Apple announced that it’s adding a wallet feature to the latest iOS for iPhones, the company revealed at the Worldwide Developer’s Conference. Users will be able to load airline boarding passes, movie tickets, retail coupons, loyalty cards and others in one place. Once a consumer had downloaded the coupon or ticket it will show up […]

Ericsson has launched an NFC access control pilot at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT ICT) Labs campus in Kista Science City, Sweden. Starting this month, EIT ICT Labs staff, researchers and students will be able to access the Electrum facilities using just an NFC-enabled phone or smart card. Participants will have access […]

Gemalto and nAppliance Networks are launching a new bundled strong authentication solution for the North American market. Gemalto’s Protiva software will be preloaded on the nAppliance hardware security platform, to create a plug-and-play authentication appliance for easy installation and configuration. A step-by-step menu – “wizard-based” – will take IT professionals through a setup which connects […]

Britain’s ICC Solutions Limited, a provider of EMV contact and contactless test and certification products, announced that it has expanded its operations in the U.S., adding technical sales, service and support capabilities. Founded in 1996, British-based ICC Solutions is offering fully qualified test scripts for American Express AEIPS, Discover D-PAS, INTERAC Contact & Flash; M-TIP, […]

Following the successful completion of an NFC pilot at Villanova University, The CBORD Group and Ingersoll Rand are wrapping up a second test, this one at the University of San Francisco. Like the Villanova pilot, the first phase of the USF project involved door access. Additionally, it included payments at laundry terminals. Both access and […]

The Transportation Security Administration wants its inspectors to be able to spot fraudulent IDs or boarding passes without using a magnifying glass. To that end, the TSA has initiated a pilot program to test technologies supplied by three companies. The end goal is for inspectors to spot fake documents via electronic scanning. The first pilot […]

Sprint, the third largest teleco in the U.S., may be planning to launch its own NFC-enabled mobile wallet, called “Touch,” as early as this summer, undisclosed sources have told NFC Times. The move would pit Sprint against a number of competitors in the tightening mobile wallet race, including PayPal, carrier-led Isis, and Google, which currently […]

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) announced it will produce and supply German Olympians with an exclusive dual-interface Visa card for contactless and contact payment. Landesbank Baden-Württemberg will be providing the PAYBACK Top-Class Sports Visa card for Olympic athletes to use as contactless payment wherever the Visa standard for contactless payment – Visa payWave – is accepted. […]

Ericsson, a Sweden-based provider of telecom equipment, has partnered with Aconite to enable banks to deliver and remotely manage contactless mobile payment applications on their customers’ NFC-enabled mobile phones. The solution is based on the integration of Aconite’s Mobile Application Manager with Ericsson’s Trusted Service Manager (TSM) interfaces. It enables an issuer to create a […]

Two New York-area 7-Eleven stores have begun testing NFC-enabled kiosks that let shoppers download coupons and in-store specials with just a tap of their NFC phone, according to Twice.com. Developed by Solekai Systems and Raging Mobile, the kiosk is designed to sit at the store entrance so that users can “check-in” to receive offers to […]