Just when you thought you’d seen the last of Symbian, the operating system staggered back onto the scene today in the form of Symbian Belle along with three new phones Nokia 600, 700, 701 and Essence.

Working in telecommunications is a bit of a headache with acronyms and jargon being tossed around within nearly every conversation. It’s likely that a person new to the industry will not be able to understand such interactions. I’ve gone through a significant learning curve in my tenure at RCR and I thought I’d share some [...]

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.

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 [...]

On Monday news broke that Apple had a big surprise in store for punters this coming weekend to mark its 10 year retail anniversary. With talk of black curtains, hardware locked in back rooms ready for installation and employees pulling all nighters, many have been speculating whether Apple has a brand new device up its fruity sleeve. Others, however, claim it could be nothing more (or less) than a brand new NFC payment system.

With Near Field Communication (NFC) popping up in the news on an almost daily basis, it may finally be time to wonder when the great promise of every Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) might start impacting our daily lives. Significantly.

One in five smartphones will have NFC by 2014, according to a new Juniper research report.

Ahh PayPal, both a handy way to shift money around and a perpetual thorn in the side. Anyone who has used the service at any great length will no doubt have a story about the, shall we say, “quirks” that exist within the ubiquitous payment system.

The Internet has been abuzz with talks of near field communications and the future of the mobile wallet, and today Google Inc. announced a partnership that may take this buzz into the realm of reality. Sources close to the Wall Street Journal said Google announced a partnership with MasterCard Inc. and Citigroup Inc. to embed technology into [...]