The payments network’s new compliance testing system means that Visa can now certify other devices and phones with built-in NFC functionality “in a heartbeat”, the company’s head of mobile product development has told NFC World. More
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NBS Technologies adds support for Tyfone’s SideTap NFC device
NBS Technologies has announced the development of personalization scripts for Tyfone‘s SideTap NFC microSD device, enabling new and existing NBS customers using the company’s UbiQPersoMaster personalization software to support Tyfone’s NFC solution... 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
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
US Bank begins testing microSD based NFC payments service
US Bank has begun a field trial of microSD format NFC devices... More
Monitise, Best Buy Europe and Carphone Warehouse founder to launch Mobile Money Network
NFC is likely to play a key role in the new venture as Monitise has already partnered with Visa and DeviceFidelity to integrate near field communication into its Mobile Money Manager platform. More
Datacard acquires in-branch NFC payments personalization provider
Datacard has acquired Dynamic Card Solutions (DCS), providers of the CardWizard Perso-to-Go instant in-branch card personalization and issuing solution used by 500 banks, predominantly in the US... More
NFC news in brief • 4 Oct 2010
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond, featuring wrist-based NFC • Polish trial declared a success • NFC Forum meeting for developers • Opening doors at a Bahamas hotel • Clinton adviser visits Swedish NFC firm • SK C&C hires five senior staff • and more… More
Visa lets New York commuters pay for their fares with mobile phones
Participants in a new pilot programme can pay for their travel on the Lexington Avenue subway line in New York, on the New Jersey Path system and multiple bus lines in New York and New Jersey with a contactless Visa card or an NFC-enabled mobile phone. More
Monitise adds support for DeviceFidelity’s microSD NFC device to mobile payments platform
Mobile payments provider Monitise has partnered with DeviceFidelity to add support for Visa payWave contactless transactions to its Mobile Money Manager technology platform, used by 250 financial institutions around the world... More
DeviceFidelity adds NFC microSD support for iPhone 4
DeviceFidelity has announced an iPhone 4 version of the NFC-enabling iPhone case it first released in May... More
First Data to offer turnkey NFC service to US banks from early 2011
The payments processing giant has signed a deal with Korea’s SK C&C, responsible for the technology behind SK Telecom’s mobile contactless payments service, and will begin offering a turnkey NFC payments service to US banks from the first quarter of 2011. More
Vivotech adds OTA provisioning to DeviceFidelity’s microSD format NFC device
Vivotech and DeviceFidelity have partnered to add over-the-air (OTA) provisioning capabilities to the In2Pay microSD technology to be tested by Visa, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, US Bank and Akbank... More
Tyfone’s investors explain why they took part in the MicroSD format NFC supplier’s $5m funding round
“The investors who participated in our Series B financing round bring unique expertise within financial services and we’ll benefit from their knowledge beyond the value of their financial investment in Tyfone,” says the company’s CEO. More
Bank of America to run NFC payments trial in New York
Bank of America will begin a field trial next month in partnership with Visa that will enable customers to use their smartphones to pay for purchases in stores, according to a Reuters news report... More
Tyfone picks up $5m investment
NFC specialist Tyfone has raised additional funding of US$4,963,364, according to a newly published SEC filing... More
Turkey’s Akbank and Visa Europe to test microSD NFC device
News of Akbank and Visa’s trial follows the announcement in May that MasterCard, Garanti Bank and mobile network operator Avea are to begin a commercial NFC service in Turkey this summer. More
US Bank to test NFC in Q4 2010
US Bank is to run an NFC pilot from the fourth quarter of 2010, Brandon McGee reports from the Mobile Banking & Emerging Applications Summit in Las Vegas... More
300 million NFC chips to ship in 2015, says ABI
Demand for NFC chips for use in mobile handsets, computer and consumer electronics and mobile handset peripherals will see the world NFC chip market reaching 300m units in 2015, according to a new report from ABI Research... More