China Mobile and China UnionPay have signed an agreement to jointly develop an array of mobile payments products and services, according to Marbridge Consulting. Under the details of the agreement, the partners will collaborate on SIM-based payments for online shopping, bill payments and long distance mobile payments as well as NFC payments at the point […]

Clothing retailer The Gap has completed an NFC-based marketing campaign at its two flagship stores in Tokyo’s Harajuku and Ginza districts, reports Floost.com. The week-long “High Touch” campaign pitted the two stores against each other in a competition to see who could create the best outfits. Customers could vote on their favorite outfits, modeled in-store […]

Oberthur Technologies has completed its acquisition of Boston-based mobile payments company MoreMagic. Announced in February 2012, the acquisition will enable Oberthur and MoreMagic to build a comprehensive suite of mobile commerce and financial services solutions, including a secure mobile wallet infrastructure and an end-to-end NFC system. According to Oberthur, these offers will enable mobile operators, […]

The NFC Forum has announced that Canon, HP, and Yahoo! Japan have joined the organization as Principal members, along with 24 other new Associate, Implementer, and Non-Profit members from across the NFC ecosystem. In addition, Infineon Technologies has raised its level of membership from Associate to Principal, the second-highest level membership in the organization. According […]

Korean smart card solutions provider DUALi announced that its Dragon NFC reader has been certified for NFC Forum Digital Conformance by the Korean certification laboratory KTC. DUALi’s Dragon is a USB-based reader that can support multiple NFC and contactless smart card functions, including payments, loyalty and automatic fare collection. The Dragon can be used as […]

The Phoenix Group, a distributor of point of sale (POS) terminals in the U.S., announced that it will offer Ingenico’s line of NFC-enabled Telium readers to independent sales organizations throughout the U.S. The multi-year distribution agreement allows the group to market and sell Ingenico’s Telium series POS products, including the iPP220 & iPP320 PIN pads, […]

GlobalPlatform has released a new technical specification that prevents unauthorized applications from communicating with the secure element on a mobile device. According to GlobalPlatform, the Secure Element Access Control mechanism ensures that only legitimate secure mobile services, such mobile payments and ticketing applications, are able to connect with the secure element and access the user’s […]

Microsoft has revealed that its forthcoming Windows Phone 8 OS will come with an NFC-enabled mobile wallet app called Wallet Hub. Introduced today at a Windows 8 sneak peek event in San Francisco, Wallet Hub promises to be “the most complete wallet experience,” according to the company. The service will include NFC payments at the […]

Proxama, a UK-based developer of mobile contactless payments and NFC technology, has announced the appointments of Russell West to the company’s mobile wallet division and Stuart Williams as a product business analyst. As head of business development in the mobile wallet sector, Russell West will be responsible for growing partnerships and delivering NFC-enabled payments through […]

UK Mobile operator O2 has chosen the small village of Rhiwbina in South Wales to demonstrate its O2 Wallet mobile payments app. Rhiwbina, whose 11,000 residents have been without a single cash machine for two years, was selected from villages across the UK to gain firsthand experience O2 Wallet’s funds transfer and bar code-based price […]