The CEO Guide To Mobile Payments

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January 6, 2011
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SPECIAL REPORT  CEO GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY The CEO Guide To Mobile Payments Learn how companies including Wells Fargo, Google, Starbucks, McDonald's, AT&T and Verizon Wireless are using near-field communications to help consumers make purchases with a mobile phone

Inside: CEO Guide to Technology Consumers may soon be able to use mobile phones at restaurants and retailers to make payments. This month's CEO Guide to Mobile Payments looks at how companies such as Wells Fargo and Visa are testing services that let consumers use mobile phones instead of credit cards to make purchases. Google may also be getting into the game with its own service. Read on to see which companies are leading the way. —Rachael King Sign-Up for the CEO Guide to Tech Newsletter

SPECIAL REPORT  CEO GUIDE TO MOBILE PAYMENTS Wells Fargo to Employees: Leave Wallets Home, Pay by Phone Using 200 of its San Francisco staff, the bank will test mobile-phone payments for six months—and may launch a commercial service soon after 1/4 In the Works: A Google Mobile Payment Service? "You'll be able to walk in a store and do commerce," says Google's Eric Schmidt. "You'd bump for everything and eventually replace credit cards" 1/4 Slide Show: Companies Lead the Way in Mobile Payments Banks, retailers, food vendors, credit-card companies, and device manufacturers are testing programs in the U.S. and overseas that let customers buy products and even receive coupons via mobile phones 1/4 Podcast: Pay by Phone on the Horizon In the near future it may be possible for some consumers in the U.S. to use their mobile phones instead of credit or debit cards to pay for purchases 1/4 Video: Visa Tries Mobile Payments Some consumers will soon start paying for purchases with their mobile phones rather than with plastic credit and debit cards 1/4 Archive: CEO Guide to Technology Browse past editions of this special report on emerging tech trends 1/3 SPECIAL REPORT  CEO GUIDE TO CLOUD COMPUTING Flextronics, Siemens Lead 'Big Shift' to Cloud Computing After years of experimenting with the cloud, companies are turning over ever larger tasks to outside providers that deliver software and computing over the Internet 12/7 Slide Show: Your Life in the Cloud Cloud services are inexorably affecting our daily lives. About 87 percent of consumers with computers and Internet access say they use at least one cloud-based service, according to a survey earlier this year by ABI Research 12/7 Here Come the Cloud Services Brokers As companies start shifting computing tasks to outside providers in the cloud, intermediaries have emerged to help them do it. Systems Integrator Appirio has already made a name for itself 12/6 Podcast: The Cloud Goes Corporate A big shift is about to happen in the way CIOs buy technology. Some CIOs say that in the future they'll rent cloud services instead of buying and administering the hardware and software themselves 12/7 Video: CIO Takes Chance on Cloud Flextronics shifted human resources to Workday and saved millions of dollars. Here's why CIO David Smoley is taking a chance on cloud computing and software as a service 12/7 SPECIAL REPORT  CEO GUIDE TO MOBILE BUSINESS APPS Mobile Business Apps Flourish at IBM, Google As more companies let smartphones into the workplace, demand is surging for downloadable apps that let employees work on the go 11/2 MicroStrategy's Corporate Apps Boost Productivity The software maker bought 1,200 iPads and started stocking them with its own mobile corporate apps, letting managers and workers achieve more 11/1 Slide Show: Android Apps for Business Sales of smartphones based on Google's Android operating system have begun to surpass Apple's iPhone in the U.S. With increasing interest in Android handsets, mobile application developers are starting to make business-specific apps 11/2 Video: Line2 App Goes Corporate Toktumi's Line2 app takes mobile devices such as the iPad and iPod Touch and turns them into full-featured business phones 11/2 Podcast: The Post-PC Era By 2015, about half the devices connected to corporate networks will be mobile. Here's what it means for your company 11/2 SPECIAL REPORT  CEO GUIDE TO HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING At GM, High-Performance Computing Curbs Test Costs The automaker—along with Boeing, DreamWorks, Eli Lilly, and other companies—is using high-performance computers that run at almost 1 petaflops to improve products we use every day 10/5 China's Leap in Supercomputer Rankings In merely a decade, China has become the world's third-greatest power in high-performance computing. Will it soon boast the fastest computer? 10/5 Slide Show: Designed with Supercomputers Companies use virtual simulation with supercomputers to get products to market cheaper and faster. Here's a look at some products designed with the help of powerful computers 10/5 Podcast: Companies Use World's Fastest Computers Peter Sondergaard, Gartner's Global Head of Research, talks with Bloomberg Businessweek's Rachael King about how high-performance computers help companies simulate products virtually and innovate without spending money on physical prototypes 10/5 Video: How Virtual Power Leads To Innovation Tim Cox, GM's process information officer, talks about how high-performance computers help companies simulate products virtually and innovate without spending money on physical prototypes 10/5 SPECIAL REPORT  CEO GUIDE TO COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE Workers of the World, Innovate Pitney Bowes, AT&T, and Electronic Arts are among the companies using software to tap workers' collective intelligence to solve problems, reduce costs, and find new markets 9/9 Slide Show: Companies that Innovate Collectively You can never predict who might have a good idea. That's why companies are starting to enlist employees to make innovations both big and small, even if it's not part of their job description 9/9 Book Review: Secrets of the Moneylab: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Your Business Authors Kay-Yut Chen and Marina Krakovsky look at how research in human behavior saved HP millions of dollars, and offer lessons for other companies 9/9 Podcast: Open Innovation Josh Bernoff, co-author of a new book called Empowered, talks about how employees outside of research and development can generate innovative and profitable ideas 9/9 Video: Cisco Seeks Big Ideas Cisco tries to find its next big business ideas from employees and outsiders alike 9/9 TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LIBRARY Powered By IT white papers, webcasts and reports for tech leaders and decision-makers SEARCH LIBRARY Most Popular White Papers Help | Advanced Search Find new documents on these hot topics now: Business Intelligence | Network Security | Storage Management | Wireless LANs | VoIP  BW MALL  SPONSORED LINKS Buy a link now! 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