Payments
April 23rd, 2012
Azeris fancy paying by mobile
As Azerbaijan moves towards non-cash payment from its current predominantly cash-based economy, some 86% of residents of capital city Baku say they would like to carry out contactless payments with their phones. Abc.az reports that research conducted... More
April 20th, 2012
Motorola eyes NFC finger locks
Motorola is to use fingerprint biometrics in future NFC handsets to eliminate PIN locks on mobile wallets. The Google-owned phone maker, which already builds handsets with built-in finger scanners, told Brief Mobile of the move... More
April 19th, 2012
Barclaycard expands Quick Tap NFC service and offers PayTag stickers to Visa credit card holders
The UK-based financial institution has announced two enhancements to its mobile payments offering, increasing the reach of the Quick Tap NFC service it runs with Orange and announcing plans to provide all its Visa credit card customers with a free mobile contactless sticker. More
April 19th, 2012
Microsoft wallet on its way?
Microsoft is planning a mobile wallet for Windows Phone 8, according to an unsourced report in The Verge. The wallet service will be provided by Microsoft and is expected to be branded by carrier partners. More
April 17th, 2012
PagSeguro to launch NFC P2P payments in Brazil
The online payments provider has partnered with Nokia to introduce an NFC service that allows users to transfer money and to make payments in bars, restaurants and stores. More
April 16th, 2012
Serbia gets NFC pilot
Serbian mobile network operator Telekom Srbija has begun an NFC payments pilot in cooperation with Banca Intesa. Pilot participants are using BlackBerry Bold 9900 NFC phones with a MasterCard PayPass application stored on the SIM. More
April 16th, 2012
Sequent joins GlobalPlatform
NFC secure element management specialist Sequent Software has joined standards body GlobalPlatform as an observer member. "GlobalPlatform specifications are at the centre of interoperability for the secure contactless services market, and that is where Sequent plays a... More
April 16th, 2012
UK gets NFC parking service
The British town of Tunbridge Wells has become the first in the UK to allow drivers to pay for their parking with an NFC mobile phone. For the service, stickers containing NFC tags have been... More
April 16th, 2012
European regulators put brakes on UK NFC joint venture
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into the planned NFC joint venture between Everything Everywhere, Telefónica and Vodafone UK which will delay launch until after the London Olympics and casts doubts over the timetable for the introduction of similar projects in a number of other European countries. More
April 11th, 2012
Hands on: The Lumia 610, Nokia’s first Windows NFC phone
Nokia has unveiled an NFC version of its Lumia 610 Windows Phone at the Wima show in Monaco, announced that Orange will be the first operator to stock it from the middle of this year — and reconfirmed its commitment to include NFC "right across our portfolio". More
April 4th, 2012
University gets NFC canteen
Pennsylvania's Shippensburg University is testing payments via contactless stickers in two of its cafeterias. Students order food from an NFC-enabled kiosk, then receive confirmation via a text message before they pick up their order. Some... More
April 4th, 2012
Sony scans dabs with screens
Phone maker Sony has applied for a patent which could see fingerprint sensors and cameras built into mobile phone screens. "Many technology analysts predict that mobile phones fitted with near field communication (NFC) technology will be... More
April 4th, 2012
Grenoble builds NFC system
Grenoble is to get a local NFC payments system, reports 20minutes.fr. The French city is sinking €1.3m into Mobi'Alpes, which will allow citizens and visitors with NFC phones to pay tram fares, follow tourist trails and... More
April 3rd, 2012
Google buys payments firm
Google has acquired platform-as-a-service (PaaS) electronic payments technology provider TxVia. Osama Bedier, Google's VP of Wallet and Payments, announced the deal on the Google Commerce blog. More
April 3rd, 2012
UL acquires Collis
NFC and secure transaction testing and advisory firm Collis has been acquired by UL, a safety science company with 9,000 employees in more than 100 countries. "The addition positions UL as the world's first global provider of... More
April 3rd, 2012
Wallet engineer heads to Square
Rob von Behren, a co-founder of Google Wallet, has left the search giant to join Square as a "hyperspatial payments pioneer". Fellow co-founder Jonathan Wall and product lead Marc Freed-Finnegan left Google in March to... More
April 2nd, 2012
New Zealand carriers to form NFC venture with payments provider
Vodafone, 2degrees and Telecom New Zealand have partnered with the operator of the country's debit card and ATM networks to introduce a central TSM platform that will allow the carriers to "continue to compete vigorously for customers by developing their own innovative services on top of the open platform infrastructure provided by the TSM". More
March 26th, 2012
Maxis to launch iPhone NFC payments in Malaysia
Malaysian mobile network operator Maxis is to enable iPhone users to take part in its FastTap NFC payments service "soon", using an add-on NFC case. Maxis FastTap, launched in April 2009, was the world's first commercial... More
March 26th, 2012
2012 NFC Global Competition finalists announced
The NFC Forum and Wima have announced the finalists for their jointly-run Tap Into Innovation: NFC Global Competition 2012. This year's competition attracted three times as many entries as the previous contest in 2010, the organisers... More
March 26th, 2012
Vivotech completes new funding round
Vivotech has completed a Series D funding round, bringing the total the NFC and contactless specialist has raised to date to US$96m. New sales figures for the company's POS terminal business have also been released.... More
