The RF SIM payments system developed by Chinese firm Trunkbow, in which VeriFone became an investor yesterday, is to be launched worldwide via US start-up MobilePay, the company’s chairman Rick May tells NFC World... More
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VeriFone buys stake in RF SIM supplier
VeriFone Holdings has announced that it is co-lead investor in a reverse merger financing for Trunkbow International Holdings Ltd, a Chinese mobile payments and value-added service applications company specialising in 2.4GHz (RF SIM) NFC solutions... More
NFC Forum spec adds digital signatures to prevent tag tampering
The standards body has published an important draft specification that will enable developers to protect NFC tags in smart posters and other applications from being tampered with or replaced with an imposter tag. More
Has China Mobile found the business model for mobile contactless and NFC?
OPINION: One of the key forecasts in our new report ‘NFC: The Road to Commercial Deployment’ is that successful NFC services will require one company to firmly take the lead, and that this will inevitably see banks and mobile network operators going head-to-head in a battle to win control of consumers’ mobile wallets. More
Banka Koper begins NFC payments and promotions trial in Slovenia
Trial participants can use their Sagem Wireless NFC handsets to make payments and to collect information and promotional coupons from smart posters. More
China Telecom begins RF SIM trial
The country’s third largest mobile network operator is testing non-NFC standard RF SIM technology in Shanghai, where China Unicom is already running an NFC trial. More
Paris transport operators begin NFC ticketing trial
The six month trial will see 1,000 commuters replacing their current travel pass with a dedicated NFC device supplied by Neowave. More
China Mobile begins commercial rollout of mobile contactless payments system
RF SIMs are now widely available for subscribers to purchase from China Mobile stores and the first major retailer has signed up to accept the new mobile contactless payments technology. More
Telefonica announces NFC trial in Sitges, Spain
Telefonica has announced this morning that it is to run an NFC trial in the Spanish resort of Sitges, in conjunction with Visa and La Caixa bank (see a photo from the press conference here)... More
NFC Forum joins up with GSMA, EMVCo and Smart Card Alliance
The NFC Forum has signed a series of agreements, with the GSM Association (GSMA), EMVCo and the Smart Card Alliance, designed to enable it to work more closely with each of the associations on the development of the NFC market and near field communication-based solutions... More
China Mobile puts three million RF SIMs into production
Rumours that the world’s largest telecoms operator is to introduce a mobile contactless payments and ticketing system using a non-NFC standard technology have been confirmed with the news that three million RF SIMs are now in production. More
Card and chip suppliers to offer open transport ticketing standard
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
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