Google Wallet lets smartphones with NFC (near-field communication) chips transmit data to special NFC readers for a financial transaction. The Google Prepaid Card is a virtual card that you can fund with any of your existing credit cards — no Citi MasterCard required. After you activate the Google Prepaid Card in Google Wallet, you’ll get [...]
After Google unveiled its Google Wallet in New York yesterday, PayPal filed a lawsuit in a California court alleging intellectual theft and betrayal, reports the AP. The central figure in the 28-page complaint is Osama Bedier, now Google’s vice president of payments after spending nine years at PayPal. He was part of the team that [...]
There’s a secret Patriot Act, according to Senator Ron Wyden. In a Wired article, Wyden (D-Oregon), says that the U.S. government applies a far broader legal interpretation to the Patriot Act — an interpretation that the government has conveniently classified. U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Mark Udall (D-Co.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Tom Udall (D-NM) [...]
Today Google gave a demo of Google Wallet, an app that will make your phone your wallet, with the help of Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint. Google Wallet will let you tap, pay and save using your phone and near field communication (NFC). It is currently being field tested and will be released soon, [...]
One reason why Sprint is fighting the AT&T/T-Mobile merger is that they don’t have a wireline business. Both AT&T and Verizon do. They price their fiber access to cell towers as high as possible, to reduce competition and avoid lawsuits. That had the effect of forcing Sprint and Clearwire to utilize microwave backhaul, using Dragonwave [...]
At TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, this week, Google’s Marissa Mayer sat down with Michael Arrington and discussed Google Maps for mobile. As Google’s head of Geo (which includes both Maps and Local), Mayer said Google Maps for mobile has now surpassed 200 million installs, with mobile over 40 percent of all Maps usage. [...]
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