I recently completed a six part series examining alternative payment systems and comparing them to the PayPal X Platform. As I wrapped that up, I asked readers to weigh-in on which topic they’d like to read about next. I received votes for several topics on the list including a request for coverage of the eBay [...]
I’ve written some about Square and their mobile card reader before. Click here to read my most recent article on them, part of my alternative payment systems series. The problem is, Square’s dongle has been hacked. And hacking it is pretty embarrassingly simple to do, it seems. The gist is this: Square’s dongle plugs into [...]
This is the third part of a multi-part series examining alternative payment systems and how they compare to the PayPal X Platform and to each other. In part one I introduced Amazon’s Flexible Payments Service. Part two discussed Facebook Credits. This time we are going to look at Google payments related technologies, focusing most intently [...]
May has been a particularly busy month with a lot of news and development on the payments and developer fronts. Let’s dive in! I published the final part of my “Integrating Payments into WordPress” series this month, part3 on building your own PayPal WordPress plugin. This series showed you how to install and use WordPress, [...]
I’m currently writing a series of articles for the DevZone comparing the PayPal X Platform and its capabilities to alternative payment systems. So far, I’ve written articles discussing Amazon’s Flexible Payments Service (FPS), Facebook Credits, and Google payment technologies including Google Checkout and Google Wallet (read my related blog post from last week on the [...]
Google officially announced their new NFC-based mobile wallet solution today. And the name is, drumroll please… OK, no points for naming creativity. And truthfully this announcement has been expected, even talked about fairly openly by top Googlers such as Eric Schmidt, for some time. Still, it pulls together several key techologies and components to build [...]
PayPal’s mobile app for Android now supports check capture. This brings it into parity with the iPhone app’s check capture support which I wrote about in late 2010. From the PayPal blog announcement: On average, about a million dollars per month have been uploaded since we launched mobile check capture on the iPhone. That’s a [...]
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Apigee’s PayPal and other development consoles. I’ve written a number of things about them for the PayPal X Developer Network including an article titled “Accelerate Your Development Using the Apigee API Console” and a number of blog posts on developing using their consoles, too. So when I [...]
PayPal recently announced their purchase of FigCard, makers of an emerging mobile payments system. The official PayPal blog post on the purchase noted: Fig Card developed an extremely easy way for merchants to accept mobile payments in stores by using a simple and very low cost USB device that plugs into the cash register or [...]
We’ve had some pretty serious April showers in my part of the US and they didn’t bring May flowers, but rather flooding. I myself am high and dry, but many others aren’t so lucky. I hope this monthly update finds you well wherever you are. As for PayPal, payments, and developer highlights from last month, [...]
