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From Barter to Barclaycard: The History of Payments

Here’s a wee sponsored video from Barclaycard taking a look at the history of how people pay for things. Barclaycard used award-winning director, Dominic Bridgstock, to bring the film to life in the style of Horrible Histories – a Brit comedy classic that Dominic has previously directed. Here’s the vid:

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First look at Orange’s Samsung Tocco Quick Tap

First look at Orange’s Samsung Tocco Quick Tap

Thanks to Orange I managed to get hold of the all new Samsung Tocco handset with Quick Tap contactless payments support. I filmed a quick video overview with Socialcam to show you what it’s all about. I did a semi-unboxing (I’d already switched on the phone) and then I set about messing around with the [...]

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Quick Tap contactless payments from Orange & Barclaycard: Live today!

Well then — it’s good news this morning for Orange and Barclaycard. They’ve left other mobile operators waving in the dust with the launch of their all new ‘Quick Tap‘ contactless payments service. You know the drill, right? We’ve been hearing about this sort of use case for quite a while. If you’d like to [...]

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Barclaycard’s Rollercoaster Extreme iPhone game coming soon

Barclaycard’s Rollercoaster Extreme iPhone game coming soon

Barclaycard have done it again! Do you remember the Barclaycard Waterslide Extreme game (iTunes link)? It easily became one of the most successful branded free apps hitting over 12 million downloads (to date) and earning the coveted #1 spot in 57 countries. Next up from Barclaycard is Rollercoaster Extreme. The concept being to ‘ride’ the [...]

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Orange and Barclaycard introducing mobile payments (Updated)

Orange and Barclaycard introducing mobile payments (Updated)

It’s just a small entry on page 5 of today’s London Telegraph Business section. Indeed it’s only 6 paragraphs of text – maybe 150 words. But it’s explosive news for the UK mobile payments sector. For years as both consumers and mobile industry cheerleaders, we’ve been sat waiting for something like this to happen — [...]

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