M-Payments Gen 4
Mobile payments got a huge kick this week with the introduction of a wide band transistor optimized for DC-2.7 GHz operation and built using proprietary 4th generation GaN on Silicon (GaN on Si) process.
Stingray III POS
Panasonic unveiled the new modular “Stingray III” POS workstation. An enterprise-grade POS device compatible with a variety of Microsoft Windows operating systems, it features an all-in-one flexible, modular design for the retail, quick service restaurant (QSR) and hospitality industries. Flexibility and Modularity: The Stingray III’s versatile design features interchangeable touchscreens and allows easy customization to meet individual retailer requirements with unlimited mounting options. The increased modularity of the Stingray III also makes servicing and replacing parts a simpler process, allowing the workstation to be easily maintained, reducing total cost of ownership and increasing ROI.
Amazon’s Phone Payments
Amazon today unveiled Fire, the first smartphone designed by Amazon. Fire is the only smartphone with Dynamic Perspective and Firefly, two new breakthrough technologies that allow you to see and interact with the world through a whole new lens. Dynamic Perspective uses a new sensor system to respond to the way you hold, view, and move Fire, enabling experiences not possible on other smartphones. Firefly quickly recognizes things in the real world”web and email addresses, phone numbers, QR and bar codes, movies, music, and millions of products, and lets you take action in seconds”all with the simple press of the Firefly button.
Amazon’s Phone Payments
Amazon today unveiled Fire, the first smartphone designed by Amazon. Fire is the only smartphone with Dynamic Perspective and Firefly, two new breakthrough technologies that allow you to see and interact with the world through a whole new lens. Dynamic Perspective uses a new sensor system to respond to the way you hold, view, and move Fire, enabling experiences not possible on other smartphones. Firefly quickly recognizes things in the real world”web and email addresses, phone numbers, QR and bar codes, movies, music, and millions of products, and lets you take action in seconds”all with the simple press of the Firefly button.
Amazon Coins-Spend and Earn On Android Devices
Amazon this morning announced that customers in the US, UK and Germany can now buy, spend and earn Amazon Coins on their Android phones and tablets. Previously available for use exclusively on Kindle Fire tablets, Amazon Coins can now be used to buy the latest apps, like Ridiculous Fishing, purchase extra lives within Candy Crush, or unlock Red’s amazing Super Roaster in Angry Birds GO directly from their Android device. Customers simply need to download the latest version of the Amazon Appstore and their existing Coins balances automatically appear. Existing Android customers can upgrade to the latest version of the Amazon Appstore on their mobile device by visiting www.amazon.com/updateappstore and new customers can download the Amazon Appstore on their mobile device by visiting www.amazon.com/getappstore.
ZTE Makes Available Smartphones and Data Cards
ZTE Corporation network solutions and mobile devices launched a new range of smartphones and data cards in India to provide consumers in the country with a choice of high-performance devices to enhance their mobile experience. ZTE is offering six new smartphones, including the Quad-Core ZTE Grand X, featuring a brilliant 5-inch high-definition screen, in India, partnering with Calyx Telecommunications to make the devices widely available to consumers across the country. In addition, ZTE is introducing four new data cards together with partner Digilife to meet the needs of India consumers for high-speed data access. ZTE, one of the world’s Top 5 mobile handset and smartphone manufacturers, provides consumers around the world a wide choice of innovative and feature-rich devices, ranging from entry level to high-end smartphones, delighting users with thoughtful and intuitive design features that improve their mobile experience.
ZTE Launches Smartphone, Data Cards in New Market
ZTE Corporation telecommunications equipment, network solutions and mobile devices, launched a new range of smartphones and data cards in India to provide consumers in the country with a choice of high-performance devices to enhance their mobile experience. ZTE is offering six new smartphones, including the Quad-Core ZTE Grand X, featuring a brilliant 5-inch high-definition screen, in India, partnering with Calyx Telecommunications to make the devices widely available to consumers across the country. In addition, ZTE is introducing four new data cards together with partner Digilife to meet the needs of India consumers for high-speed data access. ZTE, one of the world’s Top 5 mobile handset and smartphone manufacturers, provides consumers around the world a wide choice of innovative and feature-rich devices, ranging from entry level to high-end smartphones, delighting users with thoughtful and intuitive design features that improve their mobile experience.
Compass Plus Posts HP Benchmark
Compass Plus electronic payment solutions and retail banking systems has completed scalability and performance tests on HP servers for their “TranzAxis” Open Development Banking Platform. A specialist, integrated platform created for the development and support of cards and payments, transaction switching, retail banking and other systems and applications in the domain linked to the automation of retail banking activities, “TranzAxis” was tested through a simulated issuing and acquiring setup that required it to drive 20,000 terminals (10,000 ATMs and 10,000 POS devices). TranzAxis also acted as an issuing system that included 10 million accounts with overdrafts and 10 million cards linked to them. The platform reached a sustained peak of 1066 transactions per second (TPS) during testing and remained stable at that high capacity.
EU endorses frequencies for high-speed m-internet
Mobile internet is set to hit dizzying speeds after MEPs approved a proposal to free up radio frequencies for their use. Under the plan member states will be required to open up more frequencies for high-speed mobile internet by 2013 to satisfy growing demand for wireless data. Swedish Christian Democrat Gunnar Hökmark, who was responsible…
Android NFC Integrates AuthenTec Fingerprint Matching/Navigation
AuthenTec mobile and network security announced its “AES850” smart fingerprint sensor is now integrated on a new Fujitsu smartphone, the REGZA Phone T-01D Android model now available from NTT DOCOMO. AuthenTec’s “AES850” fingerprint matching and navigation device for mobile phones enhances the features and functionality of the waterproof REGZA Phone T-01D by providing security that locks and unlocks the phone, locks/unlocks user-chosen applications and enhances the speed and security of NFC mobile payments. The “AES850” helps improve the speed and security of Osaifu-Keitai NFC mobile wallet transactions via fast and highly secure fingerprint authentication on the REGZA Phone T-01D.
Clear2Pay Sees Open Card System Records
Clear2Pay international technology provider of next generation payment solutions for financial institutions announces benchmarking results for its Open Card System (OCS) application. In a joint programme, undertaken in co-operation with Intel, OCS recorded throughput of 11,109 business transactions per second with an average response time of 63ms. The Open Card System is a latest-generation system for banks and processors, designed to meet the needs of card issuers and acquirers globally and to position financial institutions for the next wave of mobile payment schemes.
NetLogic Microsystems Begins Shipments Multi-Core Processor
NetLogic Microsystems high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions for next-generation Internet networks has started revenue shipments for its recently introduced XLP multi-core processors into the communications control plane market, which is estimated at approximately $1.5 billion. The control plane processing application represents a new market for NetLogic Microsystems’ XLP family of multi-core processors as previous generations of XLR(R) and XLS(R) families of processors were primarily targeted at the data plane processing market. The XLP multi-core processor is specifically designed with a best-in-class communications processor architecture supporting quad-issue, superscalar out-of-order execution, floating point processing, sophisticated branch handling and large on-chip caching. With this, 80% of NetLogic Microsystems’ leading customers are already actively designing with the XLP multi-core processors.