Tag: ISIS

According to the latest research by Juniper, ‘global payments via mobile devices will reach $507 billion this year, a rise of 40 percent.’ The initial reaction at the BillingViews Detective Agency was to welcome the news and to take it at face value. But then one of our top detectives began to get an itchy nose […]

Once again, I am unimpressed. Another September Apple event, another iPhone release, and another missed opportunity to become a major player in the mobile payment space. Apple is taking steps towards getting into the payments game, but it is not nearly enough. Tim Cook and his team should be jumping in to the deep end […]

This summer proved to be a busy time for ISIS, the American based mobile wallet driven by Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. News out of ISIS aims to further expand the reach and power of their mobile wallet offering but will it be enough to get both merchants and consumers on board? The Good News… In […]

ISIS, the expensive joint venture between AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile is about to go national. This follows an agonizingly long trial in Salt Lake City and Austin (which this writer wrote about nearly two years ago when with Connected Planet – sadly no longer with us). So, what innovation and ground breaking advances can America […]
by which I mean this …. As you might remember, I am somewhat skeptical about ISIS, the joint venture between the Big Boys of communications and the Big Boys of payments processing. A recent article in Mobile Commerce Daily reported that customers in Salt Lake City were following merchants after they had left the store and […]
In the happy holiday turmoil you might have missed PayPal President, David Marcus’ blog in which he predicts that the “NFC payments debate will slowly die in 2013.” “Is tapping a phone on a terminal any easier than swiping a credit card?” he asks. You might think that we would agree wholeheartedly. NFC has been […]
At last, the bank-backed ISIS mobile payment system will debut next week via trials in Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City Utah. Oft quoted skeptics argue that mobile payments won’t succeed in the US because plastic credit cards are already easy for consumers to use. This is true. What the skeptics are missing, however, is […]
ISIS, the NFC mobile wallet that is about to tested in Salt Lake City and a couple of other cities in the US is still – about to be tested. According to Mobile Payments Today, there are several reasons for the lack of anything happening. Reading between the lines, it comes down to the difference […]
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