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Will Oyster follow Octopus?
News Mobile micropayments are back in the news after several years of analyst ambivalence over the practicality of the idea. Simply put, micropayments are very small payments ranging from a few pence to about £10, such as the small fees paid for...
[August 8, 2005, 18:40]
Will Oyster follow Octopus?
Talkback One day, not too far in the future, micropayments offerings will be used as an alternative to the high fees associated with the credit card use but applications are key in unlocking the micropayment potential.
[August 8, 2005, 21:39]
BT banks on e-commerce for spend-thrifts
News The service, the company insists, is the result of a "successful pilot" of micropayments services known as BT Array. Mike Elsden, one of BT's e-commerce team, believes the banks are slow to react to a potential money spinner: "Very few...
[October 14, 1998, 17:25]
BT rolls out one-stop shop for Web payments
News It's growing very quickly," said Ian Price, chief executive of BT Retail division BT Micropayments. But if you prepay for micropayments, you're not convinced you'll use it," he said. Price also noted that, unlike Firstgate, BT's offering will not...
[July 2, 2002, 13:28]
PayPal plugs in Azure, woos developers
News In addition, the fee rates can be changed based on the type of purchase, which should ease the chore of handling both high-value transactions and micropayments (transactions below $12) within the same application.
[July 24, 2009, 16:42]
Smart Card 2000: m-commerce has arrived
News Three years ago we felt there was a compelling need for micropayments," says Bernard Ovink, Visa International's executive for the EU region. Now.we don't see true micropayments as having a strong demand to find a solution instantly.
[February 9, 2000, 12:08]
Google introducing pay-per-view to YouTube
News We do expect over time to see micropayments and other forms of subscription models coming as well," said Google chief executive Eric Schmidt after the company reported first-quarter profits on Thursday.
[April 17, 2009, 9:59]
Professional blogger throws in the towel
News He announced that he was going to work on the blog full-time on 22 February 2005, and was seeking micropayments from regular readers. Jason Kottke, a Web designer who quit his job to run his blog full-time, has abandoned his plan to make a living...
[February 23, 2006, 11:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Its business is micropayments, the tricky business of extracting small amounts of money from people in return for small services or goods. Peppercoin was the invention of Ron Rivest and Silvo Micali, MIT professors with a track record in...
[July 2, 2004, 18:50]
Google to enable online payment for newspapers
News Google plans to build a payment platform for newspapers that want to charge for digital content, a move that would deepen the search giant's involvement in micropayments and transaction platforms. While currently in the early planning stages...
[September 11, 2009, 16:54]
How giving Twitter away can make it money
Blog Comment As for micropayments: from what I hear about donations to projects, they're pitifully small. To be honest, if people aren't prepared to try something free for a year - with a very good chance of it being free thereafter - then I doubt they'll be...
[June 22, 2009, 14:42]
Subscription for content is new Net trend Pt II
News Another model that may emerge as popular is charging "micropayments" for content, or roughly an amount of up to $5 charged to the consumer's credit card. Micropayments have become popular in Europe, analysts say, through mobile devices that charge...
[March 30, 2001, 13:54]
Technology hype comes under scrutiny
News Tablet PCs, Internet micropayments, passive RFID and video-conferencing are four technologies that are firmly stuck at the bottom of the "trough of disillusionment", according to the 2005 "Hype Cycle" of emerging technologies released by analysts...
[August 24, 2005, 16:15]
New rules tighten up e-money market
News In practice, the rigours of the new regime and the emergence of alternative methods of making micropayments may deter all but the biggest players from branching out into the issue of e-money," the firm said in an advisory note.
[April 26, 2002, 16:56]
Pre-paid 'credit' card for the Web
News This new system of payment will enable users to make micropayments online, as well as allowing them to monitor the amount of money that they are spending. Internet service provider World Online has launched the first credit card for children that...
[September 4, 2000, 14:50]
The danger in Skype's plans
News Paypal-style payment services for Skype have already been developed to handle micropayments involved in such transactions, potentially turning Skype into a sort of eBay for advice and dating services, if Skype developer Jyve has its way.
[April 4, 2005, 16:55]
Google to take on eBay and Craigslist?
News We expect that 'Google Purchases' - the new micropayments service among users - will be also introduced as a complement to 'Google Base. In a move that could put Google in competition with eBay, the search giant is testing a new service that would...
[October 26, 2005, 17:35]
Anti-spammers seek proof of senders' identity
News We can solve spam with a technical solution, rather than by going through the Congress or by implementing micropayments," said Meng Wong, founder and chief technology officer of Philadephia-based email service provider Pobox.com, a backer of SPF...
[October 27, 2003, 8:15]
Amateur Web content 'difficult to monetise'
News You can then put that up [on the Web] and generate revenue with micropayments. It is difficult to make money out of amateur Web content, such as blogs, podcasts and user reviews, experts agreed last week.
[February 28, 2006, 16:30]
E-commerce: the best is yet to come
News She also said the long-awaited rise of online "micropayments," which are payments of only a few cents for goods and services bought online, is just around the corner. Some Internet pioneers who survived the roller-coaster of the dot-com boom and...
[October 18, 2004, 9:30]
