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Mobile Payments Vs. Mobile POS Payments Race Is On! – A SPN Exclusive Article

Can Anyone Catch Square With Their $4 Billion + a Month Head Start? The answer probably lies somewhere between PayPal and another mobile POS payment solution. If you’re the owner or manager of a small to medium sized business, a key part of our national economic engine, then you recognize the importance of mobile and using today’s technology; and you want to utilize it and capitalize on the opportunity that it presents, however you’re not quite clear on a few things. You’ve tried PayPal sometime back and you were astonished at what you found out. In order to use PayPal you must first accept their terms of service. By doing so, you in effect waive your rights to credit card consumer protection laws and you acknowledge that you cannot issue a chargeback for unauthorized use of your credit card and PayPal account. If you do, they have the right to limit your account.

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How To Use Mobile Marketing To Improve Your Business

Did you know that over 91 % of people in the country have a mobile device? Twenty percent of these people, which consists of more than 50 million people, have an internet-capable “smart phone?” These smart phones are iPhones, Androids and Blackberry phones. There are more than 150 billion mobile text messages that are being sent every month by these mobile devices and a rather amazing ninety percent are being read within one hour of being sent. Now that you know how many people have smart phones and how many people are sending and reading text messages, just envision how a mobile marketing plan could grow your business. Mobile advertising is a perfect way of getting your message to your target audience.

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Apple Store Mobile POS Payment Technology Gaining Momentum – A SPN Exclusive Article

Businesses Large and Small Clamoring for New Technology The advent of mobile technology and the iPad in particular, along with other tablets, have ushered in an era of innovative solutions in the retail space that is revolutionizing how people shop, buy, sell and even communicate. Innovative mobile solution developers such as ABC Mobile Pay are helping to blaze the trail by providing a robust mobile POS payment solution that enables merchants of any size from large national chain stores to small ‘mom-and-pop’ stores to capture payments on iPads, iPods, iPhones, Windows devices (Android devices by summer’s end) and almost any other mobile device. What is exciting to both large Level 1 national merchants, with yearly transaction volumes of over the 20 million mark, and to small ‘mom-and-pop’ stores that process under a million transactions a year, is that they can utilize this technology to increase sales and profits by employing POS features traditionally found only in large national chain stores, the cost of such systems being so high that most smaller merchants can’t even consider their use. Although large national merchants such as Apple, have already begun using the technology in their national retail stores, others like Sketchers are rumored to be rolling out an in-store mobile POS payment solution by the end of the year.

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Just Like in a James Bond Film – A SPN Exclusive Article

In late 2008, electronic payment service RBS World Pay revealed that a gang of hackers had broken into its computer systems, stolen information to help them create cloned debit cards, boosted their withdrawal limits and stolen huge amounts of money from ATMs around the world. Mules operated by the gang stole a total of $9 million from more than 2,100 ATMs in at least 280 cities worldwide. All it took them was a jaw-dropping 12 hours to pull off their coordinated heist. Some were wearing disguises with wigs and facial hair altering their appearance. They dressed nicely while others dressed shabbily, creeping around trying to go unnoticed. Mostly they were brazen, boldly executing the crime as if nothing out of the ordinary was happening. A key member of the cybercriminal gang arrested for the crime wasn’t your typical low-profile underworld gangster. Among other things, he purchased a luxury car and two apartments in the Russian city of Novosibirsk before being caught in 2009. At the time of the robbery, acting United States Attorney, Sally Quillian Yates, said that it was “perhaps the most sophisticated and organized computer fraud attack ever perpetrated.” The criminal gang is alleged to have created counterfeit cloned debit cards with the stolen information, but they didn’t stop there.

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