Posts Tagged ‘payments’
Yesterday I wrote about how Google Wallet is even worse than PayPal. A quick reminder: When I buy stuff on PayPal I don’t have to pretend to have a billing address in a different country. They’re quite happy for me to use my UK issued card for payments to US suppliers. I don’t recall ever […]
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Tags: dicks, fail, fraud, geolocation, google, LTE, Nexus 7, payments, paypal, Play, resolution, store, wallet
I’ve seen a ton of bad news stories about PayPal over the last few years – here are just the top three from my payments tag on pinboard.in. I’ve even run afoul of their over sensitive fraud detection myself in the last couple of months (whilst trying to buy Club Penguin subscriptions for my kids whilst […]
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Tags: fail, fraud, geolocation, google, LTE, Nexus 7, payments, paypal, Play, resolution, store
Indistinguishable from fraud
I came across this tweet yesterday: It was timely, as I was in the midst of sorting out a foreign exchange transaction that had gone wrong. I’d sent $250 to a recipient in the US, and only $230 had shown up in their account (and then their bank had charged them $12 for the privilege […]
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Tags: banking, charges, fees, financial services, fraud, FX, international, payments, spreads
One of the great disappointments for me in last week’s launch of the iPhone 5 is that it doesn’t come with near field communications (NFC) capabilities. This was explained in an interview with Senior VP Phil Schiller: It’s not clear that NFC is the solution to any current problem, Schiller said. “Passbook does the kinds of […]
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Tags: apple, authentication, NFC, payments, terminal, token
Shortly before digging into the copy of Cognitive Surplus I bought on Google ebooks the other day I read this piece comparing the relative merits of Google, Amazon and Apple’s offerings. One of the areas of the store/reading experience it didn’t touch on was gifting. Since getting my Kindle I don’t really want any more […]
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Tags: amazon, apple, content, DRM, ebook, geography, gift card, gifting, google, Google checkout, iBook, payments, publishing
One of the big tech news items today is the launch of the much anticipated Google eBooks. Sadly the service is only available in the US at the moment, so I thought I’d have a poke around and see what the hurdles were. US Browsing Browsing from my regular connection at home I could only see […]
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Tags: Adobe, amazon, Amex, Calibre, convert, Digital Editions, DRM, ebook, epub, google, Google books, kindle, mobi, payments, proxy, UK, US
Region locks – My 2¢
Since I started using Amazon EC2 as a web proxy I’ve found that I’m exploiting it pretty regularly. Every time that I see one of those ‘you can’t access that content from your country’ type messages I have a choice. I can give up and move on, or I can fork out 2¢ to spin up […]
Filed under: could_do_better, media, technology | 2 Comments
Tags: amazon, aws, ec2, lock, micro payments, micropayments, payments, proxy, region, region lock, SSH, tunnel, video
3D (in)Secure
It’s not news that the 3D Secure system that gets branded as ‘Verified by Visa’ is a steaming pile of something that should be scraped off shoes rather than presented on screens. Ben Laurie was the first serious voice of dissent (that I noticed), but then along came Ross Anderson and Steven Murdoch to ensure […]
Filed under: could_do_better, security | 2 Comments
Tags: 3D Secure, additional cardholder, cardholder not present, CNP, credit, credit card, joint account, liability, payments, phishing, security, Verified by Visa
iPod, eBook, dAllowance
‘Can I have an iPod Touch for my birthday?’ asked my five year old daughter yesterday (the birthday isn’t far away), ‘Susie has one, and she’s 6’. ‘No’, came my reply, ‘I gave you an iPod mini just a few weeks ago’. We’ve been going through a bit of an iPod upgrade cycle around the […]
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Tags: allowance, amazon, credit card, debit card, ebay, ebook, ipod, itunes, money, payments, paypal, pocket money
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