Square's gone after the clunky old cash register. Now Google's trying to reinvent how we pay for even more things. It's just revealed Wallet, the first big-name, large scale rollout of NFC wireless wave-and-pay next generation credit cards.READ»
Google is hiring a senior manager to drive its mobile "wallet and offers" division. Meanwhile China's version of Foursquare, Jiepang, is testing NFC check-in stickers. All indications point to NFC coming to your smartphone sooner rather than later. READ»
As the saying goes: "Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself." Note: A dose of iFive, our early news summary, will more or less do the same thing.READ»
Google's offering free Wi-fi access in cafes--but not in the U.S. The company is busy wooing customer affections in another country: Japan, where it's losing the search engine battle.
We're used to Google dominating pretty much ...READ»
