When it comes to holiday shopping, everyone wants the best prices and deals on the gifts they buy. Many retailers are jumping on the mobile-deals bandwagon, hoping to encourage shoppers to pick their store over the competition, whether those shoppers are at work, fighting the lines at the mall, or hanging out at home. In
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You can do just about anything with your smartphone or mobile device. Whether you’re making restaurant reservations, looking at a map of the sky, transferring money from one bank account to another, or downloading movies, your phone likely has an app for that. When it comes to that dreaded time of the year known as
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Technology is certainly making life simpler for a lot of people who can barely keep up with their daily schedules. As a result of many technological successes in the banking industry, there are even more ways to add convenience to your life. One of the trends currently growing in popularity is the ability to deposit
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Consumers have more control of the shopping process than ever before – thanks to mobile shopping apps that allow shoppers to find the lowest prices, research more information about products, and buy items both online and off with the press of a button.
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Consumers, banks and the technology industry all have a vested interest in the success of mobile payments and one of the most anticipated mobile-payment platform finally arrives in consumers’ hands. Will Isis help push the adoption of NFC-based mobile payments or will it prove that NFC tech is the wrong direction for mobile payments?
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Tracking the adoption of mobile banking is like putting human behavior under a microscope…again. In a sense, it’s very much like the adoption of online banking (or online anything else), only on a much faster scale. To some, it’s still odd working with professionals who can’t remember what business was like before the Internet. Imagine
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The delay wasn’t a long one for the Isis mobile wallet, which was originally expected to launch by the end of this summer. Isis has announced that the official pilot launch is scheduled for Oct. 22 in Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah — a date that matches information in a leaked internal document.
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Smartphones continue to make life more convenient for users, and this week, the U.S. Department of Education announced the launch of a free application for Android devices that helps the blind or visually impaired identify U.S. paper currency. The IDEAL Currency Identifier is able to recognize bills dating back to 1993. After downloading and launching the app,
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Does your bank allow you to make mobile person-to-person (P2P) payments? If not, that may be about to change. Two companies at the forefront of financial technology have partnered to expand mobile P2P payments at hundreds of bank and credit unions — one of which could be yours.
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The delay of the Isis mobile wallet may not be a good sign for adoption of mobile payments, but the technology behind Isis is already out in the wild. Micros, a partner of the mobile-wallet venture, has started using the Isis SmartTap software in its point-of-service systems.
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