Alcatel-Lucent has signed an agreement to integrate Cassis International‘s Trusted Service Manager (TSM) solution with its Mobile Wallet Service, enabling the company to offer mobile network operators the ability to provide a full range of secure NFC applications to service providers and their customers. 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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Patent application hints at Nokia’s business model for NFC
A patent application authored by two senior Nokia executives shows how the handset manufacturer could generate revenues from the NFC phones it plans to introduce next year — without needing to get involved in mainstream mobile payments and without mobile network operators needing to invest in NFC SIMs or back office systems. More
HID Global launches range of mobile contactless stickers
HID Global has announced that its family of contactless payment and identification cards are now available in a mobile sticker format. More
Samsung enters NFC controller market
Korean electronics giant Samsung has entered the NFC controller market with a chip the company says offers a comparative 20% power saving. More
Bell ID, PPC and Vivotech launch turnkey European TSM service
Bell ID, PPC Card Systems and Vivotech have teamed up to provide European mobile network operators, banks and service providers with a turnkey solution they can use to offer mobile application provisioning and Trusted Service Manager (TSM) services to their client base. More
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Inside Contactless announces combined NFC controller and embedded secure element package
The NFC and contactless specialist has teamed up with Infineon and Giesecke & Devrient to provide handset manufacturers with a single package that includes both an NFC controller and an embedded secure element. More
Discover begins national roll out of contactless stickers
Discover Financial Services has begun issuing Discover Zip contactless credit cards and stickers to select cardholders. Further cards and stickers will be issued from January 2011 and cardholders interested in receiving one can now apply by simply calling 1-800-DISCOVER. More
NFC news in brief • 29 Nov 2010
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: PingPing adds Coca-Cola • Indian banks offer mobile payments • GSMA investigates embedded SIMs • VeriFone buys Hypercom • Brands test Google Goggles • 500m to use mobile medical apps by 2015 • CPI hits 100M contactless cards • and more… More
MegaFon subscribers to use NFC stickers on St Petersburg subway
Russian mobile network operator MegaFon has announced it is to issue NFC-compatible contactless stickers that subscribers will be able to use to pay for St Petersburg Metro tickets, the St Petersburg Times reports: More
Ericsson IPX introduces next-generation NFC TSM service
The company aims to kickstart commercial NFC services by acting as a broker between mobile network operators and service providers — Ericsson IPX plans to pay operators to rent space on their SIM cards and then sub-let it to a range of service providers. More
DBS, StarHub and EZ-Link to begin Singapore NFC pilot in December
The bank, mobile network operator and transport card issuer will be using Gemalto’s N-Flex NFC add-on and plan to launch commercial services towards the end of 2011. More
RIM seeks NFC test engineer
A job vacancy posted on Research In Motion’s recruitment website suggests that the BlackBerry maker is now actively involved in the development of NFC-enabled mobile phones. More
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NFC Business Models: Just 48 hours left to save 25% on our new research report
Just a short housekeeping message: I wanted to let you know that the pre-publication special offer on our latest research report, NFC Business Models, expires tomorrow. More
Think&Go NFC offers innovators 300 free devices for use in pilots
Think&Go NFC has launched a call for NFC innovators to apply for up to 300 NFC devices to use in near field communication pilot tests. The devices will include Morpho’s NFC Mobile Wallet, TwinLinx’s MyMax sticker and WDI’s iCarte for iPhone as well as NFC phones. More
Sprint investigating multiple mobile payment options
Mobile network operator Sprint, the only major US operator not involved in the new Isis NFC payments project, says it is now looking at a number of different ways to offer mobile payments — in collaboration with banks and other card issuers rather than in competition with them. More
NXP and Gemalto sign Mifare NFC licensing deal
NXP Semiconductors and Gemalto have signed a global strategic licensing agreement for NXP’s Mifare technology which will enable Gemalto to integrate both Mifare DESFire and Mifare Plus into its SIM cards. More
Bank of America to issue contactless stickers next year
Bank of America plans to issue contactless stickers to its credit and debit card customers next year, PaymentsSource reports: More
Wima 2011 call for papers: Closing date for submissions is 3 December
The deadline for submitting papers for consideration for presentations at next year’s Wima conference, to be held in Monaco in April, is 3 December. More
DeviceFidelity adds NFC support for Android and Mifare
DeviceFidelity has announced that its In2Pay microSD format NFC devices can now be used in Android phones. More
Tyfone picks up another patent, shows off NFC on Androids
NFC-on-microSD specialist Tyfone has been granted another patent that covers its use of memory cards as an NFC-enabler in mobile phones. More