Users of new technology often invite derision—Google Glass wearers are "Glassholes," iPhone devotees are "iSheep"—and mobile wallet users may soon be the next target of such ridicule.

Square has added and removed many features over its few short years as it refines its mobile-pay pitch in an effort to win more merchants. Its removal of the Square Wallet app was the latest of many revisions to the company's strategy.

The Dutch startup Eaze has begun the public beta of its "Nod to Pay" app for the Google Glass headset and has added support for two Bitcoin wallets.

Google now allows Android device users to fund app purchases with a PayPal account, but hasn't gone so far as to enable the rival payment method as a funding source for all Google Wallet purchases.

Square now allows merchants to refund part of a sale made through its Square Register mobile point of sale app.

PayPoint plc's PayByPhone has acquired Adaptis Services Ltd. and entered into a partnership with the City of Paris to bring mobile payments to 155,000 parking spaces.

Square's latest flurry of features came just in time for Souvla, a new Greek sandwich shop and wine bar in San Francisco.

When Ben Milne was running a manufacturing company in Iowa, "you could not get around credit card fees," he recalls.

Zuppler and LevelUp are enabling restaurants to offer patrons the option to pre-order and pay for food online or through mobile phones.

Online payments provider 2Checkout is introducing application programming interface libraries that enable merchants to customize the shopping experience.

Yapital Financial AG is seeking bank partners to further expand its European cross-channel payment system.

Isis, the mobile wallet venture of AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile, has activated an average of 20,000 new mobile wallets per day in the past 30 days.

HyperWallet Systems Inc. now supports direct-to-bank transfers in India using local currency.

The card manufacturer ABnote is working with SimplyTapp, a Near Field Communication technology provider, to support Host Card Emulation tech in a jointly developed product.

Live Gamer, a digital commerce provider, will offer its new Pay+ and Elements global payment platforms for the education industry.

Bluetooth-based beacons, which detect when customers enter a merchant's store, will dramatically change how businesses manage identity, payments and customer engagement, said Patrick Gauthier, PayPal's head of emerging services.

Executives at processor Total System Services can't predict which of the many existing mobile payments technologies will dominate the payments landscape of the future, but they plan to aggressively go after the processing business that follows.

Square Inc. now lets its merchants get feedback from customers through a response window added to its digital receipts. Appropriately, the new service is called Square Feedback.

Jusp, an Italian maker of mobile payment systems, is offering its technology on Nokia's Windows-based Lumia smartphones.

If Apple isn't quite ready to enter the mobile payments field in the U.S., it might be leaning toward China as its initial proving ground.