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Android Wear 2.0 supports HCE mobile payments
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/android-wear-2-0-supports-hce-mobile-payments/Last week, Google released the fifth and final developer preview for Android Wear 2.0. The dev preview includes a number of bug fixes and enhancements, along with support for NFC host card emulation (HCE) to enable easy mobile payments. As Jeff Chang, product manager of Android Wear at Google, told The Verge, the company will also […]
The wearables-mobile payment connection
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/the-wearables-mobile-payment-connection/Kirsty Tull, director of marketing and communications, BillPro.com, has written an article for MobilePaymentsToday about the positive role wearables could potentially play in the mobile payments sector. “Wearable payment devices and mobile payments are tightly linked. Mobile payments have paved the way for the versatility of wearables,” she explained. “[However], for wearables to be the […]
Mobile proximity payments to hit $92 billion by 2019
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/mobile-proximity-payments-to-hit-92-billion-by-2019/With mobile proximity payments projected to reach $92 billion by 2019, merchants and card issuers are reportedly rushing to release branded mobile apps that capitalize on both in-store and online payments growth. According to Javelin, hundreds of new payment apps will flood the market by 2018, although fragmented payments apps are ultimately expected to converge […]
Amazon eyes a new shopping paradigm with Go
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/amazon-eyes-a-new-shopping-paradigm-with-go-2/Amazon is currently beta testing a new type of brick-and-mortar store that replaces the traditional checkout lines and registers with a Just Walk Out Shopping experience. Shoppers simply load up the Amazon Go app upon entering the store, take the products they want and go. “Our checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by the same […]
Biometric security and the future of mobile payments
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/biometric-security-and-the-future-of-mobile-payments-2/According to Patrick Moorhead, Principal Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, security has become one of the “biggest issues” in today’s technologically-connected society. “We use mobile devices to transfer money, pay bills and even to share our health information. Nevertheless, most users don’t want to spend a great deal of time thinking about the security […]
Future smart buildings will adapt and learn
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/future-smart-buildings-will-adapt-and-learn-2/Tom Carroll of JLL property services recently penned an article for the UK-based publication Computing that explores the future of intelligent buildings. As Carroll explains, advanced sensors and the ubiquitous adoption of mobile devices, combined with the rapidly burgeoning IoT, will transform the services a building is capable of offering. “[This will] optimize energy provision, […]
Wearables eyed for mobile payments
http://www.rambusblog.com/2016/11/14/wearables-eyed-for-mobile-payments/#new_tabAccording to Samsung, wearable vendors and banks have been piloting and launching a number of solutions that employ multiple types of near field communication (NFC)- enabled form factors, including fobs, rings and stickers in addition to smartwatches and wristbands. Although wearable payments are considered an early niche market, gradual growth is projected as the industry […]
Wearables eyed for mobile payments
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/wearables-eyed-for-mobile-payments-2/According to Samsung, wearable vendors and banks have been piloting and launching a number of solutions that employ multiple types of near field communication (NFC)- enabled form factors, including fobs, rings and stickers in addition to smartwatches and wristbands. Although wearable payments are considered an early niche market, gradual growth is projected as the industry […]
The evolving requirements of IoT security
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/the-evolving-requirements-of-iot-security-2/Ed Sperling and Jeff Dorsch of Semiconductor Engineering recently penned an article about the future of IoT security. Specifically, the two journalists highlighted the distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against Dyn which saw waves of attacks created by Mirai malware. “Connected devices of all sizes can [now] be amassed into an army of bots […]
Semiconductor Engineering highlights side-channel attacks
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/semiconductor-engineering-highlights-side-channel-attacks-2/Brian Bailey of Semiconductor Engineering has written an article that highlights the danger side-channel attacks pose to connected devices and systems. “As the world begins to take security more seriously, it becomes evident that a device is only as secure as its weakest component. No device can be made secure by protecting against a single kind of […]
