Though Shamim suggested that reporters should not jump to any conclusions about a connection, he acknowledged there were unconfirmed suspicions that one of the slain gunmen carried a mobile phone card activated in Calcutta.
For example, associates ensure quick check-out through the sophisticated use of technology including mobile phone credit card payments.
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It will roll out a service this fall, so any Indian with a mobile phone and a Visa card can transfer funds domestically to any other Visa cardholder for a 2% fee (to be split by the card-issuing bank, mobile phone vendor and Visa).
He was robbed of his mobile phone and bank card before he was battered unconscious.
Cyclists will be able to pay using their mobile phone or cash card - receiving the first 30 minutes free.
Its patent-pending In2Pay microSD solution, transforms any mobile phone with a memory card slot into an interactive contactless transaction device.
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They were also more trusting of the medium, and more likely to give out personal information such as bank, credit card and mobile phone details.
The public will increasingly demand its security, integrity, and its many conveniences such as reduced queuing time for payments using payWave, PayPass, or ExpressPay, with a plastic card or mobile phone.
In the US, it has already brought out a similar device, a dongle that can be plugged into a mobile phone to act as a credit card reader.
Payment is made either with an authorization card or via a mobile phone app.
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Indeed, people worried about potentially cheating spouses may find praying together a better safeguard against adultery than checking mobile-phone bills and scrutinising credit-card receipts and one that builds trust, rather than destroying it.
Whether the choice of payment is by debit or credit card, gift card, check or mobile phone, online or at the checkout counter, First Data takes every opportunity to go beyond the transaction.
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Credits can be purchased via credit card, Paypal, mobile phone or through the gift cards currently being sold in Target retail stores around the U.S. Over 200 games and applications on Facebook currently use Facebook Credits system, according to Liu, spanning over 75 developers.
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Taking a look at some more statistics available from Statista, we see that mobile phone payment accounts actually outnumber credit and debit card accounts.
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As a portable and truly personal computer, indeed, the mobile phone may turn out to be the credit card, or even identity card, of the future, making payments and opening doors.
Your mobile phone, acting as a store of your credit card data, sends it wirelessly to a nearby receiver, which could be another phone, a dedicated terminal, or a payments module embedded in, say, a vending machine.
Nextdoor verifies each person's address by using one of four methods: credit- or debit-card number, landline phone number, mobile-phone number or by mailing a postcard that includes an invite code.
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Swiping a credit card through the phone to finalize a transaction make that mobile device even more indispensable.
This is because at the moment the mobile phone operating companies cannot tell us if users accessing content via a 3G card are roaming or not.
The way it works: consumers touch a payment device (which is in the form of either a plastic card or a sticker that can be applied to a mobile phone or any personal item) to a Zip-enabled contactless reader to make a payment.
Good timing, perhaps, for card-processing giant Visa to wave the flag in Myanmar for card payments, with an emphasis on the potential for mobile-phone transfers to speed up the rollout of financial services.
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Finestrella sells its post-paid mobile plans at mobile phone stores, on the street and telephonically to customers without a bank account, credit card or credit history.
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Mostly because Maria does not have a bank account, credit card or credit history, she had been unable to acquire a postpaid mobile phone to help her manage her business better.
At a third of the size of a normal card, it can be discreetly and simply stuck to the back of any mobile phone.
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He took a mobile phone and house keys from the victim, Claire McAulay, and went to her home and got her bank card and prescription tablets.
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The carriers say they want to encrypt and store the credentials in the phone's SIM card, the small chips placed in the back of phones to activate access to mobile networks.
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