“The consumer benefits of contactless payments are obvious,” says Christian Wirtz, m-commerce director for Vodafone Group. “The potential of mobile to transform existing industries — such as financial services, retail and transport — is enormous.” More
- Bank of China lets taxi drivers accept central bank digital currency payments on NFC mobile phones
- Juniper forecasts 25% increase in POS terminal transaction values by 2028
- STMicroelectronics launches NFC tag chip with elliptic curve cryptography
- NFC Forum survey finds majority of consumers now prefer making payments with their mobile phone
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Inside Secure reports Q3 2012 results
Inside Secure generated revenues of US$28.6m during the third quarter of 2012, the chip maker reports, up 1% on sales during the second quarter of 2012 but 22% down on the third quarter of 2011. More
Stollmann adds support for Texas Instruments NFC chips
Software stack specialist Stollmann has expanded its NFC stack to include support for Texas Instruments’ TI TRF79xx family of NFC chips. More
Project Oscar opens for business as ‘Weve’
The mobile commerce joint venture between UK carriers EE, O2 and Vodafone is to be called Weve and will initially focus on mobile advertising solutions, with NFC payments to follow later. More
G&D debuts white label mobile wallet
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has introduced SmartTrust Portigo, a three part white label mobile wallet solution “for NFC services and beyond” that includes: More
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Inside Secure launches multi-owner secure element
“With the availability of the VaultSecure IC, smartphone manufacturers, mobile network operators and other trusted third parties can co-own the SE and install, personalize and administer their own open- or closed-loop payment, access control, transit, loyalty or other secure applets,” says Inside’s Pierre Garnier. More
Samsung updates TecTiles NFC app
The phone maker’s tag reading/writing app for Android devices now allows users to program tags to perform multiple actions at one time, customize profiles so that tags perform in different ways for different users, and lock a tag so that only the owner can read its contents. More
Gemalto to announce major deal with Vodafone?
Vodafone Group is set to sign a five year contract with Gemalto, The Wall Street Journal reports, for “technology for a mobile payment service planned for launch next year”. The deal is expected to be announced next week. More
NFC in Access Control webinar: See it now on NFC World
383 people registered to attend NFC World’s latest webinar — and participants gave it an overall rating of 4.2 out of five. More
Crowd funds iPhone NFC add-on
Miami-based NFC specialist Flomio has turned to crowdfunding to finance production of a plug-in device that will bring NFC to Apple’s iPhone and iPad... More
GigaOm: Isis awareness low
The Isis pilot launch has been “softer than a goose down pillow”, says GigaOm’s Stacey Higginbotham, who has been checking out the service in Austin, Texas and found that merchant awareness of the NFC payments system is currently quite low... More
Isobar and Proxama partner on NFC in the UK
Digital agency Isobar has partnered with Proxama to offer NFC marketing campaigns to its UK clients. More
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Cirque offers NFC trackpad kit
Capacitive touch technology specialist Cirque has introduced an evaluation kit for its GlidePoint NFC solution, which integrates an NFC antenna directly into the trackpad on a laptop or other personal computing device... More
BNL begins Rome NFC pilot
Italian bank BNL, part of the BNP Paribas group, has begun an NFC payments pilot in Rome... More
RBC to launch NFC in Canada
Royal Bank of Canada is preparing to launch a mobile wallet service “within the next month”, the bank’s Dave McKay has told Reuters. More
Google sued over NFC patent
Peter Sprogis, a co-founder of NFC pioneer MoLo Rewards, is suing Google for allegedly infringing US Patent No... More
Telecom Italia begins NFC pilot in Milan
Participants in the trial can use their NFC phones on Milan’s public transport network, in around 1,000 stores and to access interactive information services. More
Citi Hungary adds NFC stickers
Citibank Hungary has begun offering contactless stickers to holders of its Citi Life, Shell Citibank and Magyar Telekom Citibank cards... More
Beats launches NFC speaker
Beats Electronics has introduced the Beats Pill, a portable wireless speaker with built-in NFC. More
Google to update gWallet
Google Wallet is set for a further update and users can request an invite today. More