The day has finally arrived. It’s been a mad dash for Samsung and HTC ever since their near simultaneous announcements at MWC this year, but the HTC One M9… Source: http://www.androidpolice.com

Mountain View offers a fair square of 4G chocolate to the standard Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk

Congress returns to session this week, and several issues are on the table that impact the tech world, specifically Austin tech. Source: agbeat.com

Mobile wallets are electronic accounts that enable people to manage their bank accounts through their cell phones. Their working is based on the NFC technology. They are considered a revolutionary trend in the Digital Payments industry. Source: http://www.whatech.com

Some 185m Europeans will use a mobile payment app in 2015, up 51% on the previous year, an ING survey of more than 14,000 consumers has revealed Source: http://www.nfcworld.com

-*+American Express is testing facial recognition technology to authenticate mobile payments. as part of a wider effort to adapt its services to wearable technology. Source: http://www.netimperative.com

Ottawa has updated the code of conduct governing credit and debit card transactions, including adding new rules relating to mobile payments. Source: http://www.cbc.ca

Marketers are constantly looking into the future, trying to predict the next big trend, be it for their brands or their clients. Naturally, marketers are preoccupied with questions like: What is the next big campaign? Source: http://www.forbes.com

Microsoft is presenting a vision of how industrial robots could work more closely with people by harnessing IoT (Internet of Things), cloud networking and 3D sensing technologies, linked through Windows platforms. Source: http://www.channelworld.in

Finextra: Up to 185 million European consumers are expected to use mobile payment apps over the next 12 months, according to an ING survey of more than 14,000 individuals worldwide. Source: http://www.finextra.com