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How the Internet of Things is becoming the 'Internet of Commerce’

How the Internet of Things is becoming the 'Internet of Commerce’ | Internet of Things & Wearable Technology Insights | Scoop.it

From a purely technical perspective, adding mobile payment hardware (NFC) to a device is easy, which is why major tech companies have been doing it since 2007.

The challenge, however, was creating safe services, at scale, that could make payments as digital as the people who will use them.

MasterCard has answered the call through with a variety of mobile payment innovations, from its digital wallet service MasterPass, to contactless technologies that make transactions faster, to commerce platforms like Android PayTM, Apple PayTM and Samsung Pay, even advanced tokenization services.

The future of payments doesn't just live on a smartphone, though....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Lots of new developments on the mobile and IoT payments horizon.

Jeff Domansky's curator insight, February 28, 2016 9:41 PM

Lots of new developments on the mobile and IoT payments horizon.

delphine crommelinck's curator insight, March 23, 2016 5:24 AM

Lots of new developments on the mobile and IoT payments horizon.

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Some Finnish Engineers Would Like You To Put This Tiny Square Computer In Your Pocket

Some Finnish Engineers Would Like You To Put This Tiny Square Computer In Your Pocket | Internet of Things & Wearable Technology Insights | Scoop.it

Solu is a coaster-sized cloud-based portable computer that fits in your pocket. A team of Finnish engineers behind the device hope Solu will change the way we think of using our digital operating systems.

Sure, we already have our portable computing devices such as iPads and smartphones, but Solu founder Kristoffer Lawson wants us to stop lugging all our heavy laptops and notebooks around and jump into the cloud-based era of “computer-as-a-service.”

“What you’re seeing on the screen, these are not just applications or files. Whenever I zoom in on something I immediately start interacting with it and I can share it,” he explained to TechCrunch in the video above....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

A true pocket computer is near, but they'll have to convince us that it's different from a smart phone and why we need it in addition to our mobile phone.

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