Connecthings has announced that it will deploy NFC-based information services in the cities of Barcelona, Hamburg, Rio de Janeiro and Derry, Northern Ireland. The four cities are launching NFC services as part of the Living Labs Global Awards, a project that involves 21 cities over five continents seeking to solve issues in areas as diverse […]

Jersey Mike’s Subs has seen its NFC-enabled Sub Club Rewards Program leap to more than 200,000 users nationwide since its debut last month, according to QSRWeb. The loyalty program uses both traditional bar code based membership cards as well as a mobile NFC-enabled sticker that can be tapped against a reader to earn points towards […]

GlobalPlatform is hosting two one-day seminars in Beijing and Tokyo on how the mobile industry is coming together to standardize secure application execution in mobile handsets. The seminars, titled “Leveraging GlobalPlatform Specifications to Develop Secure Applications on Mobile Devices,” are free to attend and are scheduled to take place on July 10 in Tokyo and […]

Nine out of 10 previous users of contactless mobile payments are likely to use the technology again in the near future, according to eDigitalResearch’s new Mobile Payment Index study. The survey also found that, of those that have the NFC technology enabled of their smart phone device, 47% have already used it to make a […]

Vantiv is now offering Ingenico’s NFC and EMV-enabled Telium series point-of-sale products to its financial institutions and merchant customers in the U.S. The Telium readers, which are equipped with Vantiv’s own point-to-point card data encryption solution (P2PE), will help the Vantiv’s U.S. clients make the jump to EMV chip-based and NFC mobile payments, according to […]

Google closed the deal on acquiring Motorola Mobility, according to the company’s official blog. In announcing the buy, Google CEO Larry Page hinted that Google will use Motorola to expand its Google Wallet mobile commerce service. “It’s a well known fact that people tend to overestimate the impact technology will have in the short term, […]

France’s Toulouse-Blagnac Airport is gearing up to test a new service that lets passengers check-in, access their departure gates and pass through other controlled areas using just an NFC-enabled mobile phone. The trial, which involves partners SITA, Orange, and BlackBerry, will launch this summer with 50 selected passengers using their BlackBerry smart phones equipped with […]

Identive Group announced tomPAY, an NFC-enabled sticker tag that can be affixed to existing mobile phones to enable contactless payments. Based on Identive’s tom (tag on metal) smart inlay technology, tomPAY is manufactured using the same processes as an ISO PVC card. When placed on a phone, tomPAY enables contactless mobile payments in compliance with […]

C-SAM, a U.S.-based provider of secure mobile transactions technology, has announced a joint initiative with MasterCard to offer a white label mobile wallet solution to mobile operators, retail banks and payment providers in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. According to C-SAM, the solution will be based on the company’s Mobile Transaction Platform (MTP) and […]

Chinese handset manufacturer ZTE has partnered with Turkcell, Turkey’s largest mobile operator, to offer a new SIM-based NFC mobile device for the Turkish market. The Turkcell T11 handset (aka the ZTE Racer II) can be used to pay for both highway toll payments and items at the point of sale with a simple tap against […]