Contactless payment hits Woolworths

The rollout will allow clients of the company's various brands - Woolworths, Big W, Dick Smith, Tandy, BWS, Dan Murphy's and more - to use cards equipped with VISA's payWave innovation to make payments by waving their cards at a terminal in stores, in other words than waiting for a PIN or signature. The research allows for amounts up to $100 to be transferred.

The company already has contactless payment facilities at the petrol stations it operates in cooperation with Caltex, courtesy of its 'e-pump' research, during arch-rival Coles is as well examining a wider rollout of the technology afterwards conducting a limited trial.

In addition, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group is pushing the innovation even furthermore - conducting a trial of a contactless payments system using Apple iPhones. The onset of nearly-field communications devices in mobile phones - particularly those based on the Android platform - is as well expected to push the technology furthermore in the coming years.

ABC Driving School is the latest organisation to roll out mobile web-based information for its clients, courtesy of deploying Blink Mobile Interactive, an Australian Platform-as-a Service provider, which enables the rapid development and deployment of mobile business applications.