Sentence examples for wireless payments from inspiring English sources

It also has a chip that helps it make wireless payments.

It was Apple's biggest product launch since the iPad, though wireless payments and smartwatches are not new and have so far failed to grip the imagination of consumers.

In the new product, Apple also chose not to support near-field communication wireless technology, which can be used to make wireless payments but has been slow to take off.

Dunkelberger says his company's software can make similar use of the security chip included with the near-field communications hardware in some phones, which is used for making wireless payments.

Good news for people suffering from discomfort caused by sitting on a thick wallet full of credit cards and credit card receipts for a long duration: Visa, the credit card company, said it supported making wireless payments through some smartphones, though it would replace the plastic Visa cards issued by banks.

It lets users tap their phones on merchants' terminals to make wireless payments.Such technology has been around for years.

There is already a limited form of wireless payment in at least some department stores.

The crooks have not broken the secure encryption around Apple Pay's fingerprint-activated wireless payment mechanism.

In September, Google introduced Google Wallet, a near field system for some Android phones, and rumors abound that Apple has been planning similar wireless payment methods for iPhones.

Google Wallet transactions work with terminals equipped with PayPass, a wireless payment technology that enables you to tap your smartphone against an electronic reader at checkout.

He also said the venture could set a difficult precedent in Europe, where countries are beginning to grapple with the issues raised by national wireless payment networks.