“MasterCard is providing a programmer-friendly set of functions that make it easy for application developers to rapidly deliver payment apps to consumers – without having to become smart card programming experts,” says the payments network. More
Chip and pin standards body EMVCo and the NFC Forum have agreed to work together to optimise the development and testing process for NFC devices... More
Fime has become the first company to be authorised by Isis to certify products, including mobile handsets and secure elements, for the US NFC venture... More
Test lab RFI Global has been accredited to perform Visa mobile product testing... More
Test equipment specialist Comprion has introduced a testing solution that simulates complex over-the-air (OTA) use cases so that communication errors can be detected before service rollouts... More
Hardware manufacturer Duali’s Dragon NFC reader has become the first product to achieve NFC Forum certification in Korea... More
NFC and contactless specialist Inside Secure has announced that its MicroRead solution has become the first NFC controller chip design to be certified by the NFC Forum... More
NFC phones developed by HTC, Intel, LG Electronics, Nokia, RIM, Samsung and Sony have all now been certified for contactless payments — and have the right to carry a new ‘MasterCard PayPass Ready’ logo. More
The NFC Forum has appointed TÜV SÜD to provide its worldwide RF analogue test tool validation service... More
NFC and secure transaction testing and advisory firm Collis has been acquired by UL, a safety science company with 9,000 employees in more than 100 countries... More
Testing and certification specialists Raisonance and Soliatis have merged to form a new company called Keolabs that will offer end-to-end testing and certification solutions for smart cards and secure components on a global basis... More
Mobile test equipment specialist Comprion has released an NFC testing solution that can be used in-store to check a device’s NFC functionality... More
Testing tool specialist Collis has launched a test suite that can be used to perform functional testing of NFC payments applications based on the Visa Mobile Contactless Payment Specifications (VMCPS)... More
The NFC Forum is to hold a public exhibition of NFC technology during its quarterly members’ meeting in Frankfurt next week... More
“The difference in NFC tag performance was both significant and surprising,” says the NFC tag provider, and there was one clear winner in terms of overall performance. More
“With our unique kit, vendors and card issuers will now be able to see for themselves how NFC contactless payments will impact on their customers,” says Proxama CEO Neil Garner. More
Clear2Pay has released its MPA Test Solution test tool, used to confirm that new mobile payment applications comply with industry standards... More
Mobile test equipment specialist Comprion’s UT3 platform for single wire protocol (SWP) and host controller interface (HCI) NFC conformance testing has been approved by the Global Certification Forum (GCF)... More
The NFC Forum has chosen to use Broadcom‘s recently announced BCM2079x NFC controller chips to validate its NFC device certification test suite... More
Carriers and banks around the world can now use the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and the BlackBerry Curve 9360 smartphones to deliver MasterCard-approved NFC mobile payments services. More