{"id":11943,"date":"2011-09-27T16:13:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T21:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=11943"},"modified":"2024-01-01T10:07:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T16:07:28","slug":"isis-to-offer-competing-service-to-google-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/09\/isis-to-offer-competing-service-to-google-wallet\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS to offer competing service to Google Wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Not too long ago, Eric told you how Google Wallet<\/a> was going to change the way we buy things away from our computers. And though I’m no techno-hipster, it was interesting at least. For all the Jetsons-like promises of the future Google Wallet seemed to make, its main hindrance was the lack of NFC compatible phones. Well, it seems that a new joint venture has been formed to address that very issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter Isis, a joint venture consisting of wireless carriers AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless created to standardize the NFC payment system. By making a universal standard from which manufacturers can work off of, Isis has made great strides to making a credit card-less society a reality. Today’s announcement however, is not to simply announce what they plan on doing; Isis also dropped the news that they’ve confirmed NFC-enabled handsets from RIM, Motorola Mobility, HTC, LG, Sony Ericsson, and Samsung Mobile as well as working with DeviceFidelity to provide the contactless payment options for consumers who don’t <\/strong>buy NFC-enabled devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The enthusiasm shown by manufacturers is one that shouldn’t be easily dismissed either. Though most of the companies named were short on details on their future plans of deploying NFC-enabled phones (other than ‘yeah, we’ll make them’), it seems that NFC devices may be a part of RIM’s future.  As Andrew Brocking, vice president of Blackberry Software, put it, \u201cThe new line-up of BlackBerry\u00ae 7 smartphones include various models that are NFC-enabled and demonstrates RIM\u2019s commitment to enabling NFC-based experiences on BlackBerry.\u201d If nothing else there’s serious commitment on their part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This level of competition and availability is exactly the kind of bite that was missing from Google Wallet. After all, it’s one thing to offer a service that’s only available on one phone and another to create a new payment delivery system. It should be stressed however, that this may not be such a bad thing for the big G; after all their recently acquired Motorola Mobility is one of the listed manufacturers, they may very well contribute to the standardization of NFC payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: Isis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forget bulky wallets and plastic cards! Google Wallet may have started the revolution, but Isis \u2013 a joint venture between major wireless carriers \u2013 is poised to make cash transactions a thing of the past. 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