But…

by Chris Smith, 11 months ago

In our fourth edition of the “How it Works” series, we’re going to talk about NFC, or near field communication, a technology that’s being adopted by more and more smartphone and tablet makers and mobile…

by Mike Andrici, 1 year ago

Cash? Forget it. Credit cards? How dated. More than two thirds of technology insiders believe that paying with smartphones will overtake both credit card payments and cash payments by the year 2020. Incredible as it…