The European Payments Council (EPC) has released a final draft of its guidelines for mobile contactless transactions in the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa), according to Finextra. The EPC says the guidelines are designed to expedite the development and implementation of NFC mobile solutions, while avoiding the development of proprietary solutions with limited geographical reach. […]

Merchant360, a point of sale application developer specializing in NFC integration, has announced the release of its NFC Stack for Payment Terminals. According to M360, current POS terminals that accept common contactless payment solutions, such as PayWave and PayPass, do not allow for easy and inexpensive integration of non-traditional NFC applications like Bling Nation and […]

Isis, the mobile payments venture by Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile, is not “scaling back” efforts to launch its own payments platform in favor of a simpler mobile wallet service, contrary to a report by The Wall Street Journal. According to Mobile Commerce Daily, Isis will continue as planned to develop its own mobile […]

ASSA ABLOY has announced the release of its new Mobile Keys Platform, a solution that uses NFC-enabled mobile phones to unlock doors in hotels, commercial buildings and private homes. Instead of using a printer to encode a card or assigning a pre-encoded card, Mobile Keys Platform sends a virtual key to the end user’s NFC-enabled […]

PayPal has announced the acquisition of Boston-based mobile payments startup FigCard, according to TMCnet. Founded in 2010, FigCard provides a solution that lets merchants accept mobile payments by plugging a special USB device into their cash register or point-of-sale terminal. To pay using the solution, customers need only install the Fig app on their smart […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the availability of a new interactive PDF viewer allowing subscribers a new way to access our print magazines and content. The spring 2011 issue of re:ID is ready and the interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that […]

Mercator Advisory Group has released a new report examining how smart phones, NFC and biometrics will “transform” the world of payments and Web authentication. According to the report, “Authentication at the Edge: NFC, Smart phones, and a New Model for Payments Confidence,” NFC-equipped smart phones will enable Americans to utilize new security features, such as […]

This year’s Open Mobile Summit in London will focus on NFC and the mobile wallet. The conference, held in early June, will feature a segment called ‘Opening the mobile wallet,’ in which the panel of industry CEO’s and senior strategists will examine the key business drivers of mobile contactless payment, as well as its real-life […]

DAILY RFID has released a new SD card designed to turn any smart phone or PDA into a contactless reader. The plug-and-play SD RFID Reader, which is about the size of a postage stamp, can be inserted into the SD card slot of mobile devices to enable contactless 13.56MHz card or tag reading. Compatible with […]

Lotte, one of the largest food and shopping groups in South Korea, has begun accepting contactless mobile payments from mobile carrier KT, according to Akihabara News. Lotte customers with Samsung Galaxy S II phones are now able to tap and pay for items at check out via KT’s NFC network. Shoppers who spend more than […]