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
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MoLo launches mobile rewards programme in San Diego and Toronto
MoLo Rewards has launched its mobile rewards programme in the cities of San Diego and Toronto... More
Samsung adds NFC to bestselling Tocco Lite/Star/Player One/Avila
The bestselling touchscreen phone, known by a number of brand names in different regions, is to be used in trials in Spain, France and Dubai — but there are no plans yet to make the NFC version of the handset available at retail. More
Parkeur uses NFC to ease the pain of parking in busy urban areas
A team from French science engineering graduate school Polytech’Marseille has been shortlisted in the 2010 Simagine awards for an NFC application designed to ease the pain of parking in busy urban areas... More
Gemalto adds mobile coupons to its NFC products
Gemalto has announced a partnership with leading coupon specialist HighCo that will see the company adding mobile coupons to its NFC Trusted Service Manager (TSM) offering... More
Industry players to develop standardized NFC API for Android devices
Trusted Logic has announced a new initiative to provide an open, standardized API for building NFC functionality into Android devices... More
Over 1bn consumers to use mobile banking services by 2015
The global customer base for mobile banking will reach 1.1bn by the year 2015, according to a new report from Global Industry Analysts... More
Zapa adds mobile loyalty application to contactless stickers
Zapa Technology has partnered with Mobiun to enable users of its mobile loyalty system to check and manage loyalty points they have collected via their mobile handsets... More
Veolia Transport appoints Trusted Labs to validate NFC applications
Veolia Transport has appointed Trusted Labs to validate the company’s NFC transport application, which will be deployed as part of the Nice NFC City pre-commercial pilot due to take place from the second quarter of 2010... More
French government offers €3m funding for NFC and RFID innovations
The new funding brings the government’s investment in kick-starting mobile contactless innovation to a total of €10 million. More
Sagem Orga and Telenor use WiFi to add NFC to 100% of mobile phones
The Norwegian telecoms firm and the SIM and smart card specialist are using an NFC-enabled key fob in combination with a new wireless-enabled SIM to deliver NFC functionality to 100% of today’s mobile phones. More
Inside Contactless to supply Cosyphone’s NFC technology
The near field communication functionality in Sagem Wireless’ Cosyphone, a new NFC handset designed for the over 50s, is being supplied by Inside Contactless... More
Cybercom develops NFC solution for parking meters and vending machines
Swedish technology consultancy Cybercom has developed an NFC-based mobile wallet solution aimed at enabling mobile payments at parking meters, stores and vending machines... More
Toro and G&D to develop microSD-based secure financial services
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has teamed up with Hong Kong-based NFC specialist Toro to develop a range of mobile financial applications based on G&D’s microSD format Mobile Security Card and Toro’s Akami mobile platform... More
G&D to enable PIN-protected transactions on NFC phones
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is demonstrating a prototype of a complete security platform for mobile handsets, designed to enable a range of services including PIN-protected mobile payments, at the Mobile World Congress... More
Sagem Wireless launches NFC phone for the over 50s
The new Cosyphone uses NFC to make it easy for users to access the features on the phone without having to scroll through menus on the handset. More
Gemalto adds Mifare DESFire to NFC phones
Gemalto has announced it has implemented NXP’s Mifare DESFire transport ticketing solution on a SIM card for the first time, enabling NFC phones to be used to replace tickets on the forty transport systems around the world that have implemented the high security ticketing system to date... More
NFC trial begins at Mobile World Congress
Four hundred Samsung Star NFC handsets are being distributed to selected Mobile World Congress attendees for use at the event, which opens in Barcelona today... More
Visa banks to field test DeviceFidelity’s microSD-based NFC solution
The first trials of a Visa-backed NFC add-on will begin during the second quarter of 2010. More
NFC bus ticketing trial to take place in Madrid
An NFC bus ticketing pilot is to be run in Madrid, Spain by Bankinter and Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid (EMT), beginning in mid-2010... More