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Touchatag BusinessTwo Belgian outfits specialising in mobile and micro payment systems – Clear2Pay and PingPing – have linked up with the telecoms giant Alcatel-Lucent to enable mobile operators to launch person-to-person payment, remote ticketing and mobile commerce services.
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New technology will facilitate payments via mobile phones
La convergence entre mobile banking et mobile payment.
Systèmes de Paiement: "Avec Alcatel-Lucent, Clear2Pay vise la convergence entre mobile banking et mobile payment."
Turkish national broadcaster TRT-1 covered the Alcatel-Lucent Mobile Wallet Service demo in the main news session...
Turkish national broadcaster TRT-1 covered the Alcatel-Lucent Mobile Wallet Service demo in the main news session...
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Clear2Pay recently signed a partnership with Alcatel-Lucent
Clear2Pay recently signed a partnership with Alcatel-Lucent to create a mobile micro payment framework that combines the respective companies' long time payment knowledge with mobile network experience.
L'autobus? A Nizza si paga con il cellulare
Corrier Economia
Vogliame dare flessibilita ai pagamenti mobili, crediamo che ci sara un'adozione rapida nei prossimi anni.
Alcatel-Lucent unifies the mobile wallet around carriers
A Q&A with Anthony Belpaire, general manager of Alcatel-Lucent's mobile money venture, touchatag.
The mobile commerce market is heating up quickly, with many wireless operators looking at how to put themselves at the heart of the action. The market is fragmented today, but equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent has a solution that it says could both unify mobile commerce services and put...
Hindustan Times - Wallet turns mobile
What's cool: It delivers consumer applications such as person-to-person payment, remote ticketing, proximity payment and m-commerce.
Mobile-Financial: Alcatel-Lucent Pushes Mobile Wallets
Analysts say the new service, thought to be the first in this category to be launched by a telecom equipment maker, could be a unifying factor in what today is a highly fragmented mobile payments market.
PaymentsViews: Mobile Payment Themes from CTIA
Alcatel-Lucent announced their Mobile Wallet Service targeting the mobile networks operators and providing them control of the both the payment applications and business rules in the wallet. The Alcatel-Lucent offering is a hosted service with a variety of potential payment applications including person-to-person, remote ticketing, loyalty or coupons, mobile ecommerce and proximity payment at...
Alcatel-Lucent releases Mobile Wallet Service
Alcatel-Lucent’s MWS is the outcome of a previously announced partnership with Clear2Pay for the development of a mobile payment framework. The application features handset applications, a stored value account, gateways to banks and payment networks, links to an operator’s billing system as well as a portfolio of access devices for proximity payment.
Alcatel-Lucent introduces turnkey pay-as-you-go mobile wallet platform for operators
A key advantage of the Mobile Wallet Service is that operators do not need to make a major upfront investment, Anthony Belpaire, Touchatag's general manager, told NFC World. Instead, service fees are paid to Alcatel-Lucent based on the number of active mobile wallet users the operator has recruited and on the volume of transactions made.
Alcatel-Lucent Pushes Mobile Wallets
Analysts say the new service, thought to be the first in this category to be launched by a telecom equipment maker, could be a unifying factor in what today is a highly fragmented mobile payments market.
"Alcatel-Lucent's offering could be the glue that the industry has been missing," says Andy Hicks, a senior research analyst in the Prague office of tech consultancy IDC. The service...
New platform lets mobile operators offer payments, ticketing, loyalty services via stickers or NFC phones
A new collaboration between Touchatag, the near field communication tag applications specialist owned by Alcatel-Lucent, and payments systems specialist Clear2Pay enables mobile operators to launch mobile wallet services based on contactless stickers. The new platform includes payment, ticketing and marketing services and is compatible with NFC phones as well as stickers.
All that’s missing for NFC are the phones
Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) venture touchatag announced a collaboration with payment provider Clear2Pay to create a mobile payment framework for mobile operators
Start-up Alcatel-Lucent Bell in goeden doen
Touchatag, de vorig jaar gelanceerde start-up van Alcatel-Lucent Bell voor contactloze toepassingen, is in goeden doen. ‘We zijn meer dan op schema’, zegt Anthony Belpaire, die aan het hoofd staat van de starter.
Betalen door telefoonzwaaien
Het Belgische Clear2pay en Touchatag, een onderdeel van Alcatel-Lucent, gaan samenwerken. Ze maken een systeem voor betaling door met een gsm te wuiven.
Touchatag in zee met Clear2Pay
Touchatag (Alcatel-Lucent) gaat samen met Clear2Pay een raamwerk rond mobiele betalingen opzetten.
Betalen door met je mobieltje te zwaaien
Touchatag is een nieuw intern bedrijf waarin netwerkspecialist Alcatel-Lucent zijn contactloze technologie ontwikkelt. De samenwerking met Clear2pay moet uitmonden in een betalingssysteem voor mobiele operatoren.
Touchatag werkt aan nieuw mobiel betalingssysteem
Met het systeem, dat zich richt op mobiele operators, zouden gebruikers met hun gsm diensten of producten kunnen betalen of geld naar elkaar overmaken. Naast het betalen moeten ook bijvoorbeeld virtuele klantenkaarten, kortingsbonnen en abonnementsvormen op de mobiel beschikbaar komen.
Touchatag, Clear2Pay develop m-payment framework
Alcatel-Lucent venture Touchatag has struck a deal with payment services provider Clear2Pay to create a mobile payment framework for mobile operators. Clear2Pay and Touchatag have created a payment and stored value account (SVA) service that enable merchants to accept POS transactions, collect and redeem loyalty points, issue gift cards, deliver electronic store receipts, set up interactive...
Review: Touchatag RFID System
You always remember your first time, right? That heady rush, the embarrassment that turns into passion, that sense that this, this moment right now, is what you’re living for. You could stay this way forever or die today - it didn’t matter. I think Bryan Adams said it best when he wrote:
I got my first real RFID sensing smartcard reader
Bought it on the Internet
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Consumer Electronics 2.0: MIT's Henry Holtzman on The Internet of Things
Touchatag is another company to have impressed Holtzman, Chief Knowledge Officer of the MIT Media Lab. As we wrote in February, Touchatag allows you to program your own RFID tags so that they can do anything you want. Holtzman said that he's been very impressed by the decisions the company has made, for example using adhesives. He also likes their 'web 2.0 savvy' - they host everything, but...
Alcatel-Lucent outlines carriers’ role in contactless future
Wireless operators have realized by now the ways in which they could benefit from the increased emphasis being placed on wireless applications and services.
Touchatag's aim: RFID apps development made easier
Touchatag is the next phase in the continuing evolution of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. RFID has been used in a variety of applications such as warehouse inventory control. Motorists who have an EZ-Pass device on their car’s windshield for electronic toll payment are using RFID technology.
Track things in your office with RFID
Touchatag sells RFID sticker tags and readers at their online store. To use touchatag, just paste the RFID stickers onto your office items and connect the RFID reader to your PC via USB.
AlcaLu Gets Interesting
And then there's a partnership with PingPing. Just that name alone makes it worth checking out (it's part of the Belgacom SA (Euronext: BELG) empire).
Alcatel-Lucent démocratise l’utilisation des puces RFID auprès du grand public.
Alcatel-Lucent démocratise l’utilisation des puces RFID auprès du grand public. Son nouveau système Touchatag permet d’intégrer l’utilisation de la RFID dans la vie de tous les jours.
Touchatag Adds Business Apps
The renamed system has created applications allowing consumers and business people to quickly access information on their NFC-enabled phones.
Tikitag renamed Touchatag, adds QR codes to repertoire
Tikitag renamed Touchatag, adds QR codes to repertoire
Touchatag from Alcatel Lucent stood out.
Touchatag from Alcatel Lucent stood out. It was an RFID and 2D barcode service for the globe with its only reader shipping for EUR 30 and the chance to purchase instant RFID tags...