Toppan Forms and TF Payment Service (TFPS) have partnered to add an NFC twist to the “re:new Tohoku” exhibition in London’s Asia House. The exhibit, which wrapped up yesterday, featured a variety of Japanese made products including furniture, cookware and other hand-crafted goods from areas affected by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Each item […]

Isis, the mobile payments joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, is gearing up for its summer launch with a new series YouTube videos explaining how to use their mobile wallet solution. The eight tutorials cover everything from loading cards onto the wallet and redeeming offers to a step by step guide on how to […]

Gemalto announced that its Trusted Service Management (TSM) data center in Singapore achieved Visa and MasterCard certification, enabling Gemalto customers to securely distribute Visa and MasterCard mobile payment services to their end users. The Singapore center is Gemalto’s third global center alongside existing sites in the U.S. and France. The center is now operational to […]

Paydiant, provider of a cloud-based, white label mobile payments platform, has announced the closing of a $12 million round of Series B funding. The funding was led by Stage 1 Ventures, whose Managing Director, David Baum, will join Paydiant’s board of directors. The round also included existing investors North Bridge Venture Partners and General Catalyst […]

The New York Public Library provided contactless wristbands to guests at its 2012 Opening Night Gala that enabled them to instantly “like” any one of the 30,000 different cocktails served. One of the main events of annual Manhattan Cocktail Classic, the Opening Night Gala was held at the library’s Bryant Park branch and featured over […]

China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile network operator, is set to launch its first NFC-enabled mobile phone, reports NFC World. Slated to launch in the third quarter of 2012, the handset will be a version of Yulong’s Coolpad 8870 running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS. The dual GSM/TD-SCDMA device will support a number of NFC […]

Wireless device manufacturer Parrot has unveiled a pair of NFC-enabled wireless headphones. The new Zik headphones feature an NFC chip embedded in the left ear cup, enabling the user to establish a Bluetooth connection with other NFC-enabled devices with a simple tap. For example, users can tap their NFC phone against their Zik headphones to […]

Apple has been awarded a U.S. patent for an NFC-enabled transportation check-in system, according to Patently Apple. The system, called iTravel, works with iOS devices such as iPhones and iPads to store identification information and transfer it to a another electronic device via NFC. According to Patently Apple, a mobile device with iTravel could be […]

DeviceFidelity has been granted a patent from the European Patent Office for its NFC payments technology. Patent number 2196010 describes the technology behind DeviceFidelity’s iCaisse NFC external accessory for the iPhone, iPad or similar devices. The patent covers multiple configurations of the external NFC accessory, including an embedded or a removable Secure Element as well […]

Mobile payments have more than doubled in popularity over the past year to reach over 33% of U.S. residents, according to IDC Financial Insights’ eighth annual Consumer Payments Survey. Of those survey respondents that had made a mobile payment, more than half used PayPal Mobile (56%), followed by Amazon Payments and Apple’s iTunes at about […]