Touchatag

Alcatel-Lucent's Touchatag team has produced a video demonstrating the use of a Google Nexus S as both a POS terminal and as a payments device. The video shows funds being transferred from a customer's Nexus... More

Touchatag, the NFC tag application platform developed by Alcatel-Lucent, is now available as a downloadable app for Android NFC phones from Android Market. The service, first introduced in 2008, was developed from the start with... More

New research from mobile wallet solution provider Alcatel-Lucent has found that young consumers in ten countries around the world are willing to pay for the convenience of using their phone to check their balance, pay for public transport and buy electronic tickets. More

The new Mobile Wallet Service is a software-as-a-service platform for mobile network operators that combines proximity payments, mobile marketing, ticketing, international remittances, P2P funds transfer and mcommerce services.  More

Touchatag has partnered with Clear2Pay to launch a new platform that enables mobile operators to offer contactless payment, ticketing and marketing services using contactless stickers or NFC phones.  More

A US start-up has won two innovation competitions for its 'interactive correspondence' concept, an augmented print solution that uses tags and 2D barcodes to update, verify and supplement postal mail. 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

On the NFC Jobs Board this week there are three new vacancies at Touchatag, ITSO is looking for a CEO to drive forward the UK government's smart ticketing project, Qualcomm has additional vacancies and openings remain at Microsoft and at Orange Labs in France. More

The Vienna Jungle Scrum developer challenge, run by Touchatag and Mobilkom A1, is on the hunt for a top NFC-based city game with both prize money and the chance to see your game get made and played for real up for grabs. More

Belgacom's PingPing and Alcatel-Lucent's Touchatag are creating an open system that will allow consumers to use contactless cards, stickers or NFC phones to access services developed by a range of technology suppliers, operators and application developers. More