Ticket inspectors working for the public transport operators in Los Angeles and Minneapolis-St Paul are now using NFC phones to read passengers’ contactless transport tickets and check they have paid their fare. More
Salt Lake City is set to become ‘the place you can leave your wallet at home’, says Isis, as it announces the location of its launch city — and a change of business model to an open service that ‘will be available to all merchants, banks, payment networks and mobile carriers.’ More
US mobile network operator Sprint has told Bloomberg Businessweek that it plans to launch a commercial NFC service in the US this year, in a move that will see it entering the market ahead of the Isis NFC joint venture between AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA: ... More
Mobile Tag has signed a deal to provide its NFC and 2D barcode advertising platform to “America’s largest wireless carrier.” This is likely to be Verizon Wireless, although Mobile Tag has declined to confirm to NFC World the identity of its customer... More
Bling Nation has announced the launch of its FanConnect service in Austin, Texas, expanding the reach of its social rewards program where consumers can tap to earn, redeem and share rewards with their social networks at checkout with their mobile phone... More
Charge Anywhere has unveiled new mobile payment software which can transform Google’s Nexus S smartphone into an NFC payment terminal... More
Buyers of the Nokia Astound smartphone, a T-Mobile USA version of the Nokia C7 that has been unveiled this week at the CTIA Wireless show, will be able to access the phone’s in-built NFC capabilities from day one, Nokia has told NFC World... More
Google is planning to begin an NFC mobile payments trial in stores in New York and San Francisco within the next four months, according to “two people familiar with the project,” Bloomberg reports:... More
The internet giant is offering visitors 10,000 free monorail tickets as it expands its NFC-enabled Google Places and Hotpot marketing system to a third US city. More
BoyGeniusReport has revealed details of a new invitation-only NFC payments trial to be conducted by Bank of America... More
NFC services will begin in Germany and Poland in 2011 and in the US, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic in 2012. In Germany, the operator looks set to offer its own payments service but in other countries it will partner with other operators or with banks, depending on market conditions. More
Less than one in 10 consumers in the US are prepared to pay for mobile payment and banking services, despite a surge in use in the past year... More
Google has picked the city of Austin, Texas as the second location for its rollout of NFC-based marketing services... More
Isis has appointed Ryan Hughes as its chief marketing officer, responsible for marketing the NFC mobile payments joint venture to merchants, advertisers and other businesses across the US, All Things Digital reports... More
Mobile payments provider Blaze Mobile has announced a new patent pending sticker that supports two way communication between the sticker and the mobile phone it is attached to... More
Just a few days after the announcement of the Google Nexus S with in-built NFC and support for near field communication in the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, Google has launched its first NFC-based marketing service... More
Discover Financial Services has begun issuing Discover Zip contactless credit cards and stickers to select cardholders... More
Bank of America plans to issue contactless stickers to its credit and debit card customers next year, PaymentsSource reports:... More
US Bank has begun a field trial of microSD format NFC devices... More
“I remain highly confident in Visa’s long-term growth and innovation strategy, including our plans to continue work with our partners to accelerate the adoption and usage of mobile payments,” writes Bill Gajda, the company’s head of global mobile product, in a post on the official Visa blog. More