Google will announce a new mobile payments system on Thursday, Bloomberg reported Tuesday,?adding even more urgency to the all-out arms-race taking place in the point-of-sale digital money space. The announcement will include news of a partnership with mobile service provider Sprint to roll out a mobile-payments system based on Near Field Communication, or NFC, technology, Bloomberg said, citing ?three people familiar with the matter.?
Google had scheduled a press conference Thursday in New York. On Tuesday, company officials declined to elaborate on the announcement or comment on the Bloomberg report.
The report comes one day after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey unveiled Square Register, which will allow merchants to manage inventory and run analytics against their sales ? without expensive equipment and high fees. Last week, financial services giant Visa announced plans for a digital wallet based on NFC.
NFC-fans believe the technology will become the standard format for mobile payments. Google?s plan to begin testing its own mobile-payments system was reported months ago, and will install thousands of NFC units made by VeriFone Systems at merchant locations in New York and San Francisco.
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Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/05/google-mobile-payments/
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