Articles on Visa

Visa's charge card concept goes wireless - Sep 26, 2008

Crave Visa is adding a wireless twist to the old phrase "Charge It." The credit card processing giant announced Thursday several initiatives to allow its credit card toting customers the ability to ... Read story »

Peace of mind for Japanese online gamers? - Jan 28, 2009

Blogs Japanese online gamers can now do safer transactions, thanks to a partnership by Visa International and Japan Online Game Association (JOGA). Visa and JOGA recently announced plans today to implement Japan's first ... Read story »

A credit card in your mobile phone - Apr 1, 2009

Crave SINGAPORE--Some 300 Citi M1 Platinum Visa cardholders will be on a three-month NFC mobile payment trial beginning May in Singapore. NFC, or Near Field Communication, is a standard that enables ... Read story »

Palm developer program coming in December - Oct 7, 2009

Crave Palm said Tuesday that its webOS developer program will be open in December with "an unparalleled level of transparency" in a not-so-subtle dig at Apple. The company, which is playing catch-up ... Read story »

The new rival to Octopus Card--the Hang Seng enJoy Card - Dec 27, 2007

Blogs Last month, the Hang Seng Bank, Jardine Matheson and Visa jointly announced the launch of a co-branded credit card--the Hang Seng enJoy Card--the first credit card in Hong Kong to utilize ... Read story »

The high and low of Halo 3 Legendary Edition - Oct 29, 2007

Crave Yes, we know this highly anticipated Xbox 360 game was launched recently in Asia, but how about the Halo 3 Legendary Edition? This US$129.99 package has the software bundled with an ... Read story »

Chinese Netizens struggling to access free VPNs - Nov 8, 2009

Blogs A lot of Chinese Netizens, missing the Web sites that have been blocked during 2009--and remain blocked right now--such as YouTube, Facebook and Blogspot blogs, have been scrambling to find free ... Read story »

[Update]Apple iPhone 3GS has landed in Korea and sells well but there's more to it. - Dec 6, 2009

Blogs KT, Korea's second largest mobile carrier screams with release of Apple iPhone 3GS. Many of you just heard or read that its sales is going very well here in Korea but, ... Read story »

Owning a Taobao.com shop: A new national hobby - Sep 14, 2009

Blogs eBay brands itself as "The World's Online Marketplace", but one big chunk of the world map that it has embarrassingly failed to conquer is China. Taobao.com, the Chinese consumer e-commerce site, ... Read story »

SmartSwipe: Ensuring a safe online shopping experience - Jul 15, 2009

Crave One of the most dangerous things about shopping online is the fact that you have to enter your credit card information. This is when malicious software like Keylogger can steal ... Read story »

Nokia, Visa turn phones into digital wallets - Jan 12, 2007

Crave Credit card giant Visa and Finnish mobile maker Nokia have signed a deal to launch a worldwide system that will turn mobile phones into digital wallets for making electronic payment. All ... Read story »

Auto-Gate for Brunei Airport - Jan 2, 2009

Blogs Earlier this week, a pair of automatic entry systems, Auto-Gates, began operation in Brunei International Airport. For travelers carrying biometric passports, visiting Brunei is now as easy as walking through a ... Read story »

Thank god for Chinese Internet video! - Aug 23, 2007

Blogs Because Chinese TV is so damn boring! If the only Chinese artists you were exposed to were the ones who were regularly on television, you'd be sorely missing out. Thankfully, there ... Read story »

The change we need - Sep 1, 2008

Blogs I wish there was a human rights activist or an organization that could defend the rights of Iranians as Netizens. There should be some sort of human digital rights declaration and ... Read story »

American Visa credit cardholders, you may be innocent fraudsters! - Oct 3, 2006

Blogs American holders of Visa credit cards are being subject to intense security protocol in order to eliminate fraud in Southeast Asia, even in Hong Kong, confirmed a Chase Manhattan credit card ... Read story »

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