Money is an easy thing to want to be in business with — I mean actual money. The carriers, banks, credit card companies and startups like Square Inc. are aiming for what many are predicting to be the next big channel for financial transactions. The transfer of money between or via mobile devices isn’t exactly [...]

Yesterday Google announced their long-rumoured NFC Android payment system, Google Wallet. The service was met with cautious optimism from the assembled press, and will begin trials in New York and San Francisco from today. PayPal however, aren’t very happy about the new product.

Google is holding a “partners event” today in the Big Apple, and its been all-but confirmed that the search giant will be launching its NFC payment system, the imaginatively-named Google Wallet , along with some retail partners.

Eponymous video streaming website YouTube is today celebrating its sixth birthday, while mobile advertising platform AdMob is marking one year as a Google property. In separate blog posts today both the YouTube and AdMob teams shared some impressive numbers showing how the two services continue to grow.

Google is accelerating its march to join the mobile payment business by partnering with Citibank, Mastercard, Spring and several retailers including Macy’s, American Eagle and Subway. The company is expected to announce “mobile wallet” services tomorrow on the Google Nexus S, allowing users to make payments on Mastercard PayPass terminals using near-field-communication (NFC) technology. Many [...]

As far as tarnished reputations go, Sony is currently in rare air. The initial hacking furore of mid-April, which resulting in the company’s PSN gaming network and Qriocity media service being shut down for three weeks, is far from over.

North Korea’s only 3G operator has reported the number of 3G mobile subscriptions in the country has surpassed half a million. The number represents a landmark for the company since it hit something of a peak in 2009, and was forced to rethink its strategy by adding new value-added services to raise the average revenue [...]

Knock the PlayBook all you want, but by all accounts it appears to be doing what Motorola Inc.’s Xoom did in its first two months of availability, according to RBC Capital Markets.

Strategically teaming up as OS partners may not be enough for Microsoft when it comes to Nokia, according to Nokia watcher Eldar Murtazin, claiming the Finnish firm is in talks to sell off its entire handset division to the software giant.

Is there a more perplexing wireless operator in the domestic market than Clearwire? Sure, there are “carriers” that have some strange business models or build out plans (cough, cough, LightSquared, cough) that have yet to actually do anything, but with Clearwire you have a functional operator that is serving customers and yet seems to be constantly teetering on the brink.