Captcha systems, those psychedelic-font phrases designed to weed out bots from users, are a staple of website security. And, thanks to Stanford Researchers, they may be quickly becoming completely useless. More »
If purchasing (medical! honest!) marijuana legally is more your style than swapping bitcoins over the internet, you may need to change credit card companies: Credit.com discovered that despite it being legal in some US states, lenders aren’t so open-eyed, man. More »
If there’s ever been a reason to make sure your next phone has NFC built in, it’s the announcement today that Woolworths will be rolling out Visa PayWave across all its brands over the coming months. More »
We’ve been waiting forever and a half for NFC technology to take over our lives and rid ourselves of silly wallets and credit cards. Visa is creating a digital wallet service that’ll make all that real later this year. More »
So hang on – not only do punters have to shell out hundreds (or even thousands) to get to London, plus however much a ringside ticket will cost, and now they’re being guilt-tripped into buying a novelty handset with NFC? It’s certainly a “souvenir”, I suppose. More »
With Visa and ANZ announcing their four week trial of NFC mobile phone payments this week, it seems that the time is ripe for contactless payments through phones to take off. And according to Director of Innovation at Visa in Australia, Ben Pfisterer, the time for mobile payments may be even sooner than we expect. More »
If you’re a current U.S. customer (AU: You’re probably not), Visa’s new payment service will soon let you send funds digitally from your account to any other Visa account in the world. You’ll be able to send money to other eligible accounts by entering your recipient’s 16-digit Visa account, e-mail address or mobile phone number. Props for convenience, Visa. [Visa via Mashable]
All signs are pointing towards Near Field Communications, or NFC for the uninitiated, being the next big thing in mobile phones. The tech has received a new push this week, with Visa partnering with ANZ to launch a four week trial of NFC phone payments using a special iPhone case and application. More »
