My Way News - Tech giants offer ideas on charging readers online
My Way News reports: "Google proposed offering news organizations a version of its Google Checkout system, which is used for processing online payments. It would give readers a place to sign in to an account and then pay for media from a variety of sources without having to punch in their information over and over. And the company says it could offer publishers a variety of pay methods, from basic subscriptions to so-called 'micropayments' on a per-article basis."

Comment: That's not mobile-commerce, you say? Well, the web is mobile, so any payment scheme on the web that you can access on your smart phone is similarly mobile. If payments can be made online with a single login and you have a mobile device with you, a mobile device that can combine GPS data, RFID product data and transmit payment data to the ubiquitous Google, then we have an instant global payment system without the hassle of funding any new infrastructure.