Verizon says not blocking Google Wallet

Verizon Wireless said it was not blocking Google Inc's payments app, Google Wallet, on its latest smartphone, and said it was still in talks with Google about the service.

Verizon said that because Google Wallet did "not simply access the operating system and basic hardware of our phones like thousands of other applications," the service "needs to be integrated into a new, secure and proprietary hardware element in our phones." [But, of course] Verizon was in continuing talks with Google about the application, the spokesman said.