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Visa unveils plans for a mobile wallet to be released far before Google’s offering

07/06/201107/06/2011 Stephen Vagus

Visa is entering the mobile commerce arena with its recently unveiled plans to develop a mobile wallet to compete with Google’s offering. Visa, the global payments technology powerhouse, is joining the growing number of tech and financial companies pushing the world toward a cashless society. Visa’s payment platform will make use of NFC technology, as is the norm for such endeavors, but the company seems to have been developing their mobile wallet for some time. Despite only recently revealing their plans to release such a product, Visa has announced…

Mobile Device Users Can be Tracked Using Google Web Mapping

06/20/2011 Sam Lambert

Google customers whose mobile device Wi-Fi is on may have their previous whereabouts available for anyone to track on the Web. Among Google’s practices is the publication of the probable location of millions of mobile devices that have active Wi-Fi connection. This is only the latest of a number of discoveries being made this year regarding the tracking and locating of mobile devices, and the associated privacy issues. One example of this occurrence is with Android phones which have enabled location services. They regularly send location data stamped with the…

Google Wallet claims to be safer than traditional payment methods

06/03/2011 Jesse Collins

Digital wallets are becoming more popular amongst the tech-savvy. The idea is to store all of your financial data on your smart phone or other mobile device. Using NFC, you can make payments with a wave of your device. The concept seems to have an inherent danger, as anyone could steal the phone like they would steal a credit card. However, several financial and mobile security experts say that digital wallets are actually safer than physical ones. This may be good news for Google as the company begins to release…

The wild, wild west of cyber space

06/01/2011 Jennifer Goula

Android fans, prepare to take a side; the inevitable war is brewing. If the rumor mill and speculators have the figures right, we should see this competition start in time for the holiday season. Google may be going toe to toe with Amazon. Amazon may be coming out with an Android family of devices. Tech Crunch received a tip and confirmation late last year that Amazon would be launching their own (Android) app store. They also received a tip that Amazon would be working on their own Android-based tablet. Just…

Google reaches out to business owners

05/07/2011 John Montgallo

Google makes a bold move to interact with local small and medium businesses; in person. Not through the help forum or a mailed ad campaign, but actually in person, shake hands, let’s sit and talk. This shows that Google is getting it. People need to put a face with a service; we still need a certain level of human interaction. Anyone who uses Google (or used to use Google) knows how hard it is to get help from a live person. Google’s head of local consumer marketing has…