Business software firm Oracle has been conducting experiments with NFC and has found it “too time consuming” to use at the point of sale, the firm’s David Dorf has reported... More
Archive for April 2011
Vodafone brings NFC payments to Hungary’s Sziget Festival
One of Europe’s premier music festivals has teamed up with Vodafone to provide visitors with contactless payment cards — and some will also get the chance to pay with NFC phones... More
Atlanta Fed states mobile payments will be ‘safer than plastic cards’
“The mobile phone will be a much more secure payment device than the plastic cards we use today.” That is the view of the assistant director of the Retail Payments Risk Forum, in a blog post published this week by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta... More
Google chooses Identive to deliver NFC tags for Places campaign
Identive’s ACIG Technology subsidiary has been picked as the exclusive supplier of NFC stickers for the Austin, Texas roll-out of the search engine giant’s Google Places local recommendation service. More
Visa Europe announces €100m annual mobile payments investment
Visa Europe will invest €100 million a year in commercially launching mobile payments and developing its e-commerce services, the firm’s chief executive has confirmed... More
NXP denies takeover talks — but reveals price it could accept
Chip maker NXP is not in takeover talks, its chief executive has said, although he would consider an offer like the one Texas Instruments made for National Semiconductor, Reuters reports... More
Samsung ready to unveil two new NFC-enabled Bada smartphones
Samsung is planning to release two more NFC-enabled Bada-based smartphones later this year, Badaworld reports... More
Yespay Wallet to be ready for NFC by end of 2011
Yespay International is to introduce an NFC mobile wallet service that will allow customers to use coupons and discount vouchers via NFC by the end of the year, the company’s CEO has told NFC World... More
Swisscom prepaid customers top up at in-store NFC kiosks
Mobile software provider Sicap and Switzerland’s leading telecoms provider Swisscom have launched a contactless in-store kiosk that allows prepaid subscribers to top up their phones... More
Mastercard mandates contactless POS terminals in Australia and New Zealand
Global payments network Mastercard has announced a plan to make contactless payments a way of life in Australia and New Zealand over the next four years... More
Zenius aims to be ‘Microsoft of the NFC world’
The Silicon Valley-based startup has unveiled a hardware-neutral NFC platform that, co-founder John Wiese has told NFC World, will allow developers to write software applications once and then deploy them on multiple types of NFC phone. More
SIMalliance Open Mobile API provides access to secure elements
Trade association SIMalliance has unveiled a specification for a standardised API which will improve the security of mobile phones and tablet computers, reducing the threat of identity theft... More
First Data launches NFC TSM
The payments processing giant and NFC TSM specialist SK C&C say their service has been released in time to coincide with a ‘tipping point’ for NFC. More
idOnDemand secures mobile access to corporate data with NFC
Smart identification providers idOnDemand have teamed up with NXP Semiconductors to create a secure, NFC-enabled way for staff to authenticate access to their organisation’s private information and services from mobile devices... More
Motorola launches NFC-enabled version of MC75A mobile computer
Motorola has unveiled an NFC-enabled mobile computer, a seven-in-one device that combines mobile communication and secure contactless transaction capability... More
NFC phones used to check LA Metro passengers’ tickets
Ticket inspectors working for the public transport operators in Los Angeles and Minneapolis-St Paul are now using NFC phones to read passengers’ contactless transport tickets and check they have paid their fare. More
Isis signs Utah Transit Authority for 2012 launch in Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City is set to become ‘the place you can leave your wallet at home’, says Isis, as it announces the location of its launch city — and a change of business model to an open service that ‘will be available to all merchants, banks, payment networks and mobile carriers.’ More
Ingenico agrees US$54m deal for Hypercom’s US payments division
‘The acquisition… is a major step in our strategic development notably aimed at accelerating the adoption of contactless NFC technology,’ says the French firm’s CEO. More
Sprint to launch NFC service in US in 2011, ahead of Isis joint venture
US mobile network operator Sprint has told Bloomberg Businessweek that it plans to launch a commercial NFC service in the US this year, in a move that will see it entering the market ahead of the Isis NFC joint venture between AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA: ... More
One million Chinese consumers adopt Watchdata’s NFC technology in just four months
Growth in the Chinese mobile payments market has helped Watchdata sell another million of its NFC Simpass devices in just four months. More