PlaySpan has announced the launch of UltimatePay Mobile, a “virtual currency and micropayments monetization widget for leading smartphone platforms.” The initial private beta launch will support HTML5, and is designed to work on all Android* smartphones, as well as Nokia phones with WebRuntime installed.

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Doctor’s Associates, the parent company of SUBWAY, and Think Computer Corporation have announced that FaceCash will now be accepted at certain SUBWAY locations in California. FaceCash is a mobile payment system that allows consumers to use their cell phones to make purchases at the point of sale. “FaceCash gets its name from its unique security process. During a purchase, the consumer’s face appears on the merchant’s register to verify identity.”

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Headline News is compiled by Glenbrook Partners: Vindicia Secures $20 Million in Series E Financing iPhone Credit Card Swiper Adds Retail Transaction Support to Swipe Credit Card Terminal Square Enix Selects PlaySpan’s UltimatePay for Payment Processing Services TransCard Announces a Turnkey Bank and Prepaid Processing Solution for Members of the Prepaid Community European Specialists Team Up to Define Security Standards for Next-Generation Mobile Devices TechCrunch: Amazon Now Allows You To Send Gift Cards To Friends On Facebook Note: Throughout the day, as we spot interesting developments, this post is updated.

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Mitek has announced a new app that lets users pay bills with their smartphone camera. After establishing online-bill-payment arrangements as part of their banking account, users of Mobile Photo Bill Pay can initiate e-bill-payment sessions on their smartphones, then simply snap photos of the bills they want to pay, verify the payment information and click on the app’s “PAY” button. The app eliminates the hassle of users setting up information for individual payee accounts because Mitek technology extracts the data from the photo image and automatically provides it to the financial institution’s bill-processing system in the required format.

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Lightspeed Research has announced the results of a new study showing that half of mobile users in the U.S. have made purchases from their mobile phone. “Phone apps or games were the most popular items purchased via mobile, music and ringtones coming a distant second and third.” The survey also includes survey data on mobile payment preference, cut by age and gender. The full survey results are available for download.

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Monitise has announced its enhanced technology platform which “incorporates a range of mobile banking and payment services to deliver fast, secure financial management by mobile phone across the world. The platform enables financial institutions, mobile phone networks, service providers, payment companies and processors to offer a wide variety of Mobile Money services in both developed and emerging markets.” The platform offers the following products: * Monitise Mobile Wallet – setting up a virtual wallet on a mobile handset to enable mobile payments and commerce for people without bank accounts, and managing the associated agent networks * Monitise Mobile Payments and…

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The market for NFC (Near Field Communication) mobile payments in the U.S. is in the nascent stage with an adoption rate of only 1.7%; this represents a huge opportunity for early movers offering the same. Adopting NFC mobile payment will open new revenue channels for banks as well as mobile operators as more than 94% of the U.S. population owns a mobile phone, and 60% of these have a card slot in their mobile phone. With the help of NFC technology, banks will be able to tap micro transactions made by cash, representing around 20% of the total transactions in the U.S. This will also help banks to capture the growing GEN Y population as well as the huge underbanked and unbanked population.

With Mobile phones becoming essential commodity in todays time. But the ever increasing mobile bills have added to agony of users. However, we now have a solution in terms of PAY as you mobile phones.

The pay as you go mobile phones come with plenty of benefits and options that give the users an opportunity to select appropriate mobile deals as per their specific needs. These handsets are a perfect idea for those who want to keep their eyes on the monthly expenses of their ever exceeding mobile bills.

Apparel Group Loyalty Program “Club Apparel” was launched few days ago in Dubai in cooperation with Imovation. Club Apparel is the first Mobile Loyalty Program in UAE and it’s based on globally patented Margento technology.
It enables local as well as international shoppers benefit from using their personal mobile phones to identify themselves at affiliated points of sale. Collecting and redeeming of points is done through a simple phone call. All transactions are quick and take very little effort, while still guaranteeing a high degree of security.

275 Apparel stores are part of the Club Apparel scheme and equipped with the Margento POS terminals. After successful launch, Apparel Club will role out to the group’s other stores across the Middle East.

Telargo’s Delivery manager is the first complete Android based delivery management application. Watch it in action on Google Nexus One phone.

It allows the user to optimize, verify, track, navigate to and report the statuses of a complete range of daily trip orders in real time.What looks to be a fancy user interface application is running on extensive Telargo system, that allows trip orders to be scheduled, optimized and tracked in the most demanding real time situations.

Some of the benefits of Delivery Manager for Android

1. Workflow support
2. Real time trip order execution
3. Integrated CRM data
4. Navigation
5. Proof of delivery signature capture
6. Bar code scanning

The Android based Delivery manager is running as an upgrade of the Telargo On-board hardware. A reliable and robust Telargo technology has been proven in some of the world’s most demanding environments, subject to the outages of GPS signal due to high buildings (Hong Kong, New York), tunnels (Alpine regions ) and weather influences (Dubai, Sumatra).

More about Telargo at: telargo.com