Elephant Talk and Mobile Wallets - The Next Trillion Dollar Revolution

Another financial institution entered the lucrative mobile payment fray Wednesday as Canada’s largest bank teamed up with Interac to demonstrate touch-free debit transactions for smartphones. With a fast-payment-for-fast-food flourish, Royal Bank of Canada showed off its new Interac application at a McDonald’s restaurant in Toronto using BlackBerry smartphones.

By Trefis: Mobile phones have come a long way from the (9 inches long, 5 inches deep and 1.75 inches wide) initial prototype first developed by Motorola.The modern day smartphone has had a big impact on most of our lives, with applications developed for nearly all our daily needs and wants. Mobile phones have now become as indispensable as wallets, which leads to the idea – what if mobile phones could replace wallets?

Dustin Moore submits: On January 12, 2011, Elephant Talk Communications (ETAK.OB) signed an agreement to become Cleartech’s Mobile Virtual Network Enabler, or MVNE, partner in Brazil. Cleartech is a joint-venture by several large companies, including EDS, a division of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ). It is t

By Dana Blankenhorn: After I wrote about transaction security recently a reader suggested I take a look at a company he thinks has solved the problem, Elephant Talk (ETAK).This one's for you.

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By TechCrunch: By Jordan Crook Near Field Communication (NFC) will be ubiquitous one day, but we still have quite a ways to go. Unlike other smartphone features, this requires adoption on a huge scale from just about everyone, which will definitely take a while. But we are getting closer.