Peet’s Coffee & Tea, a Calif.-based specialty coffee and tea retail chain, has announced that it will begin accepting MasterCard PayPass contactless payments at all of its company-owned locations by the end of October 2011. The roll out, which will encompass all 193 Peet’s locations nationwide, will support both contactless PayPass credit and debit cards, […]

Cetecom ICT Services and Collis have teamed up to develop VDV-KA Test Tools and a VDV-KA Test Lab for VDV-Kernapplikations GmbH & Co. KG’s (VDV KA KG) eTicketing project in Germany. According to Collis, the tools and lab ensure the compliance of all core application (KA) systems in the version 1.106 with the German eTicket […]

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) and Sitronics Smart Technologies (SST) are teaming up to manufacture and personalize NFC-capable SIM cards for a mobile payment system in Russia. The first of it’s kind in Russia, the solution will enable customers of leading Mobile TeleSystems, a leading Russian MNO, to tap and pay for gas at Lukoil service […]

RIM has unveiled a new contactless content-sharing system for NFC-enabled BlackBerry smart phones, according to Silicon.com. “BlackBerry Tag” will enable users to share contact info, documents, URLs, photos and other media by simply tapping their NFC-enabled BlackBerry handsets together. The service will also connect to BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), allowing users to tap phones to add […]

Merchant360, Health Portal Solutions, and CliniCard have teamed up to create a patient identification and payments system using NFC technology. Dubbed PatientID+, the solution enables health care providers to quickly perform identity verification, eligibility screening, and payment at intake by simply swiping the patient’s information from their PatientID+ NFC card or NFC-enabled phone. The patient […]

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) expects to award a contract for its long-awaited contactless fare payments system this month, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. The $100 million system will enable some 3.9 million people in and around Philadelphia to use contactless credit or debit cards, as well as SEPTA smart cards and mobile phones, […]

Vodafone Italia has teamed up with CartaSi to offer customers a prepaid card that can be used to purchase goods via NFC technology. Launched with the support of MasterCard and l’Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane, Vodafone’s Smart Pass card can be used for both contactless payments at PayPass-enabled points of sale, as well as […]

SMRT corporation, Singapore’s second largest public transit operator, has announced the launch of new NFC-enabled ‘iMobSMRT’ media hubs in SMRT stations around Singapore. According to SMRT, the iMobSMRT stations enables Singapore’s more than 2 million commuters to access services such as taxi bookings with just a tap of an NFC phone against a tag. Users […]

Subway, the world’s largest sandwich chain, has announced it will begin accepting MasterCard PayPass contactless payments at more than 7,000 U.S. locations by the end of the first quarter of 2012. The new system will enable customers to simply tap their PayPass-enabled MasterCard card, mobile phone, key fob or any other device on a contactess […]

Meridian Health, iMPak Health and T-Mobile have announced the successful deployment of their NFC-enabled SleepTrak sleep monitoring system. The system uses a SleepTrack card, a credit card-sized wireless device that is secured in a band worn around the upper arm, that tracks and monitors the user’s sleep habits through actigraphy, a widely used test method […]