Yesterday, during a developer conference at Mobile World Congress, Samsung announced their new Wallet app. The new app, is strikingly similar in functionality to Apple’s own Passbook, which was announced with iOS 6. Samsung’s Wallet lets you store your event tickets, boarding passes, cards, coupons etc. Even the app icon looks closely similar to the [...]

About a week ago we showed you how to hide stock iOS applications on non-Jailbroken devices. The process essentially involved navigating to the developers website and installing a package that allows you to temporally delete a stock iOS app. Now a new variation of this hack has surfaced that makes it easier to access the packages [...]

PassBook has been publicly available since iOS 6 was released on September 19th, two days in advance of the iPhone 5. Considering that the software has been available for almost an entire month, you’d think that Apple, the company behind the new payment standard, would have support for their digital pass and payment system in [...]

It was just yesterday that I met up with someone for coffee at Starbucks and thought to myself “I wish I could use a Starbucks Passbook for this purchase.” Sure enough, as if my wish was fulfilled, later that evening Starbucks actually released an update to the Canadian Starbucks app that brought about iOS 6 [...]

According to MarketWatch, the physical ticket stub may be an endangered species. The article hints that Major League Baseball will be phasing out tickets in 2013, thanks to apps, emails, texts, and digital ticket services like Passbook. The trend may be due in part to demand for all-digital tickets from fans, but such services offer [...]

Earlier today we announced that the Starbucks app was updated with iOS 6 and Passbook support. A lot of coffee drinkers who own iPhones were quick to download the update (like myself) to test out the new Passbook integration. Unfortunately however, this Passbook support is only for those who live in the United States. Those [...]

The Starbucks app from the Starbucks Coffee company was updated yesterday to take advantage of iOS 6 and the new Passbook feature. The new version of the app contains an export to Passbook option, allowing for customers quickly pay for their coffees with a scannable bar code tied to your Starbucks card. Account creation was [...]

Here I was thinking that Passbook was Apple playing catchup to Google’s Wallet app. The fact is Apple created a new standard complete with the PKPass file format. The event tickets, boarding passes, and store cards contained within that file are not supported by Android out of the box. Luckily, Android developers Attido Mobile have [...]

Over the weekend, enterprise app makers iOptimal put together a video showing how Apple’s new Passbook service might work. It demonstrates what might be possible with the app during a day out shopping. It outline the way coupons, loyalty cards, and other features of Passbook might work in a real-world situation. Of course, the app [...]

Apple has just won 23 new patents, which were released from the US Patent and Trademark Office today. Among them is a fairly major patent, regarding future use of Near Field Communications (NFC). For those who haven’t heard of it, NFC is the technology behind iOS 6′s new Passbook app, which lets you use your phone [...]