The past few days have been quite hectic, in fact I have hardly found time to visit some of the websites I usually visit to read up on for leisure. Among the long list, I have found little to no time to visit MacRumors. That being said, I took a few minutes out of my

Near Field Communication (NFC) technology in my opinion is the future of most technology. In respects to convenience, it ranks high; think about it, how great has it been when you need to pay for gas, that you can simply show your MasterCard PayPass at the terminal by the pump to pay. It takes what,

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an Overview of Visa’s payWave, and while I was looking into it I came across information concerning an mobile app called Visa Mobile for iCarte. At that time I was confused as to what this Visa Mobile application could do, seeing as there is no hardware in the

Near Field Communication (NFC) technology is what I would like to think to be the future. As it stands, we have seen NFC technology within virtually every credit card on the market, allowing people to pay quickly through a “tap & pay” system. With that said, we have already started seeing companies create digital wallets

Digital wallets will be the platform taking mobile payments to the next level, allowing consumers to make purchases with the use of their smartphones. We have seen mobile banking take a step forward with the introduction of various mobile banking apps, the most recent one being from the Bank of Montreal (BMO). With that said,

Ever since the iPhone first came out, I was intrigued with the idea of apps and how they can benefit the user. Over time, we begun to see financial institutions take advantage of these apps, and as such we began seeing the development and distribution of mobile banking apps. We have seen smartphones become a

Over the weekend I came across some interesting news on macrumors, which was that last week, Google unveiled its new Google Wallet. What is the Google Wallet? The Google Wallet is a push into near field communication (NFC), allowing users to make electronic payments with NFC compatible hardware through the Google Wallet mobile app for