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  • Irish company lets you pay for Xbox purchases using your mobile phone Irish mobile services company Phonovation has expanded its mobile payments service to include the purchase of Xbox LIVE Gold membership and Microsoft Points. Microsoft Points are the universal coin with which users can purchase games, movies and TV shows on their Xbox. Darren McCarra No responses 11th May 2013
  • How mobile phones and NFC are becoming the new credit card [Infographic] As near field communication (NFC) and wireless payment technology is introduced to more and more smartphones, analysts predict that the value of NFC transactions alone by 2014 will approach $50 billion, and will begin to slowly replace the humble credit card. Darren McCarra 2 responses 8th July 2011
  • Microsoft to introduce NFC mobile payment technology into Windows Mobile Microsoft are rumoured to have plans to introduce near-field communication, or NFC, technology into future versions of their Windows Mobile operating system. According to sources familiar to the plan, the first Windows Mobile devices with NFC enabled may be released later this year. Darren McCarra 2 responses 31st March 2011
  • Mobile payments up 300% during Christmas shopping season PayPal, the world’s most popular online payments and money transfer service, have today announced that they’ve witnessed a three hundred percent increase in payments made on mobile devices during the official Christmas shopping season, when compared to the same period last year. Darren McCarra No responses 17th December 2010