Monday, September 3, 2007

Google looks at payments by mobile phone

The emergence of a patent filing has stoked speculation that Google is working on a mobile phone-based payments service dubbed “Gpay” that could be rolled out by the internet search giant with a new phone handset.

Speculation hit fever pitch last week over the possible shape of Google’s next foray into telecoms as a host of blogs carried pictures of what was claimed to be a low-cost, internet enabled handset – the “Gphone”.

The fresh patent, which was filed last year by Google but has only just been published, describes how a text message from a mobile phone could trigger a “computer-implemented method of effectuating an electronic on-line payment”.

from Times online

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

google gonna be big in the mobile business soon..

Anonymous said...

It's interesting to see just how permeant virtual memory has become in our lives. It seems like everytime I turn my head, I see something with a card slot or USB jack, lol. I guess it makes sense though, considering how inexpensive memory has become lately...

Ahhh, I shouldn't be complaining. I can't get by a day without using my R4 / R4i!

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