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Mobile payments for Telluride Film Festival took off

09/07/201209/06/2012 Julie Campbell

These smartphone transactions were powered by PayPal and ShopKeep POS. PayPal, eBay’s online money transfer service, and ShopKeep POS worked together to assist moviegoers to make their concessions purchases using mobile payments at the world famous Telluride Film Festival. This is the second year that ShopKeep POS has taken part in the film festival with its iPadPOS. This year, it used the mobile payments functionality of PayPal in order to help encourage consumers to adopt its services for greater use and presence in the movie industry. Founder and CEO of…

Apple to pursue NFC technology as mobile commerce gains momentum amongst consumers

01/31/2012 Stephen Vagus

Last week, Apple reported its fiscal first-quarter results of 2012, which showed that the quarterly revenue of the company had reached an all-time high of $46 billion. During the report, Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that this momentum would carry over to innovative projects the company had planned for the future. One of these projects is likely to involve mobile commerce as Apple looks to finally adopt NFC technology. The technology will likely be a feature with the next iPhone, which is expected to come out in late 2012. Apple…

Experts make their predictions regarding the future of the iPad

07/09/2011 Jennifer Goula

As Apple is never overly forthcoming as to what it has up its sleeves for future versions of its products, experts are already making their predictions as to what will be included in the upcoming devices. Though there is some consensus about some of the features that will be included, others features are more dependent on the availability of upcoming new technologies within the next year and a half before the decision can be made as to whether or not they will be a part of the next iPads. Primarily,…