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Archive: Newswire
Parkeur uses NFC to ease the pain of parking in busy urban areas
A team from French science engineering graduate school Polytech’Marseille has been shortlisted in the 2010 Simagine awards for an NFC application designed to ease the pain of parking in busy urban areas... More
Gemalto adds mobile coupons to its NFC products
Gemalto has announced a partnership with leading coupon specialist HighCo that will see the company adding mobile coupons to its NFC Trusted Service Manager (TSM) offering... More
Industry players to develop standardized NFC API for Android devices
Trusted Logic has announced a new initiative to provide an open, standardized API for building NFC functionality into Android devices... More
Over 1bn consumers to use mobile banking services by 2015
The global customer base for mobile banking will reach 1.1bn by the year 2015, according to a new report from Global Industry Analysts... More
Zapa adds mobile loyalty application to contactless stickers
Zapa Technology has partnered with Mobiun to enable users of its mobile loyalty system to check and manage loyalty points they have collected via their mobile handsets... More
Veolia Transport appoints Trusted Labs to validate NFC applications
Veolia Transport has appointed Trusted Labs to validate the company’s NFC transport application, which will be deployed as part of the Nice NFC City pre-commercial pilot due to take place from the second quarter of 2010... More
Inside Contactless to supply Cosyphone’s NFC technology
The near field communication functionality in Sagem Wireless’ Cosyphone, a new NFC handset designed for the over 50s, is being supplied by Inside Contactless... More
Cybercom develops NFC solution for parking meters and vending machines
Swedish technology consultancy Cybercom has developed an NFC-based mobile wallet solution aimed at enabling mobile payments at parking meters, stores and vending machines... More
Toro and G&D to develop microSD-based secure financial services
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has teamed up with Hong Kong-based NFC specialist Toro to develop a range of mobile financial applications based on G&D’s microSD format Mobile Security Card and Toro’s Akami mobile platform... More
G&D to enable PIN-protected transactions on NFC phones
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is demonstrating a prototype of a complete security platform for mobile handsets, designed to enable a range of services including PIN-protected mobile payments, at the Mobile World Congress... More
Gemalto adds Mifare DESFire to NFC phones
Gemalto has announced it has implemented NXP’s Mifare DESFire transport ticketing solution on a SIM card for the first time, enabling NFC phones to be used to replace tickets on the forty transport systems around the world that have implemented the high security ticketing system to date... More
NFC trial begins at Mobile World Congress
Four hundred Samsung Star NFC handsets are being distributed to selected Mobile World Congress attendees for use at the event, which opens in Barcelona today... More
NFC bus ticketing trial to take place in Madrid
An NFC bus ticketing pilot is to be run in Madrid, Spain by Bankinter and Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid (EMT), beginning in mid-2010... More
US firm to offer Chinese RF SIM system worldwide
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
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
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
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