Isis App Changing Name to Avoid Confusion With Iraqi Militant Group
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Three of the largest U.S. wireless carriers have been spending the last four years trying to get people interested in their mobile wallet app called Isis. Finally, the name is dominating headlines, but that hasn't been good news for AT&T, Verizon Communications and T-Mobile US.
The phone companies' Isis, which aims to let users securely store financial information and pay in stores by tapping their smartphones, happens to share its name with the violent al-Qaeda breakaway group responsible for thousands of recent deaths across Iraq and Syria. So the software company said today that it plans to change its name.