The smartphone maker’s new flagship device is the first to use Mobeam technology, allowing coupons, loyalty cards, gift cards, event tickets and more to be transmitted from the device to any of the 165m laser scanners installed in retail stores today. More
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Weve picks Logic Group for coupon and loyalty pilot
Weve, the joint venture between the three major mobile network operators that is working to bring mobile payments services to market in the UK, has chosen customer interaction specialist The Logic Group as one of its first technology providers... More
Think&Go upgrades NFC Shopping system
Retail specialist Think&Go NFC has introduced a new version of its NFC Shopping system at the NRF tradeshow in New York... More
Koamtac adds NFC to scanner
Koamtac has launched a compact portable Bluetooth barcode scanner designed to be used in conjunction with a smartphone or tablet computer... More
MasterCard buys into NFC wallet provider C-Sam
MasterCard has signed a strategic partnership agreement with C-Sam and also acquired a minority shareholding in the NFC mobile wallet and transaction platform provider... More
Mocapay adds wallet API
Mocapay has launched a platform that enables merchants to add mobile wallet capabilities to their mobile apps via a single API... More
Sixty banks and retailers sign up for new Korean mobile wallet service
KT’s MoCa combines payment cards, coupons and offers stored in the cloud with a mobile wallet app that allows consumers to make payments at merchants via traditional barcodes, QR codes or NFC — providing retailers with the flexibility to use their prefered choice of POS hardware to close the “last inch” at the point-of-sale. More
Auchan picks mobile barcodes for France’s MCX
“Our goal is to create the m-payment standard within the retail sector, independent of any telephone operators and banks,” says the head of Flash’n Pay, a new mobile wallet brand that has been created by one of the country’s largest grocery retailers and is set to go head to head with the French carriers’ NFC-based Cityzi service. More
Android 4.2 adds NFC barcodes
The release of Android 4.2 sees support for Kovio‘s NFC Barcode printed tags added to the operating system... More
LevelUp adds white label option
Mobile barcode and NFC payments/offers start-up LevelUp has introduced a white label version of its service... More
Casino to open world’s first NFC-enabled supermarket
Shoppers at the French supermarket chain’s Les Belles Feuilles branch in Paris will be able to use shelf-edge labels equipped with NFC tags to obtain details of each of 25,000 products on offer, scan items into their basket and then checkout by simply tapping their NFC phone to a reader attached to the retailer’s cash register. More
CommBank unveils Android POS platform
The Australian bank has followed its Kaching mobile payments service with the launch of a point-of-sale application development platform that works with an Android-based POS terminal as well as an add-on for Apple iPhones and iPods and is designed to allow developers to add new types of features for merchants via mobile phone-style apps. More
Isis releases video tutorials
The US NFC payments venture has produced a series of educational videos, designed to show consumers how to use the Isis Mobile Wallet in stores and how to add cards and offers, as it moves towards pilot launches in Austin and Salt Lake City. More
Google adds ‘Save to Wallet’ APIs for payments cards and offers
The new APIs will allow consumers to save offers directly from a merchant’s website into Google Wallet and then redeem them at the point-of-sale via NFC, mobile barcodes or by simply showing the offer code to the sales assistant. More
Windows Phone 8 launch video details Microsoft’s plans for NFC
The launch presentation for Windows Phone 8 shows how Microsoft plans to make its NFC mobile wallet more widely accepted than Google’s, provides details of a forthcoming NFC-enabled Chase payments app and highlights a new deals platform and in-app purchasing technology that charges items to the user’s default payment card. More
Apple shows off Passbook mobile wallet
Video coverage of the launch of Apple’s first mobile wallet app shows how it will enable developers to build mobile barcode-based ticketing, stored value, loyalty card and coupon apps for today’s iPhones — and hints at how these apps could migrate to NFC in the future. More
Apple debuts barcode-based Passbook mobile wallet
Apple’s forthcoming iOS 6 is to include a new app billed as “the simplest way to get all your passes in one place.”... More
Jersey Mike’s loyalty launch shows regional differences in consumer acceptance of NFC
More than 200,000 of the sandwich chain’s customers have signed up for a loyalty program that offers both NFC tags and barcode-based ID. In southern California many outlets have seen almost half their customers choose to use the tags while those in other regions are only moving to mobile contactless as they become more familiar with the technology. More
Paypal brings mobile payments to UK stores
Online payments giant PayPal is continuing its expansion into offline payments with the launch of a barcode-based mobile payments service in the UK... More
Tablet PC offers NFC payments module
A new rugged tablet PC comes with an optional mobile payment module that can be used to process NFC transactions... More