PARTNER NEWS: AMS’ AS3914 NFC reader IC has been selected by automotive equipment supplier Marquardt for its new series of contactless door lock and ignition control modules due, says the chip maker, to the chip’s reliable NFC coupling even when mounted in close proximity to sheet metal... More
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Webinar on delivering NFC transport ticketing services at scale — See it now on NFC World
NFC World’s ‘Tap to travel: Delivering NFC transport ticketing services at scale’ webinar is now available to view online... More
NXP ‘focused on mobile wallet’
PARTNER NEWS: “What we’re focused on is the mobile wallet,” NXP CEO Rick Clemmer has told CNBC in an interview in which he discusses the company’s smartphone products, growth in China and its partnership with Qualcomm... More
Clear2Pay gets Visa confirmation as CVES provider
PARTNER NEWS: Conformance testing specialist Clear2Pay has been approved by Visa for its Chip Vendor Enabled Service (CVES) to help streamline and support the deployment of EMV-enabled contact and contactless payment devices in the US... More
AMS launches NFC interface chip with advanced energy management
PARTNER NEWS: Chip maker AMS has launched an NFC interface chip (NFiC) that offers “unique energy harvesting and data transfer capabilities” and can capture enough energy to power the device it is built into... More
Join NFC World and the GSMA today for an NFC transport ticketing webinar
More than 300 NFC World readers are set to take part in a free webinar on NFC in transport ticketing presented in association with the GSMA and the Mifare4Mobile Industry Group at 3pm BST/4pm CEST/10am EDT today... More
Google to launch mobile buy buttons?
Google is expected to add buy buttons to search results pages on mobile devices in the coming weeks that will guide consumers to product pages where they can pick sizes, colours and shipping options before completing a purchase... More
Join NFC World for a free webinar on NFC transport ticketing
The next event in NFC World’s free educational webinar series will be held at 15:00 BST on Thursday 21 May, when the GSMA and invited experts will explain how to deliver standardised Mifare ticketing services on NFC devices... More
Payments veteran Buffy Duke joins Carta
PARTNER NEWS: Transaction technology provider Carta Worldwide has hired Elizabeth “Buffy” Duke as its vice president of business development... More
Bell ID makes case for banks to become TSPs
PARTNER NEWS: Tokenization solutions specialist Bell ID has drawn on experience gained from multiple live projects around the world to make the case for why a bank would become a token service provider (TSP) and manage its own token vault... More
Apple Watch carries NFC components from NXP and AMS
A teardown of the Apple Watch shows a design centred on a custom processor with NFC components from NXP and AMS, ABI Research has revealed... More
NFC inventors nominated for Patent Office award
Two NXP engineers have been nominated for a prestigious inventors’ award from the European Patent Office in recognition of the role they played in the birth of NFC. More
Jawbone to add NFC payments?
Wearable device maker Jawbone could be about to add NFC payment capabilities to its fitness trackers... More
Microsoft seeks US payments licenses
Microsoft could be poised to enter the payments business after it emerged the software giant has applied for licenses to operate as a money transmitter in all 50 US states... More
Brainwave biometrics to arrive in three years
Consumers could be able to authenticate themselves using brain wave and heart beat bio-signals from as soon as February 2018... More
ANZ to add HCE payments to mobile banking app
ANZ Bank New Zealand is to add NFC mobile payments to its popular goMoney mobile banking app later this year... More
China Telecom launches NFC ticketing
Residents of Shanghai and Beijing can now ride the metro and pay for tickets with their China Telecom NFC smartphones... More
Windows 10 for mobile gets HCE
Microsoft is to introduce support for host card emulation (HCE) payments in the mobile version of its Windows 10 operating system... More
Bell ID reports 75% growth in orders
PARTNER NEWS: Orders are up 75% year-on-year at HCE and tokenization specialist Bell ID, the company reports, “with 90% of all new orders and requests for proposals focusing on mobile solutions.”... More
NXP uses NFC to make smart homes easier to manage
PARTNER NEWS: Chip maker NXP has introduced a wireless microcontroller and accompanying smart home and smart lighting solutions that use NFC to make it easy for users to “connect systems intuitively with just one tap”... More