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Google urges all devs to update their Play services SDK to 8.1 to avoid any potential issues. The slow roll out of Apple Pay, which is available in just one other country one year after its U.S. launch, highlights the challenges mobile payments services face when trying to secure agreements with local banking partners. The former Softcard mobile payments system ended on 31 March, with Google Wallet officially taking over from then onwards. Apple Pay is also accepted at over 220,000 merchant locations. However, Google has a competitive edge in the space since it allows to send money to anyone in the USA using only an email address; the person doesn’t even need to use the Wallet service himself/herself.

It is also a slightly more comprehensive take on the Notes app so if you’d like a bit more functionality, Google Keep is a free app and can be downloaded via the iTunes App Store.

As of Tuesday September 22, you can employ the block sender function to permanently bar them from your Gmail account. For everyone else, just wait for it to come to you! Google has been trying hard to overcome the barrier between Google Wallet users and those who do not use the service. Google has not announced live streaming capabilities using the iOS version of the app, but it did so with Android.

Google Wallet has been around for a while but it lagged behind others like Square Pay and Venmo.

Two of the important app for Android platform, Gmail and Google Play Music got update from Google this week that will have you listening easily to your songs and soon preparing better formatted Gmail messages. But with Android Pay, all your card information is tokenized by banks and the token info is passed to the merchant when you tap to pay.

Once your cards have been entered into the app, whenever you are in a store with an NFC terminal, you can simply unlock your phone and place it near the terminal to complete a payment. However, the ability to send money to anyone through Google Wallet is steadily raising Google’s competitive advantage. Furthermore the app allows users to set up low balance alerts so that they won’t be unpleasantly surprised by the amount of money on their account.