2012 is meant to be “the year of the contactless payment,” however a number of industry analysts believe that the technology is failing and, in turn, costing the consumer money, according to This is Money. Reports estimate that the cost of developing, installing and maintaining contactless terminals will be left for the consumers to deal […]
05 Mar, 2012Contactless card payments not doing as well as some may like
05 Mar, 2012VeriFone to integrate Isis support in terminals nationwide
VeriFone Systems announced that it will integrate the Isis Mobile Commerce Application into its current and future NFC-enabled point of sale products. Through the delivery of new payment systems, NFC add-on devices and remote software upgrades, VeriFone will bring Isis-powered mobile contactless payments to hundreds of thousands of merchant locations across the U.S. VeriFone currently […]
05 Mar, 2012Sprint to launch 10 Google Wallet-ready phones in 2012
Google has announced that mobile operator Sprint Nextel will launch an array of new phones with support for Google Wallet this year, reports FierceMobile. Speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Google Wallet Vice President Osama Bedier said that customers can expect to see Google Wallet on “at least ten” new Sprint phones in […]
05 Mar, 2012Target, Walmart et al. to make their own mobile wallets
Some two dozen retailers, including heavyweights Walmart and Target, are preparing their own mobile wallet services in lieu of existing solutions like Google Wallet, Isis and PayPal, according to the Wall Street Journal. Citing security concerns and disappointment with existing systems’ rewards and offers features, these retailers are intent on building a better system of […]
05 Mar, 2012Episode 91: MasterCard elaborates on road map
EMV is the future of payments but MasterCard doesn’t want to stop there, says Colin McGrath, vice president of development in U.S. Markets at the payments company. “We very much see this path and this evolution as really about enabling the next generation of payments,” McGrath tells Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan. “It’s about providing a […]
02 Mar, 2012StumbleUpon adds NFC to Android app
StumbleUpon, the Web discovery platform, has announced that it will add NFC sharing capabilities to its mobile app on Android 4.0 devices. According to TechCrunch, the app will leverage Android Beam, Android 4.0’s built in sharing feature, enabling users to share their StumbleUpon discoveries by tapping their phones together. StumbleUpon currently boasts 20 million registered […]
02 Mar, 2012PKI token meets Brazilian compliance standards
Brazil’s National Institute of Information Technology (ITI) has granted NSH-1 compliance for ICP-Brazil to Watchdata Technologies’ WatchKey USB PKI security token. This is the first USB PKI security token on the market to meet the ITI standards. ITI’s standards for Brazilian PKI for cryptographic tokens operate under the ICP-Brazil’s Root-CA certification authority. All cryptographic products […]