If driving to a store and waving your phone by a terminal puts too much sweat on your brow, American Express has launched a new way to part with your money in exchange for physical goods that's even more effortless.
Your mobile phone, acting as a store of your credit card data, sends it wirelessly to a nearby receiver, which could be another phone, a dedicated terminal, or a payments module embedded in, say, a vending machine.
They can't be easily set up on multiple machines, and you certainly wouldn't be able to access your phone account on a public terminal.
Google Wallet uses near field communication (NFC) to make secure payments fast and convenient by simply tapping the phone on any PayPass-enabled terminal at checkout.
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Restrict your communications to when you have docked in port and utilize a local SIM card in your phone or in a portable hotspot terminal.
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Visa said Friday it created a program that will allow mobile-phone manufacturers, point-of-sale terminal makers and other companies to more quickly certify their products under the card company's security standards.
Place the latter on the kiosk and the phone's media files are displayed on the terminal screen.
It will only be offered to people living in New York and San Francisco at first -- though the phone can be used as payment anywhere there's a MasterCard terminal.
Assange, in the terminal, carried a threadbare blue backpack that contained hard drives, phone cards, and multiple cell phones.
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