Google creates online payment system

Google is developing infrastructure to host a one-click payment system for online news content, reports Big Mouth Media.

The payment system would allow users a range of payment options to access news from various publishers, including micro-payments and long-term subscriptions.

Google has made no secret of its plans to charge for news content in the future, outlining its intentions in September for a micro-payments system that's expected to work in a similar way to Google Checkout.

PayPal is collaborating with Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority, a national government agency, states Auction Bytes.

PayPal's mobile payment platform will power the mobile commerce infrastructure of Singapore's Digital Concierge programme.

The company says it expects to see hundreds of mobile services and apps powered by PayPal in Singapore over the next few years, and pointed to Singaporean shopping site Reebonz, which has developed an iPhone app.

GE's healthcare division has revealed an electronic medical record product in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform aimed at small or remote physician practices, says Business Week.

GE says the SaaS offering differs from a traditional hosted or application service provider model in that customers are charged a monthly subscription fee.

The solution, Centricity Advance, offers a patient self-service portal that allows patients to access their personal medical records through their own secure password in order to schedule appointments; request prescription refills; or access billing statements, lab results and private messages from their clinicians.