Cette vidéo vous montre comment un client paie son repas en utilisant son téléphone mobile à La perla, restaurant acceptant les paiements TagPay (www.tagpay.fr). Tous les téléphones mobiles peuvent payer avec TagPay sans aucune modification ni installation de logiciel particulier.

This video shows how TagPay can be used to buy on the web. Any Merchant’s WebSite can include a new payment button allowing customer to pay securely in one click with TagPay. The customer enters his mobile phone number, his TagPay password and is authenticated by VSA; his phone rings, picks-up and just brings the phone next to his PC. That’s it! It’s extremely secure and easy.

This video is shot at La Perla, a restaurant at 26, Rue François Miron in Paris that accepts TagPay mobile payment. In this video, a customer uses his mobile phone to pay for his lunch. The mobile payment is made as follows: First, the waiter enters the amount due in the mobile payment terminal. Then, the customer enters his mobile phone number on the terminal. The TagPay service calls the customer. When he answers the call, a transaction one time audio password is sent to the terminal. The customer dips his phone in the terminal to hear this sound. In less than 3 seconds, the transaction is complete and a confirmation SMS is sent to the customer’s phone. TagPay makes mobile payment quick and simple with any mobile phone.

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) said that the suspension was due to the failure of ongoing attempts since 2007 to bring BlackBerry services in the country in line with local regulations.

“With no solution available and in the public interest, in order to affect resolution of this issue, as of October 11, 2010, Blackberry Messenger, Blackberry Email and Blackberry Web-browsing services will be suspended until an acceptable solution can be developed and applied,” said TRA director general Mohamed Al Ghanim.

“The TRA notes that Blackberry appears to be compliant in similar regulatory environments of other countries, which makes non-compliance in the UAE both disappointing and of great concern.”

BlackBerry devices, introduced in the UAE in 2006, allow users to send messages that can’t be monitored as allowed for under the country’s 2007 Safety, Emergency and National Security rules, the regulator said last week.

Although such communications should fall under the remit of that law, technical encryption allowed them to avoid monitoring, it said Sunday.

Telcos Etisalat and du were informed of the TRA’s decision on Sunday. They were also instructed to ensure minimal consumer disruption in the provision of alternative services.

“All Blackberry services fall within the UAE regulatory framework developed by the TRA since 2007, however because of Blackberry’s technical configuration, some Blackberry services operate beyond the enforcement of these regulations,” said a statement issued by the TRA.

“Blackberry data is immediately exported off-shore, where it is managed by a foreign, commercial organization. Blackberry data services are currently the only data services operating in the UAE where this is the case.

“Today’s decision is based on the fact that, in their current form, certain Blackberry services allow users to act without any legal accountability, causing judicial, social and national security concerns for the UAE.”

Source Courtesy: Ed Attwood | arabianbusiness.com

Tagattitude’s NSDT technology allows secured user authentication. It’s so secured and simple that users can get money from an ATM manchine !

You can now conduct your remittance transactions and send money through wire transfer, a.k.a. funds transfer right from your desk – or even from the beach.

So how does one pay the remittance company?

The payment is made online directly from your bank account or card.

Presently online money transfer services are available for customers in UAE. Prosum shall soon be enabling the services from more GCC countries.

Sending money for international money transfers was never so easy. Stop wondering how to transfer money, how to send money for international money transfer and how to find money transfer services. Instant access for international remittance through online money transfers now is a breeze when you use Prosum’s online services, the best way to send money be it for international bank transfer or instant money transfer.

The remittance back-end processes are conducted by Prosum’s partners that are reputed and well established money transfer companies a.k.a. exchange houses and are adept at sending money overseas including to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Philippines, GCC countries, USA, UK, Europe, Africa etc. These remittance companies are formally registered and operational under the regulatory guidelines of Central Bank of UAE.

With best foreign exchange rates and very attractive charges you will find Prosum’s online money transfer channel as the cheapest way to send money and surely the best money transfer method in Abu Dhabi / Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Experience the arm-chair comfort for online money transfer and send money online anytime, anywhere.

The Global Information Technology Report 2009-2010 ranks the UAE as the 23rd best country out of 133 survey on how it uses information technology to create a “more economically, environmentally and socially sustainable world in the aftermath of one of the most serious economic crises in decades”.

Globally, Sweden came out on top, followed by Singapore and Denmark.

In the Gulf region, the UAE was placed six places above Bahrain, which edged Qatar into 29th place.

Saudi Arabia was ranked at number 38 while Oman was rated the 50th most ICT prepared country. Kuwait was the lowest ranked GCC nation at number 76.

Bahrain was the highest climber of the Gulf nations in this year’s rankings and over a three year period, having gained 21 places since 2006.

Kamal Ahmed, chief operating officer of the Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB), said the kingdom’s rise reflected a commitment to ICT as both a sector in its own right and an enabler of continued economic growth, modernisation and competitiveness.

“Sweden, Singapore and Denmark’s superior capacity to leverage ICT as an enabler of sustainable, long-term economic growth is built on similar premises, relating with a long-standing focus placed by governments and private sectors alike on education, innovation and ICT access and diffusion,” said Irene Mia, senior economist of the Global Competitiveness Network at the World Economic Forum and co-editor of the report.

“The success of these countries underlines the importance of a joint ICT vision, an implementation, by all the different stakeholders in a society for a country to take full advantage of ICT advances in its daily life and overall competitiveness strategy.”

Courtesy: arabianbusiness.com/584653-uae-is-gulfs-most-ict-prepared-country—world-eco-forum as posted by Andy Sambidge on Saturday, 27 March 2010

The following statistics present an actual scenario on how well online services are catching up in United Arab Emirates.

A total of AED 1.5 billion was collected from 1.4 million transactions in 2009 using Dubai eGovernment’s electronic payment gateway (DEG EPG).

By comparison, AED 1 billion was collected from around 1 million transactions in 2008.

Interestingly, the number of departments adopting EPG remained 22 in 2008 as well as 2009.

What about mobile payments? Is there an adaptation for such services in UAE?

Statistics show that AED 1.5 million was collected in 2009 from 8,380 transactions.

Comparitively, only AED 250,000 was collected in 2008 from a mere 298 transactions.

Source: e4all – the official magazine of DEG; Issue 77; March 2010