OnePlus 3 review: This Chinese-made phone is one of the best non-exploding Android handset on the market October 12, 2016 If you can keep your head, wrote Mister Kipling, while all around you phones are literally catching fire and exploding, then you can pretty much claim the Android throne unimpeded, my son. The new OnePlus 3 is, for its price (and for prices a great deal higher too), one of the best non-exploding Android phones [...]
Brexit, WiFi and selfies: The top 10 phrases Britons will need to learn on holiday this year July 27, 2016 If you were hoping to escape conversations around the EU referendum on your summer holiday this year, tough luck. “What do you think about Brexit?” has been named by Gatwick Airport as one of the top 10 most important modern holiday phrases. And the airport is helping UK holidaymakers to ask the question in different languages. [...]
Barclays rules out Android Pay, going it alone with own mobile pay app May 12, 2016 Barclays is going it alone when it comes to mobile pay, rolling out its own contactless payment app on Android to all its customers, eschewing Google's own soon to launch Android Pay service. The bank's customers will be able to pay with just a swipe of their debit card from June with Barclays' Contactless Mobile [...]
How one simple tech trick saved HSBC customers millions August 22, 2016 It may be all about open banking APIs and blockchain in the geeky world of fintech right now, but banking giant HSBC used one incredibly simple piece of technology that's been around for years to save its customers millions of pounds. The humble text message, first devised in 1984 with the first message making its [...]
The UK has just experienced the highest jump in card fraud in Europe. Here’s why August 4, 2016 Card fraud is regarded as an unpleasant fact of life by many – but it turns out things are looking worse in the UK than anywhere else in Europe. According to research by software analytics firm Fico, the UK experienced an 18 per cent jump in card fraud losses in 2015 – the highest of any [...]
Google’s Apple Pay rival Android Pay is finally here in the UK May 18, 2016 Good news for anyone eager to pay using just the swipe of their mobile, but who doesn't own an iPhone. Google's Android Pay is launching in the UK today, bringing the tap and pay technology to millions of smartphone users across the country. A rival to Apple Pay which launched last year, the app lets users pay by [...]
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announces new bus ‘Hopper’ ticket will launch next Monday 12 September September 5, 2016 London commuters will get more bang for their bus tickets from next Monday onwards, when the new 'hopper' bus fare system is launched. From Monday 12 September, passengers will be able to change onto another bus or tram for free within one hour of touching in at the start of their journey. It will be automatically given [...]
Olympic visitors urged to be extra vigilant in fight against credit card fraud August 1, 2016 Fraudsters in Brazil are poised to exploit the influx of international visitors for the Olympics a survey revealed today. With half a million visitors expected for the Olympics, research by ACI Worldwide indicated that 49 per cent of Brazilians have experienced some kind of credit or debit card fraud in the last five years, second globally [...]
London’s black taxis will accept credit or debit card and contactless payments by October 2016 – but minimum fares will rise by 20p to pay for it November 26, 2015 All black cabs will accept cards and contactless payments from October 2016, after plans for the industry to move with the times by accepting new ways to pay gained overwhelming support from the public. However, the minimum fare of £2.40 will rise across the board by 20p to accommodate the costs of using the new technology. Credit card [...]
Happy first birthday: Contactless cards have been on the Tube for a year September 17, 2015 They may account for 20 per cent of all pay-as-you-go journeys now, but contactless payments on the Tube were introduced just one year ago today. Over 180 million journeys have been made with contactless cards, more than 625,000 a day. A whopping one in seven of all contactless card payments in the UK are made [...]