BURLINGTON, Mass. – EasCorp FCU, which pioneered mobile deposits over Apple’s iPhone last month, on Wednesday said it has introduced an application that will enable deposits over Google’s Android cell phone.

Merchants appear to like VeriFone Holdings Inc.’s PayWare mobile-phone payment service on Apple Inc.’s iPhone and their customers are completing big-ticket purchases using the devices.

Nokia Corp. plans to team up with Mumbai-based Yes Bank to plot Nokia Money, a mobile-commerce platform, in India, a Bangalore-based official at the Finnish Handset Maker tells PaymentsSource.

TUKWILA, Wash. – BECU plans to roll out CashEdge’s Intelligent Money Movement POPmoney person-to-person payments service in the next few weeks.

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. – United FCU yesterday announced it is implementing Financial Management Solutions’ Lobby Tracking System that monitors lobby traffic flow and collects real-time product and service sales data – per branch and individual service representative.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Three Rivers FCU yesterday said it has selected GMT Corp.’s On-Demand branch workforce optimization solution.

WARMINISTER, Penn. – Freedom CU has joined twitter, at twitter.com/FreedomCUinPA, as part of the credit union’s social media strategy.

DENVER – Public Service CU has selected VSoft Corp.’s Straight Through Image Processing services.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. – Royal CU, which is integrating new branches from its merger with REAL Financial CU and the acquisition of Anchorank branches, is rolling out new digital signs form StrandVision of Menomonie, Wis.

Time may be running out for contactless “tap and go” payment to prove itself as a viable concept as it languishes some five years after the technology’s U.S. launch.

Mocapay Inc., a Denver-based mobile loyalty and gift card technology company, last week unveiled a platform enabling merchants to give customers a one-time authorization code to conduct point-of-sale payments from prepaid accounts using mobile handsets.

Five years ago, biometric payments seemed ready for the American mainstream. Backers predicted that financial institutions and retailers soon would use fingerprint, palm, vein, iris or facial scans to verify consumers’ identities for ATM and point-of-sale transactions.

LAS VEGAS-Spiders make their webs sticky to capture their next meal-CUs need to do the same thing with their websites.

LAS VEGAS-NAFCU Services has partnered with GeniusRocket.com, a Washington-based company that has a team of creative innovators that works for cash prizes, to create TV ads.

LAS VEGAS — Credit Union Journal asked attendees of NAFCU's Technology & Security Conference what are the biggest technology and/or security issues-both positive and negative-for their credit unions.

WARMINSTER, Penn. – Freedom CU said it is implementing mobile banking services through CO-OP Financial Services’ CO-OP Mobile.

The South Florida Regional Transportation Authority this week awarded a $15 million transit smart card contract to Cubic Transportation Systems Inc. San Diego-based Cubic will design and install the system that will be compatible with the contactless Easy Card launched in October in Miami-Dade County.

Small business owners do not expect any major improvement in the economy in the next few months, according to data from Discover Financial Services.

As alternative payment schemes continue to proliferate, some contenders this year are aiming to rise above the fray by combining fresh shortcuts to achieve the desired scale with uncommon payment technologies not easily copied by rivals.

Citigroup Inc. is evaluating a new mobile service that monitors where people do their shopping, but has no actual banking functions.