Employee ID card leader HID Global and Inside Contactless have partnered to offer support for HID’s iClass vicinity card technology to NFC phones... More
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Gemalto provides KDDI with end-to-end NFC security solution
Gemalto has provided further details of the role it is playing in Japanese mobile network operator KDDI‘s extensive NFC field test, which went live last month... More
T-Mobile begins internal NFC payments and access control trial in Czech Republic
Mobile network operator T-Mobile Czech Republic has begun testing NFC at its offices in the Czech Republic... More
G&D and ARM to develop mobile device security solutions
ARM and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) have announced a strategic partnership aimed at the development of highly secure mobile phone platforms... More
Gemalto acquires mobile authentication leader Valimo Wireless
Gemalto has acquired Valimo Wireless, the world leader in mobile authentication... More
Sagem Wireless to add fingerprint verification to new range of mobile phones
Sagem Wireless has formed a partnership with Upek to bring fingerprint identity capabilities to a range of new devices that it plans to launch later this year, including new Android-based mobile devices... More
Banks and mobile operators to go head to head for NFC mobile payments business
Banks and mobile network operators are set to go head to head in a bid to control the market for NFC mobile payments services, according to a new research report published today... More
Bundesdruckerei plans to link NFC and electronic identity cards
The German security documents group is to work with the NFC Forum to harmonise eID and NFC standards so that mobile phones can enable electronic ID cards to be used as proof of identity for secure transactions on the internet. More
Reslink signs up new distributors in the UK and Southeast Asia
Two more companies have signed up to become resellers of the Finnish workforce management solutions specialist’s NFC-based time and attendance and location-sensitive data capture solutions. More
Dutch think tank reports on the impact of NFC and consumer data privacy issues
When it comes to designing NFC ecosystems, solutions that appear to be logical and beneficial for the actors involved may not prove to be in the customers’ best interests, says a new report by Dutch technology think tank Rathenau Institute More
NTT to trial technology that stores loyalty cards on mobile phones
NTT’s new patent pending Key-Shuttle platform enables loyalty points, ID photos and other membership information from over a hundred retailers to all be registered and accessed from a customers’ mobile phone. More