07 March 2014 Researchers at South Korea’s KAIST university have unveiled the newest innovation in wearable devices: K-Glass, which is similar to Google Glass. K-Glass comes with a special chip that expands the pool of objects the device can properly recognize without relying on barcodes or...
07 March 2014 The technology that powers Cardinal Commerce’s latest expansion of its Universal Merchant Platform is now patent-protected in the United States. The Universal Merchant Platform allows for the secure processing of customer information in ecommerce transactions. “This new patent shows Cardinal’s Customers that,...
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Citing a lack of interest among both consumers and retailers, Swedbank is pulling the plug on its mobile-payments service, Bart. Despite a few high-profile domestic merchants that signed up for the service, Swedbank failed to generate enough interest to make the venture profitable, Finextra reported...
By Jeffrey Green (@epaymentsguy) Much has been said, especially in trade press, over the past year or so about Microsoft’s decision to discontinue updating its Windows XP operating system, effective April 8. In making that decision, users of ATMs and point-of-sale terminals and systems, many...
U.S. consumers who conducted holiday shopping at Amazon or L.L. Bean were the most likely to be satisfied with their experience this past holiday season, ForeSee’s newly published E-Retail Satisfaction Index indicates. Released on Jan. 7, the 61-page report drew from more than 67,000 customer...
PayPal APAC reportedly has launched mo.bi.pay, a mobile payments solution developed as a mobile plug-in solution for small and mid-size merchants using shopping carts on their platforms. Mo.bi.pay incorporates PayPal’s mobile practices so the customer can pay using his or her mobile device, The PayPers...
On Black Friday, with Walmart’s guarantees, customers who stood in line for the entirety of a designated offer got the deal, Neil Ashe, the megaretailer’s president and CEO of global eCommerce, told CNN Money in a Jan. 7 report. If the item wasn’t in stock,...
Alibaba, the Chinese eCommerce conglomerate, has banned the sale of Bitcoin on its Taobao Marketplace online platform. Bloomberg News reported that Bitcoin sales and other cryptocurrencies will be restricted beginning on Jan. 14. Mining hardware and software will also be barred from Taobao. An Alibaba...
