Mobile Payments For Everyone! Barclays Pushes Future Tech Into Now

Barclays bank, which already intertwines NFC chips and antennas into its banking cards in the UK, has just taken a page out of Apple's book and released a new mobile app that should shake up the UK financial game.

Pingit is a smartphone app that lets anyone with a Barclays account and a cell phone send out and receive cash without having to swap long, complex bank numbers (which you'd probably want to protect under most circumstances anyway)--all you need is a phone number or a name. Think of it as the smart, secure, 21st Century way to lend your pal ten quid for a pint after work--and probably pay for a lot more things too.