DeviceFidelity has signed up the first licensees for its microSD format NFC solution, UK mobile payments provider Monitise and US mobile solutions provider Ecrio, and has announced version 2 of its In2Pay product, adding support for EMV compliant payment applications and for Mifare ticketing applications... More
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China Unicom to launch world’s first commercial single wire protocol based NFC service
The mobile operator has signed up five Chinese banks and five transport operators for the commercial launch of its NFC service, scheduled to take place during the second quarter of 2010. More
Parkeur uses NFC to ease the pain of parking in busy urban areas
A team from French science engineering graduate school Polytech’Marseille has been shortlisted in the 2010 Simagine awards for an NFC application designed to ease the pain of parking in busy urban areas... More
Veolia Transport appoints Trusted Labs to validate NFC applications
Veolia Transport has appointed Trusted Labs to validate the company’s NFC transport application, which will be deployed as part of the Nice NFC City pre-commercial pilot due to take place from the second quarter of 2010... More
Gemalto adds Mifare DESFire to NFC phones
Gemalto has announced it has implemented NXP’s Mifare DESFire transport ticketing solution on a SIM card for the first time, enabling NFC phones to be used to replace tickets on the forty transport systems around the world that have implemented the high security ticketing system to date... More
NFC bus ticketing trial to take place in Madrid
An NFC bus ticketing pilot is to be run in Madrid, Spain by Bankinter and Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid (EMT), beginning in mid-2010... More
US firm to offer Chinese RF SIM system worldwide
The RF SIM payments system developed by Chinese firm Trunkbow, in which VeriFone became an investor yesterday, is to be launched worldwide via US start-up MobilePay, the company’s chairman Rick May tells NFC World... More
China Telecom begins RF SIM trial
The country’s third largest mobile network operator is testing non-NFC standard RF SIM technology in Shanghai, where China Unicom is already running an NFC trial. More
Paris transport operators begin NFC ticketing trial
The six month trial will see 1,000 commuters replacing their current travel pass with a dedicated NFC device supplied by Neowave. More
China Mobile begins commercial rollout of mobile contactless payments system
RF SIMs are now widely available for subscribers to purchase from China Mobile stores and the first major retailer has signed up to accept the new mobile contactless payments technology. More
Card and chip suppliers to offer open transport ticketing standard
Infineon, Giesecke & Devrient, Oberthur Technologies and Inside Contactless have teamed up to support the creation of an open security standard for mobile and chip-based transport tickets. More
15 billion mobile tickets to be delivered in 2014
A new study by Juniper Research has forecast that nearly 15 billion tickets will be delivered to subscribers’ mobile devices worldwide by 2014, compared to just over two billion this year... 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
UK government to fund switch to NFC-compatible transport ticketing
The Department for Transport is providing £20m in funding over the next five years to enable nine of England’s largest urban areas to make the switch to NFC-compatible transport ticketing systems. More
Vodafone tests NFC with Spanish railway operator
Vodafone Spain has announced it is conducting an NFC pilot in Madrid with Spanish rail operator Renfe, with the aim of speeding up access to train stations during peak travel times... More
DeviceFidelity launches low cost microSD-based NFC solution
In2Pay is designed to be distributed to customers using a card issuer’s existing personalisation and distribution infrastructure and can include multiple applications such as payments and transit or payments and access control. More
Transport and mobile operators begin NFC pilot in Lisbon
The Portuguese capital’s transport operators have begun a small scale NFC test in conjunction with three mobile operators, beginning on the Lisbon subway and with plans to expand to rail and bus services soon. More
Deutsche Bahn opens registration for next phase of NFC ticketing project
Registration is now open for travellers wishing to take part in the next phase of German rail operator Deutsche Bahn‘s NFC ticketing pilot... More
GlobalPlatform launches transportation task force
GlobalPlatform has set up a Transportation Task Force with the aim of actively contributing to the evolution of smart ticketing solutions... More
New York’s MTA to accept contactless bank cards for bus and subway fare payments
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has announced plans to enable passengers to use contactless debit or credit cards to pay for bus and subway fares by 2014... More