NFC World » Barclaycard http://www.nfcworld.com The near field communication news source - NFC, contactless, mobile payments, RF SIM, RFID and more Wed, 23 May 2012 19:10:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Wireless goes contactless http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/05/16/315742/wireless-goes-contactless/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/05/16/315742/wireless-goes-contactless/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 15:00:48 +0000 Mike Clark http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=15742 Pop fans will be able to leave their wallets at home during a three day music festival in London in July. All vendors at the Barclaycard-sponsored Wireless Festival will accept contactless payments, including NFC-based Quick...

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/05/16/315742/wireless-goes-contactless/feed/ 0 Barclaycard expands Quick Tap NFC service and offers PayTag stickers to Visa credit card holders http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/04/19/315174/barclaycard-expands-quick-tap-nfc-service-and-offers-paytag-stickers-to-visa-credit-card-holders/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/04/19/315174/barclaycard-expands-quick-tap-nfc-service-and-offers-paytag-stickers-to-visa-credit-card-holders/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:16:51 +0000 Sarah Clark http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=15174 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.

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/04/19/315174/barclaycard-expands-quick-tap-nfc-service-and-offers-paytag-stickers-to-visa-credit-card-holders/feed/ 2 2012 NFC Global Competition finalists announced http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/03/26/314810/2012-nfc-global-competition-finalists-announced/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/03/26/314810/2012-nfc-global-competition-finalists-announced/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:22:35 +0000 Sarah Clark http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=14810 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...

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/02/24/313725/orange-uk-announces-quick-tap-treats-for-200000-nfc-customers/feed/ 0 NFC Forum adds 29 new members http://www.nfcworld.com/2011/10/12/310640/nfc-forum-adds-29-new-members/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2011/10/12/310640/nfc-forum-adds-29-new-members/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:54:45 +0000 Sarah Clark http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=10640 Companies joining the NFC standards association include advertising agency Dentsu, handset makers HTC and ZTE, MNO payments joint venture Isis and, at board level, UK-based Barclaycard.

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2011/10/12/310640/nfc-forum-adds-29-new-members/feed/ 0 Survey: Two-thirds of UK shoppers say cash is inconvenient http://www.nfcworld.com/2011/08/05/38949/survey-two-thirds-of-uk-shoppers-say-cash-is-inconvenient/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2011/08/05/38949/survey-two-thirds-of-uk-shoppers-say-cash-is-inconvenient/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:09:52 +0000 Sarah Clark http://www.nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com/?p=8949 "Consumers are increasingly less willing to carry large amounts of change around with them and many believe that coins will become obsolete in the future," new consumer research conducted by Barclays and Barclaycard has found.

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2011/08/05/38949/survey-two-thirds-of-uk-shoppers-say-cash-is-inconvenient/feed/ 0 Nokia: No mobile wallet support in current NFC phones http://www.nfcworld.com/2011/07/21/38715/nokia-no-mobile-wallet-support-in-current-nfc-phones/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2011/07/21/38715/nokia-no-mobile-wallet-support-in-current-nfc-phones/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:26:59 +0000 Heather McLean http://www.nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com/?p=8715 Nokia's C7 and N9 NFC phones are not equipped to support either an embedded secure element or an NFC SIM, the handset maker has told NFC World, so it won't be possible to use them for mobile payments or other secure NFC services.

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2011/07/21/38715/nokia-no-mobile-wallet-support-in-current-nfc-phones/feed/ 4 Transport for London to accept NFC payments from 2012 http://www.nfcworld.com/2011/07/12/38537/transport-for-london-to-accept-nfc-payments-from-2012/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2011/07/12/38537/transport-for-london-to-accept-nfc-payments-from-2012/#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:17:37 +0000 Heather McLean http://www.nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com/?p=8537 TfL has agreed to relax its transaction speed requirements to allow payments on London's bus and underground network to be made via NFC phones and contactless cards from next year — and expects faster NFC phones and contactless cards to arrive in the near future.

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2011/07/12/38537/transport-for-london-to-accept-nfc-payments-from-2012/feed/ 2 Barclaycard promotes NFC payments with spoof history of money video http://www.nfcworld.com/2011/07/01/38406/barclaycard-promotes-nfc-payments-with-spoof-history-of-money-video/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2011/07/01/38406/barclaycard-promotes-nfc-payments-with-spoof-history-of-money-video/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:17:51 +0000 Sarah Clark http://www.nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com/?p=8406 Barclaycard has produced a 'mockumentary' on the history of money, to promote the NFC-based Quick Tap service it launched with Orange in May. The video traces the history of money from its beginnings in the...

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