Adirondack Trust, a local bank in New York State, has introduced a mobile contactless payments service to its personal and business customers... More
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First Data to offer Tyfone’s SideTap NFC MicroSD cards, will run first trials in US from mid-2010
The cards “will be sold where consumers buy memory cards today, including retail merchants and major network operators as well as new locations such as mass transit kiosks and financial institution branch locations,” says First Data, and “SideTap MicroSD cards may also come pre-bundled in handsets.” More
Blackboard adds NFC and contactless support to campus card system
Blackboard, which supplies campus card solutions to hundreds of higher education institutes, has launched a new contactless and NFC-compatible version of its Blackboard Transact card system, based on Sony FeliCa contactless technology... More
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
Discover reveals the results of its mobile sticker trial
Since April 2009 the payments network has been running an internal pilot designed to find out how US consumers would respond to the introduction of mobile contactless stickers — with some surprising results. More
US smartphone users keen to make payments with their phones
An in-depth survey of 246 US smartphone users conducted by wireless industry research specialists Data Innovation has found that nearly two-thirds are interested in adding mobile wallet functionality to their phones... More
Blaze customers access their mobile wallets nine times a day
Blaze Mobile, the US mobile banking and mobile wallet services provider, has revealed that its active users are now accessing their Blaze Mobile Wallets an average of nine times a day... More
Blaze Mobile adds Tetherball’s loyalty system to the Blaze Wallet
Blaze Mobile and Tetherball are to provide US consumers with the ability to both redeem mobile rewards and coupons and make purchases using their mobile phone... 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
ITIF calls on the government to kickstart the deployment of mobile contactless services in the US
The Washington think tank recommends ways in which government can help to get NFC and mobile contactless services off the ground. More
McDonalds, Arby’s, Qdoba, Dairy Queen and Dunkin’ Donuts testing Tetherball’s mobile loyalty system
“The results we’ve seen since launching our mobile rewards program in early July are greater than even our most optimistic projections,” says Brent Higgins of Aztec Partners, one of Qdoba Mexican Grill’s largest franchisees. More
Bling Nation signs up second Colorado bank, secures $20m funding
Park State Bank & Trust, based in Woodland Park, Colorado, has become the second bank to sign up for Bling Nation‘s mobile contactless-sticker based payments system... More
Bling Nation targets more Colorado banks
Following the successful launch of mobile contactless payments at The State Bank of La Junta, Bling Nation has appointed Rod Stambaugh as regional president for the company’s Colorado operations... More
Tranzfinity adds NFC to Facebook
A new NFC-based service has launched in Los Angeles that automatically updates a consumer’s Facebook status with a message from the merchant every time they tap a poster in a shop or restaurant to obtain a special offer. More
62% of State Bank customers have already used their phones to make a purchase, in less than five months
The customers of The State Bank of La Junta in the US have enthusiastically adopted the new mobile contactless sticker-based Redi Pay Bling service since it launched in May — and local merchants have been quick to adopt the technology, too, with 23 switching their accounts to do so since the launch. More
New York’s MTA to accept contactless bank cards for bus and subway fare payments
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has announced plans to enable passengers to use contactless debit or credit cards to pay for bus and subway fares by 2014... More
Tetherball reports up to 50% redemption rates, adds detailed analytics to its RFID mobile marketing service
A new version of Tetherball‘s sticker-based mobile marketing service, currently on test at Dairy Queen in the US, has been released... More
NACHA plans change to operating rules for mobile payments
The US electronic payments association has issued a Request for Comment concerning plans to change its operating rules to provide a framework for emerging mobile payments applications... More
Starbucks launches own mobile payment service
Starbucks has launched a new 2D barcode-based app that lets users make payments with their iPhone at 16 stores in the Seattle and Silicon Valley areas using a mobile version of their Starbucks Card... More
OnPoint Community Credit Union chooses NFC micro-SD supplier Tyfone for mobile banking launch
The credit union will use Tyfone’s u4ia platform to deliver a ‘standard’ mobile banking service but, says OnPoint, “Tyfone’s unique secure memory card technology gives us exceptional flexibility to deliver some very exciting new member services down the road.” More