The new venture from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has been the source of much speculation ever since tech blog Mashable posted a photograph of a new iPhone payments system that he was working on... More
Archive: Newswire
Nokia exits the TSM market
Giesecke & Devrient has acquired Nokia‘s shares in Venyon, the Trusted Service Management specialist the two companies set up as a joint venture in 2006... More
59% of consumers want to use their phone to make purchases at the point of sale
The majority (59%) of consumers are interested in using their phone like they would a credit or debit card at the cash register to make a purchase, according to a new survey conducted by StrategyOne for Firethorn, a mobile commerce specialist owned by Qualcomm... More
Orange launches open source NFC application developer toolkit
Mobile network operator Orange has developed an NFC Application Developer Toolkit and made it available as open source software. IzyNFC is designed to enable the development of mobile NFC applications based on a SIM-centric architecture and Java platform... More
NFC mobile payments trial to go live in Dubai in next two weeks
Mobile operator Du and card issuer Dubai First have begun distributing handsets to trial participants ahead of the launch in the next two weeks of the Middle East’s first NFC mobile payments pilot... More
Vivotech launches contactless stickers and mobile loyalty platform
Vivotech has launched a new contactless sticker product and a backend loyalty system aimed at retailers and other companies looking to launch mobile contactless loyalty and couponing programmes... More
Chinese operator, banks to launch co-branded mobile payments services
A deal between Chinese bank card association China UnionPay (CUP) and mobile operator China Unicom is set to see the introduction of a series of co-branded mobile payments services... More
ABnote and Sicap partner to cut the cost of NFC services
ABnote Europe and Sicap have signed a collaboration agreement designed to cut the cost of operating NFC services... More
Researchers forecast the European market for mobile money
The mobile money market in Western Europe is set to grow to between 4 and 5 billion Euros by 2013, according to a new forecast by Frost & Sullivan... More
ABI ranks contactless transaction and NFC chip suppliers
NXP Semiconductor has been ranked at the top of the latest edition of ABI Research’s Contactless Transaction IC Vendor Matrix... More
12.5m extra locations to accept contactless payments by 2013
The number of locations that accept contactless payments is set to increase by over 12.5 million by the end of 2013, according to the latest data from IMS Research... More
Trusted Logic to demonstrate peer-to-peer NFC for Android
Trusted Logic is to demonstrate peer-to-peer connection of mobile handsets through its Trusted NFC software platform for Google Android operating system at Cartes 2009 next week... More
Ericsson Labs launches NFC and RFID tag developer tools
Ericsson Labs has launched Tag Tools, a set of developer tools for working with NFC and RFID tags... More
STMicroelectronics to add Mifare functionality to new range of NFC SIMs
STMicroelectronics and NXP have signed a licensing deal that will see STMicroelectronics integrating the entire Mifare family into its security solutions for mobile phone and banking applications... More
Arcontia launches contactless reader for transport and payments applications
Swedish card reader specialist Arcontia has launched a smart card reader compatible with NFC, ISO14443 A/B, ISO 18092 and EMV contactless standards and aimed at the e-ticketing and e-payment markets... More
Toro’s user management system in running for a Sesame award
NFC specialist Toro‘s Akami software suite has been selected as a finalist in the Mobile category of the prestigious Sesames Awards... More
Getyoo launches NFC-based social networking system
Belgian start-up Getyoo has launched in beta a web-based platform designed to enable people to gather all their contacts and social activity in one place... More
Sagem Orga adds Java Card functionality to MyMax NFC stickers
Sagem Orga and Twinlinx are introducing a mobile contactless sticker based on Twinlinx’s MyMax NFC sticker and Sagem Orga’s Java Card technology... More
G&D launches MasterCard mobile payments sticker
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has launched Convego Air Mobile, a contactless payment sticker conforming to the MasterCard PayPass contactless card standard... More
MasterCard certifies Venyon’s TSM service
Venyon‘s data center in Munich, Germany has become the first in Europe to receive certification under the MasterCard Mobile Provisioning Security Requirements, enabling the company to provide approved Trusted Service Manager (TSM) services to MasterCard issuers... More