Archive for January 2010

Executives from Visa Europe are meeting with Irish banks in Dublin this week with a view to launching commercial NFC services in Ireland, according to a report in the Irish Examiner: Mobile phones will soon... More

OPINION: It has become received wisdom in NFC circles that Japan and Korea, where mobile contactless services were successful established by one lead player, are unique and can't be repeated elsewhere. More

Since April 2009 the payments network has been running an internal pilot designed to find out how US consumers would respond to the introduction of mobile contactless stickers — with some surprising results. More

Inside Contactless has formed a partnership with TazTag, supplier of the TazCard NFC wallet, to develop and bring to market a variety of highly secured, multi-application contactless solutions based on near field communication technology. TazCard... More

The move to contactless cards and NFC-compatible point-of-sale terminals is gathering pace with banks in Italy and Poland announcing plans for widespread contactless card deployments this year. More

Carl Atsushi Hirano, the driving force behind the introduction five years ago of Japan's Osaïfu Keitai mobile wallet service, has set out his thinking on what was required to make the service a success and what it will take to successfully introduce NFC services in other countries. More

An in-depth survey of 246 US smartphone users conducted by wireless industry research specialists Data Innovation has found that nearly two-thirds are interested in adding mobile wallet functionality to their phones. Only 10% stated they... More

Blaze Mobile, the US mobile banking and mobile wallet services provider, has revealed that its active users are now accessing their Blaze Mobile Wallets an average of nine times a day. The Blaze Mobile Wallet... More

Vivotech has introduced a new range of contactless POS terminals that come with a built in ability to delivery mobile marketing and promotional programmes as well as prepaid and gift card acceptance and support for... More

The NFC Forum is hosting a webcast at 8am EST on 20 January to provide potential entrants in its annual global competition with tips on what the judges are looking for. Previous competition prize winner... More

Banks and mobile network operators are set to go head to head in a bid to control the market for NFC mobile payments services, according to a new research report published today. "NFC mobile phones... More

The British bank and the mobile network operator have launched a co-branded credit card, described as "the next step in the partnership between Orange and Barclaycard to deliver contactless mobile payments."  More