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Operator Innovation: Taxis, baby, taxis!

By Ewan on July 21, 2011 in Operators, Opinion

In the second in my series of Operator Innovation posts, I’m looking at Taxis. Why isn’t there a ‘taxi’ button in every Orange phone? Seriously — think about the possibilities? Buy an Orange contract and you’ll get prioritised access to over 450 fully approved and vetted taxi firms across the UK. That’s one firm in [...]

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From Barter to Barclaycard: The History of Payments

By Ewan on July 20, 2011 in News

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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Square’s new iPad ‘cash register’ — nice

By Ewan on May 24, 2011 in Devices

There’s a nice post on TechCrunch today about mobile payments genius, Square. They’re certainly beginning to rock the marketplace. The numbers in the first paragraph alone read very much like ‘job done’ in the context of Silicon Valley. I’m particularly excited by their iPad ‘cash register’. Just like many organisations have jumped to Google Apps, [...]

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Orange and Barclaycard introducing mobile payments (Updated)

By Ewan on March 9, 2009 in News

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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Coming to a Country Near You, Contactless Mobile Payment Trials

By Ewan on August 29, 2008 in Devices

Tim Sills is based out of Southern California and one of his bags is mobile payments. He’s got quite a bit of experience in the category so I asked him to write an overview of where we are in the marketplace from his perspective. Here we go. Tim, over to you: – – – – [...]

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