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Residents of Bangalore, India, soon will be able to pay their water bills online or with their mobile phones under a pilot the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board is overseeing, a spokesperson for the agency tells CardLine.
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New technology enabling credit card marketers to create cell phone text-message dialogues with customers could enhance their marketing and collection efforts, and one analyst says the technology could be "a potent new tool" as text messaging becomes more routine.
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Merchants that accept payments through PayPal Inc. can begin conducting mobile credit card transactions through an agreement between PayPal and Billing Revolution, according to the Seattle-based provider of mobile-payments technology.
November 5 -
The National Bank of Kuwait has launched a contactless mobile-payments test in Kuwait that relies on Near Field Communication technology. The test also involves Visa Inc., Kuwait-based mobile-network operator Zain and United States-based contactless-technology vendor Vivotech Inc., which is providing the electronic wallets for the NFC-enabled phones and over-the-air provisioning software. The test, scheduled to run until April, involves no fewer than 500 of the bank's credit cardholders and relies on Nokia 6212 handsets. Trial participants download Visa credit card-account details to their mobile phones. Participants can use their phones to make contactless purchases at some 100 merchants located at The Avenues mall.
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