Chinese SIM and smart card supplier Eastcompeace has announced that its RF SIM card has now been certified by the Ministry of Information Industry’s IC Card Quality Supervision Center... More
Archive: Newswire
Ericsson Labs adds QR code support to NFC and RFID tag developer tool
Ericsson Labs has upgraded Tag Tool, the set of developer tools for working with NFC and RFID tags first launched in November 2009... More
Barclaycard and Orange to launch commercial NFC service by the end of 2010
Card issuer Barclaycard and mobile network operator Orange are to launch a commercial NFC service in the UK before the end of 2010, a senior Barclaycard executive has revealed... More
DeviceFidelity signs up first licensees for its In2Pay NFC microSD solution
DeviceFidelity has signed up the first licensees for its microSD format NFC solution, UK mobile payments provider Monitise and US mobile solutions provider Ecrio, and has announced version 2 of its In2Pay product, adding support for EMV compliant payment applications and for Mifare ticketing applications... More
China Mobile confirms purchase of stake in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank
China Mobile has agreed to pay $5.8 billion for a 20% stake in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPD Bank), making the mobile network operator the second largest shareholder in the bank... More
NFC Forum adds 19 new members
Nineteen additional companies from fourteen countries have signed up to become members of the NFC Forum... More
Manila mobile commerce event to include NFC
The 3rd Mobile Commerce Summit Asia is to take place at the Crowne Plaza Galleria Manila Hotel on 23 to 26 March 2010... More
Blackboard adds NFC and contactless support to campus card system
Blackboard, which supplies campus card solutions to hundreds of higher education institutes, has launched a new contactless and NFC-compatible version of its Blackboard Transact card system, based on Sony FeliCa contactless technology... More
Objecs adds NFC to headstones
US firm Objecs has launched a new range of wireless-enabled memorial products designed to enable detailed information about the deceased to be stored in an NFC tag attached to a gravestone... More
UPM Raflatac and Hansaprint relaunch NFC tag personalization portal
NFC and RFID tag supplier UPM Raflatac and printing group Hansaprint have relaunched TagAge, an online portal that enables customers to create and purchase customized NFC-enabled print products such as smart posters, tickets, labels and business cards... More
Barclays increases contactless transaction limit by 50%
Barclays Bank has increased the transaction limit for contactless cards from £10 to £15... More
EnStream begins Zoompass mobile payments sticker trial
EnStream, the joint venture between Canada’s three leading mobile operators which operates the Zoompass mobile wallet service, has begun its first mobile contactless sticker trial... More
Video shows how China Mobile’s RF SIM technology works at the point-of-sale
A reporter from Chinese IT portal Zol.com has produced a video report on China Mobile’s new RF SIM-based mobile payments service which shows the technology in action at a local supermarket... More
China Mobile to buy stake in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank?
Bloomberg reports that China Mobile may be about to buy a 20% stake in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank at a cost of 40bn yuan (about $5.9bn)... More
Visa appoints senior GSMA executive to head its move to mobile
Visa Inc has appointed Bill Gajda as its new head of mobile... More
SK Telekom, Hana Financial to launch mobile contactless service in March
Hana Card, the Korean credit card issuer in which SK Telekom took a 49% stake in December, has announced it is to launch its new mobile proximity service in mid-March... More
Vivotech picks Zapa for European TSM services
Vivotech has selected Zapa Technology as its preferred partner for managed Trusted Service Manager (TSM) services in Europe... More
Canadian mobile operators ‘plan to introduce NFC or contactless handsets within the year’
EnStream, the joint venture between Canada’s three leading mobile operators which operates the Zoompass mobile wallet service, aims to offer NFC or contactless enabled handsets to customers within the year, the company has told NFC World... More
PhoobyBook introduces TouchTwits for NFC-based social networking
Italian start-up FreeAccess has developed a new service that enables users to send each other Twitter-like NFC-based short messages by simply tapping their NFC handset over a friend’s phone... More
Cash still accounts for 78% of European payments
Cash payments accounted for 78% of Europe’s 388 billion retail payment transactions in 2008, according to a new study by Retail Banking Research (RBR), and the cost of distributing, managing, handling, processing and recycling cash and of accepting cash payments came to a total of €84 billion... More