VeriFone Systems has unveiled its new Sail mobile point of sale solution for merchants who want to accept NFC and EMV payments on their mobile phones or tablets. Like with Square’s mobile point of sale reader, the Sail device plugs directly into the headphone jack of an iOS or Android mobile phone. Sail can also […]

Mobile operator 2degrees has partnered with contactless transit card provider Snapper to bring NFC payments to the city of Wellington, New Zealand. The new “Touch2Pay” service is now available on 2degrees’ LG Optimus Net phones, which can be used to make tap and go payments wherever Snapper cards are accepted, including buses, taxis, shops and […]

Samsung and Visa are providing their sponsored athletes and trialists at the London 2012 Olympic Games with special edition Samsung Galaxy S III handsets equipped with Visa’s payWave NFC payments application. According to Visa, the Olympic handsets will enable athletes to make contactless mobile payments at thousands of retailers around London with just a tap […]

Verizon Wireless and HTC have launched a new NFC-enabled handset, the Droid Incredible 4G LTE. Powered by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the phone features a 4-inch super LCD qHD display, 8 megapixel rear-facing camera, 1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor and built-in NFC connectivity. Since the Droid Incredible runs on Android 4.0, users […]

MasterCard has announced PayPass Wallet Services, a new global offering for banks, merchants and partners that will enable customers to make purchases in stores or online using a smart phone or tablet. PayPass Wallet Services includes three distinct components: PayPass Acceptance Network (PayPass Online and PayPass Contactless), PayPass Wallet and PayPass API. PayPass Acceptance Network […]

NFC payment solutions provider DeviceFidelity has expanded its management team with the hiring of Fabrice Jogand-Coulomb as vice president of Product Management and Philippe Martineau as vice president of Business Development. Based out of Aix-en-Provence, France, Fabrice Jogand-Coulomb comes to DeviceFidelity from Sandisk where he was the director of Marketing for Mobile Solutions, in charge […]

Auriemma Consulting Group is set to launch a comprehensive consumer study on the future of the mobile wallet. The study comprises an overview of the current state of the UK mobile wallet space and attempts to answer “What comes next?” after launch. To determine the next stage of the mobile wallet, the study examines the […]

Singapore, Canada, the United States, Kenya and South Korea have topped MasterCard’s newly released Mobile Payments Readiness Index (MPRI), an analysis of 34 countries and their readiness to use three types of mobile payments: person to person, mobile Web commerce and NFC-enabled mobile contactless payments at the point of sale. According to MasterCard, each market […]

16 million NFC SIM cards were shipped in 2011, according to the latest annual report from the SIMalliance, a SIM card trade association. This marks the first time that NFC-enabled SIMs have been shipped in large enough quantities to be included separately in the SIMalliance annual data, according to the organization. The report also found […]

RIM has revealed a new NFC sharing app for BlackBerry handsets at BlackBerry World in Orlando, Fla. According to Pocket-lint, BlackBerry Share enables users with NFC-enabled handsets to share apps with each other by simply tapping the two phones together. Once a connection has been made, each user will be presented with a list of […]