People already use their cell phones to read e-mail messages, take pictures and play video games. Before long, they may use them in place of their wallets. By embedding in the cell phone a computer ...

Imagine a technology that lets you pay for products just by waving your cell phone over a reader. The technology exists, and, in fact, people in Japan have been using it for the last five years to pay ...

You can, but there are potential benefits and drawbacks to consider, depending on your mobile provider. Many or all of the products on this page are from partners who compensate us when you click to ...

NTT DoCoMo has attracted more than 860,000 people to its DCMX service that allows a cell phone to be used to make credit purchases in stores, it said Thursday. The service was launched in late April ...

Amazon is the latest company to move into the ultra-hot area of mobile payments with a new hardware/software combination called Amazon Local Register. It’s essentially a credit card reader that ...

The vast majority of Americans have a cellphone. Pew Research data from 2021 shows that 97% of Americans do, and 85% of those are smartphones. It's kind of astonishing how quickly mobile phone ...