French bank Crédit Agricole has picked Gemalto to help deploy its NFC mobile payment solutions in Nice. As part of the “Nice, Ville NFC” initiative, Crédit Agricole Provence Côte d’Azur will offer its customers contactless mobile payment services at stores in the Nice Côte d’Azur urban community. Gemalto will supply its Trusted Service Management operated […]

General Patent Corporation announced on behalf of its subsidiary, Leighton Technologies LLC, that it has settled a lawsuit with CPI Card Group-Colorado over the use of Leighton’s contactless card patent portfolio. General Patent Corporation had initially contacted CPI claiming infringement of the Leighton patent portfolio. In response CPI filed an action for declaratory judgment in […]

TSYS has entered into a partnership with Singapore-based CASSIS International to provide secure mobile payment, loyalty and commerce functionality. Globally certified by Visa and MasterCard, CASSIS is a mobile trusted service manager (TSM) for banks, retailers, transit operators and mobile service providers, while TSYS offers electronic payment services in credit, debit, prepaid, NFC mobile, chip […]

INSIDE Secure has launched a new version of its Open NFC protocol stack geared toward Google Android 2.3 (aka GIngerbread). The first of its kind for Gingerbread, INSIDE’s Open NFC version 4.2 offers chip vendors, smart phone manufacturers, wireless carriers and software developers a way to implement NFC independently of underlying NFC hardware, as well […]

Leaked specs of two brand-new BlackBerry handsets shows RIM is serious about NFC. According to Top10.com, both the Monaco Touch and Sedona handsets will be NFC-equipped when they hit stores in late summer 2011. In addition to NFC, the Monaco Touch will feature a 3.7 in touch screen, 4GB of internal memory, a five megapixel […]

GAO Embedded has announced the release of a new UHF development kit designed for contactless financial transactions and encrypted authentication. The development kit, model 726001, contains an M9 CF (Compact Flash) module, a common blade interface board, a UHF external antenna, a sample tag kit, demo software and software libraries. The kit also offers RS-232 […]

Visa has signed a deal with UK-based mobile money solutions provider Monitise to roll out mobile contactless payments across Europe, according to nma.co.uk. The deal, which builds on Visa’s €500 million investment in mobile banking technology, will see the partners develop and deploy large-scale mobile services, including payment, peer-to-peer money transfers and text alerts for […]

Vix Technology France is supplying the French cities of Brest, Lorient and Quimper with three different fare collection systems, all based on a single regional interoperable “KORRIGO” card. Brest has chosen a mixed system composed of magnetic tickets and KORRIGO contactless cards. These media will be validated on Vix’s V6000 validators installed in city’s 165 […]

German test equipment provider COMPRION and French NFC consulting specialist MONETECH are partnering to provide French customers with contactless test tools and consulting services for debugging and diagnosing errors in NFC solutions. The new test service, designed for companies who use NFC services but don’t have the internal resources to run thorough maintenance, includes an […]

INSIDE Secure has announced the availability of biometric on-card matching capabilities for its SecuRead system-in-package NFC solution. Based on advanced fingerprint identification software from Neurotechnology running on the SecuRead secure element, the new solution enables manufacturers of mobile NFC devices to provide two-factor security for a variety of mobile applications, including payment. The solution will […]