Rogers and CIBC to launch Canadian mobile payment solution today

CIBC and Rogers Communications are gearing up to launch Canada's first joint mobile payment solution, allowing Canadians to pay with their CIBC credit card at the checkout counter using their Rogers "Near Field Communications" (NFC) enabled smartphone. Customers will be able to use this payment capability at merchants across Canada where contactless credit card payments are accepted. The service launches today with Olympian Simon Whitfield.

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Breaking News: Mobilicity Launches handsets and plans for GTA

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Mobilicity or the-carrier-formerly-known-as-Dave Wireless, is opening its lines for business in Toronto. Unveiled during a press event in Scarborough today inside one of its standalone kiosks, Canada's 7th, and apparently most ambitious new GSM cell and data carrier will begin operations tomorrow.

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PayPal pushing mobile payment solutions

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

PayPal has gone beyond catering to e-tailers and eBay traders and has managed to cap 2009 by introducing ways to pay via Twitter, smartphones and has provided the payment backbone for BlackBerry’s new App World store.

We interviewed Darrell Macmullin, PayPal Canada’s general manager who gamely demoed some of PayPal’s new directions and discussed the companies’ recently released open-source developer platform.

“There’s a whole new suite of payment APIs for developers to create and embed PayPal in applications. The first companies to sign up for these new APIs were Twitter and Research in Motion,” Darrell explained.

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