Motorola Ventures has announced an investment in Scanbuy, a leading supplier of mobile 1D and 2D barcode solutions... More
Archive for 2010
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
Irish banks to launch NFC services in 2011?
Executives from Visa Europe are meeting with Irish banks in Dublin this week with a view to launching commercial NFC services in Ireland, according to a report in the Irish Examiner:... More
NFC’s fortunes will favour the bold
OPINION: It has become received wisdom in NFC circles that Japan and Korea, where mobile contactless services were successful established by one lead player, are unique and can’t be repeated elsewhere. More
Discover reveals the results of its mobile sticker trial
Since April 2009 the payments network has been running an internal pilot designed to find out how US consumers would respond to the introduction of mobile contactless stickers — with some surprising results. More
Inside Contactless signs development partnership with TazTag
Inside Contactless has formed a partnership with TazTag, supplier of the TazCard NFC wallet, to develop and bring to market a variety of highly secured, multi-application contactless solutions based on near field communication technology... More
Poland and Italy commit to contactless payments
The move to contactless cards and NFC-compatible point-of-sale terminals is gathering pace with banks in Italy and Poland announcing plans for widespread contactless card deployments this year. More
One of the players must take on the risk before NFC can succeed, says founder of Japanese mobile wallet
Carl Atsushi Hirano, the driving force behind the introduction five years ago of Japan’s Osaïfu Keitai mobile wallet service, has set out his thinking on what was required to make the service a success and what it will take to successfully introduce NFC services in other countries. More
US smartphone users keen to make payments with their phones
An in-depth survey of 246 US smartphone users conducted by wireless industry research specialists Data Innovation has found that nearly two-thirds are interested in adding mobile wallet functionality to their phones... More
Blaze customers access their mobile wallets nine times a day
Blaze Mobile, the US mobile banking and mobile wallet services provider, has revealed that its active users are now accessing their Blaze Mobile Wallets an average of nine times a day... More
Vivotech launches contactless POS terminals with built-in mobile marketing functions
Vivotech has introduced a new range of contactless POS terminals that come with a built in ability to delivery mobile marketing and promotional programmes as well as prepaid and gift card acceptance and support for digital receipts... More
NFC Forum offers competition guidance via webcast
The NFC Forum is hosting a webcast at 8am EST on 20 January to provide potential entrants in its annual global competition with tips on what the judges are looking for... More
Banks and mobile operators to go head to head for NFC mobile payments business
Banks and mobile network operators are set to go head to head in a bid to control the market for NFC mobile payments services, according to a new research report published today... More
Orange and Barclaycard move towards NFC payments launch
The British bank and the mobile network operator have launched a co-branded credit card, described as “the next step in the partnership between Orange and Barclaycard to deliver contactless mobile payments.” More