USA Technologies (USAT) has teamed up with NFC platform provider Isis to offer a mobile loyalty program... More
Usat and Isis launch loyalty program for NFC vending machines
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Eye picks Zappit for NFC advertising in US malls
Mall media operator Eye has announced a partnership with NFC specialist Zappit to power the next generation of its Amplify mobile advertising platform... More
Toshiba GCS adds Isis SmartTap support to POS system
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions has added support for Isis SmartTap payments to its Ace POS platform... More
PetHub adds NFC to ID tags
PetHub has added NFC to its pet ID tags which are also equipped with a QR code, web address and 24-hour phone number... More
New York City to pilot NFC parking meters
The New York City Department of Transportation is to pilot test PayByPhone‘s mobile payments system, which is already live in San Francisco, Miami, London and Vancouver, in an 18 block area of the Belmont Business Improvement District in the Bronx... More
Harvard Medical School develops NFC medication tracking system
The new technology combines Android tablet PCs with NFC tags attached to patients’ wristbands, medications and nurses’ ID badges and is designed to make the administration of medicines easier, safer, faster and more cost-effective, Dr Adam Landman has told NFC World. More
Adspace to roll out NFC advertising in 140 US shopping malls
The video advertising display owner will be using NFC specialist Blue Bite’s mTag platform to offer advertisers the ability to provide shoppers with access to content downloads, web-based games, promotions and more via NFC and QR codes. More
Hointer adds NFC to next generation store concept
“I think that it is very important for us, as retailers around the world, to reinvent the way customers shop in store,” says the CEO of fashion retailer Hointer, which uses NFC, QR codes and self-checkout to replace traditional shop assistants. “It has lost its edge and has fallen behind online shopping and what it needs is an infusion of sorts; an infusion of technology that I found in NFC.” More
MasterCard unveils MasterPass digital wallet and mobile payments platform
MasterPass covers in-store and online payments, supports both NFC and QR codes and enables “banks, merchants and partners” to offer their own wallets to consumers. More
Scanther offers merchant tags
US startup Scanther is raising funds on Indiegogo for a combined mobile website plus NFC tag package for independent retailers... More
Isis releases Utah mobile payments usage stats
Active users are now paying with Isis five or more times a week, says Jim Stapleton, the NFC payments platform’s chief sales officer. “Consumers actually only need to know about the passcode, and you kind of have a mental ‘Oh!’ right there as they realize their leather wallet does not have a passcode,” he explained. More
US Bank launches iPhone NFC payments service
Customers in Salt Lake City and Portland are being invited to beta test the bank’s new Go Mobile payments service, using an iPhone NFC case that stores a FlexPerks Visa credit card, ahead of a broader launch this year. More
CIA fund backs Tyfone for NFC transactions and cloud security
“Tyfone has an impressive patent portfolio and history of innovation in mobile financial, secure ID management, and NFC solutions,” says Jay Emmanuel, technology VP at IQT. “We believe that Tyfone’s technology has the potential to address a wide range of complex government and commercial secure identity challenges.” More
Christmas app conjures up Santa with an NFC tap
US NFC developer TeamProjectsOnly has come up with a hi-tech and festive way to reward children for good behaviour in the run up to Christmas, using NFC phones and tags. More
Salt Lake Tribune reports on Isis pilot
Salt Lake Tribune reporter Vince Horiuchi has been out and about in the city testing Isis, following the October 2012 launch of the NFC mobile payments venture’s pilots in Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas... More
Bank of America adds V.me
Bank of America has joined a fast growing list of banks announcing support for Visa’s V.me digital wallet service... More
Axiom comes with gWallet
The Samsung Galaxy Axiom, believed to be an LTE version of the Galaxy S III Mini, has become the second handset on US Cellular to support NFC payments with Google Wallet... More
Moneto hits the shops
DeviceFidelity’s NFC mobile wallet solution is now available at MetroPCS stores in the San Francisco Bay Area... More
TransCard to offer white label NFC wallets to US banks
The prepaid card specialist’s 84 financial institution clients will be able to provide customers with mobile wallets based on DeviceFidelity’s Moneto platform, which uses NFC-enabled cases and microSD cards to add mobile payments capabilities to Apple iPhone and Android devices. More
Movaluate values phones with NFC
US phone resale valuation specialist Movaluate is offering to mail buyers and sellers of used mobile phones a free tag, containing an NFC chip and carrying a printed QR code, that can be used to easily generate a report setting out the device’s second hand value... More