News tagged with payment terminal

4 personal finance technology trends for 2012

(AP) -- If you're one of the holdouts still paying bills with checks, tracking your accounts with pen and paper or clipping coupons from the newspaper, 2012 could be the year you take the digital plunge.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Google launches trial of tap-to-pay phone system

Google Inc. launched its bid to dominate a world where the smartphone has replaced the wallet as the container for credit cards, coupons and receipts.

Technology / Telecom

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Rise of for-profit hospice industry raises troubling questions, new study says

A new survey of hospice care in the United States says that the rapidly growing role of for-profit companies in providing end-of-life care for terminally ill patients raises serious concerns about whose interests are being ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tickets, coupons among uses for tap-to-pay phones

(AP) -- Cell phones are usually used to communicate with people far away. This year, they'll get the ability to do the opposite: communicate with things that are close enough to touch.

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

BMJ raises concerns over 'outlawed' gagging clauses in NHS contracts

Despite government outlawing of gagging clauses in NHS contracts, new evidence published in the British Medical Journal today reveals how some trusts have continued to use them.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Nokia seeks gold in mobile payments startup Obopay

(AP) -- Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of cell phones, is making a large investment in a California-based startup that wants to make the mobile phone the credit card of the developing world.

Technology / Business

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0