Google Mobile Payment Service In The Works?

BusinessWeek:

Google (GOOG) is considering building a payment and advertising service that would let users buy milk and bread by tapping or waving their mobile phones against a register at checkout, two people familiar with the plans say.

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Comments

[dmezz1962]

09:41 AM on 01/07/2011

Ok this idea has been around since the 80's. I think these companies just need to hear themselves speak and they just regurgitate ideas that have been around forever

This idea originally was a scanner built into the shopping cart and whenever you put something into you cart it scans it and you can just pay at checkout....That was over 20 years ago and I still haven't seen it yet

[rongway1]

07:27 PM on 01/05/2011

this technology is common in japan for several years now.

[EcnelisDoogod]

02:18 PM on 01/04/2011

I like paper trails myself. This is why the Diebold voting machines were rejected in California, and why their use in deep south brought such controversial upsets. I hope others see the dangers of total electronic forgery as well.