Posts Tagged ‘ NFC ’

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 7-18-11

Concur continues its investment binge with $5M for Yapta and integrates the air and hotel price tracking tool into TripIt. Isis, the carrier-led near field communication (NFC) mobile payment platform has signed up Visa, MasterCard and American Express along with original partner Discover, who will join the carrier initiative when it launches next year. Interesting development, [ READ MORE ]

Will Google Wallet Revolutionize Payments in Travel?

That was the title of my latest post in Tnooz.   For all the buzz around NFC and Google Wallet, I don’t think that it’s a real game changer in the near-term.  Why you may ask? Google Wallet isn’t the only game in town. PayPal, Apple, Square (backed by Visa) and others are in the game and [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 5-16-11

OK, I thought this post went up a few days ago, but it was saved as a draft. Sorry for the delay: Linkedin had an amazing IPO, going out at $45 and seeing the stock price more than double in the first day of trading. That’s a market valuation of over $9 billion…with a “B”. Is Android [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 4-11-11

There are times I wonder whether this post is still of value to people, but then I ran into Amadeus’ Debbie Iannaci at the ACTE conference last week and she says she reads it, so for now it stays. But I’d love to hear from others too. ZipCar had a very successful IPO, as the stock [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 11-15-10

Well last week was my first PhoCusWright Conference and it was awesome. So many conversations, the opportunity to meet people “in person” for a change. Just terrific. And a lot happened during the conference that was newsworthy both at the conference and elsewhere.  If you didn’t attend PCW10, try to make it next year. But [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 8-16-10

The week was pretty much dominated by the launch of Facebook Places, but a few other things happened too…including a $7B acquisition by Intel that I only partially get as a lot of dollars must have gone for parts of Intuit’s business that’s far afield from Intel’s chip business. But who am I to judge. [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye — Week of 4-19-10

Here’s your weekly reading list: T2Impact’s Timothy O’Neill-Dunne tries to judge who’s right in the airline merchandising row.  Spoiler Alert: it ain’t the BTC. American Airlines is trying to make GDSs, distribution channels to embrace XML in order to access ancillary services, which otherwise can’t be done prior to arrival at the airport.  However, American insists there [ READ MORE ]

Near Field Communication and Travel

Well I was in the middle of working on a post on the topic in today’s title and of course as I was nearing completion, the news about Apple’s iTravel app and associated patents. So I’ve been reading through some of the patent information on the app and have a lot of re-write/re-framing to [ READ MORE ]

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