Archive for September 2009

AEPM, the Association Européenne Payez Mobile, has updated the technical specifications for Payez Mobile, the NFC solution developed by the leading French banks and mobile operators that has been on test in the French towns... More

Mobile operator Etisalat has received regulatory approval to launch a new mobile payments service in the United Arab Emirates. "The telecom operator will now be able to roll out its previously announced mobile wallet account... More

American Express has become the latest Full Member of GlobalPlatform, the international smart card specifications body whose technical specifications for cards, devices and systems are used in more than 300 million smart cards and two... More

Chinese handset manufacturer Yulong Computer Telecommunication Scientific is to launch "a dual-module NFC mobile phone at the end of this year", according to a report in the SinoCast Daily Business Beat (via TMCnet). The company... More

Proximity and NFC specialist MobiNear has signed a technology partnership agreement with Inside Contactless. The deal will see Inside's NFC reader modules being added to MobiNear's kiosk solution, enabling consumers to use their contactless transportation... More

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has announced plans to enable passengers to use contactless debit or credit cards to pay for bus and subway fares by 2014. The move follows several years of contactless... More

Taggo, founded by loyalty expert Aneace Haddad, has signed up its first value added reseller, leading international customer loyalty solutions provider Memberson. Originally founded in Sweden, Memberson is now based in Singapore and boasts Ikea... More

LeBook, the annually published bible for the creative industries, is using Augmented Print to keep printing costs down whilst enabling contributors to maximise the amount of information about themselves they can provide. For the 2010... More

The 'Electronic Transaction Card' patent covers the use of a memory card as an electronic wallet and the ability to use that memory card for the secure transmission of financial information.  More

The Ergosum consortium of French retailers and operators has published its specifications and two use cases, for both traditional points of sale and self-checkout scenarios, ahead of planned large-scale testing of NFC in the French... More

OPINION: In most countries, the maximum transaction limit for a contactless payment is set low enough that only small items such as cups of coffee and bus tickets can be purchased. That may not, however, be what consumers want — and it could be leading to the potential revenues from NFC payments being seriously underestimated. More

All the latest news from around the NFC ecosystem including a new Toshiba NFC phone now under development, Telecom Italia's new mobile commerce service, Visa Australia increases contactless transaction limit, Twinlinx and Windows Mobile, Montreal's new contactless ticketing system, MoLo Rewards' NFC coupon and loyalty solution and more...  More

I've had my eyes firmly fixed on the Far East for the last few weeks, in a bid to understand the technologies and business drivers behind a range of non-NFC standard mobile contactless payments systems that are successfully serving millions of people in Korea, Japan and, on a smaller scale, elsewhere. More

The NFC specialist's VivoNFC over-the-air provisioning system is now available for Sun's Solaris 10 operating system, following demand from clients planning mass market NFC deployments, says Vivotech's CEO. More

There are three new vacancies on the NFC Jobs Board this week. Two are at Vivotech in California for a Manager, Sales Operations and a Software Engineer and the other is at Touchatag in Belgium, for a Contactless RFID Expert.  More

From next year, Telecom Italia subscribers will be able to use a new generation of SIM card to purchase train and bus tickets, parking, theatre seats, concert tickets and hotel rooms from their mobile phone.... More

Twinlinx reports that its MyMax NFC sticker is now running with the new generation of Windows Mobile 6.5 phones due to be released on October 6, and on earlier Windows Mobile 6.1 phones, following cooperation... More

STM, the Societè de Transport de Montreal, has appointed Oberthur Technologies to supply contactless cards for use throughout the Montreal region's public transport network, including buses, the subway and commuter trains throughout the Greater Montreal... More

The new phone will be based on Toshiba's TG01 Windows Mobile handset. It will use NXP's PN544 NFC controller and will be compliant with the Single Wire Protocol standard. It will be produced in test... More

GuestLogix, the market leader in the supply of onboard retail solutions to airlines, is adding contactless payments acceptance to its point-of-service handheld devices and its retail transaction platform. "The company's move to contactless and near... More