Infineon, Giesecke & Devrient, Oberthur Technologies and Inside Contactless have teamed up to support the creation of an open security standard for mobile and chip-based transport tickets. More
Archive for February 2010
Visa Europe to invest €200m in development of contactless payments by card and mobile
“M-commerce is a strategic priority,” says Visa Europe’s head of UK and Ireland, “we are working and talking with all the mobile operators and handset manufacturers to develop standards for payment on mobile phones.” More
Former Hewlett Packard chief technologist joins NFC solutions provider
David Croslin, a former chief technologist at Hewlett Packard and chief product architect for Verizon Business has joined NFC solutions provider SecureNFC as chairman of the board... More
Swedish NFC payments system developer gets $2m funding
Accumulate, developer of an NFC payments system currently being rolled out to 100,000 Swedish university students, has received over US$2m in venture capital funding... More
Motorola invests in mobile barcode company
Motorola Ventures has announced an investment in Scanbuy, a leading supplier of mobile 1D and 2D barcode solutions... More
15 billion mobile tickets to be delivered in 2014
A new study by Juniper Research has forecast that nearly 15 billion tickets will be delivered to subscribers’ mobile devices worldwide by 2014, compared to just over two billion this year... More
G&D and ARM to develop mobile device security solutions
ARM and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) have announced a strategic partnership aimed at the development of highly secure mobile phone platforms... More
Gemalto acquires mobile authentication leader Valimo Wireless
Gemalto has acquired Valimo Wireless, the world leader in mobile authentication... More
Sagem Wireless to add fingerprint verification to new range of mobile phones
Sagem Wireless has formed a partnership with Upek to bring fingerprint identity capabilities to a range of new devices that it plans to launch later this year, including new Android-based mobile devices... More
Inside Contactless makes it easier to add NFC to mobile handsets
The NFC specialist is making its NFC protocol stack available via an Apache open source license, in a move that should make it simpler and easier for manufacturers to add NFC functionality to mobile phones and other devices. More