Cyara Solutions, a developer of voice-based biometric systems and services simulation, testing and monitoring solutions, has announced it has reached a partnership with voice biometrics systems developer Nuance Communications to resell Nuance’s software with Cyara’s own products. As Cyara’s business is designed to ensure that voice recognition systems are operating properly and meeting requirements set […]

Sprint Nextel Corp. is planning to launch its own contactless mobile payments service ahead of rival m-payments provider Isis, according to Bloomberg. Sprint, which used to be a part of Isis before splitting to pursue its own m-payments project, is aiming for a launch later this year, whereas Isis, the joint venture formed by AT&T, […]

Isis, the mobile commerce joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, has announced it will pilot its mobile commerce program in Salt Lake City next year. The program will enable consumers to tap and pay for goods at various merchant locations in the Salt Lake City area using only an NFC-enabled mobile phone. Isis has […]

Amazon’s Payments unit is looking to launch a mobile payments service using NFC technology, two anonymous sources close to the project told Bloomberg. Amazon has been steadily investing in mobile the past couple years, introducing a service in 2009 that lets users pay for goods on Amazon via mobile phone, and, earlier this week, a […]

It was 10-year ago this past October when the first U.S. Defense Department Common Access Card was issued. Since then the largest U.S. agency has issued 24 million of the smart card-based secure credentials. In that time the staff at the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), the group within DOD responsible for issuing the card, […]

Samsung has announced plans to introduce its new Samsung Olympic and Paralympic Games mobile handset with mobile payment technology from Visa. The handset will enable consumers at the London 2012 Summer Games to make contactless mobile payments at more than 60,000 merchant locations. To make payments, customers simply select the Visa mobile contactless application, select […]

NPO Deep Springs International is partnering with the Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, Calif. to ensure the supply of clean drinking water in Haiti with NFC technology. In order to track chlorine levels in household drinking water, the partners are distributing water treatment kits with NFC technology to families in the most rural parts […]

Microsoft is said to be working on a version of its Windows Phone software that will enable mobile contactless payments via NFC, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. Two anonymous people familiar with the plans told Bloomberg that the new operating system, Windows Phone 7, may make its debut on devices as early as this year. Microsoft […]

While the lack of near field communication handsets may be hampering widescale deployments of the payment technology, there are some companies carving a niche in supplying solutions that enable NFC payments on existing handsets. DeviceFidelity’s microSD solution is being used in the Bank of America pilot in New York, says Deepak Jain, co-founder, CEO and […]

Gemalto has introduced the a UICC-embedded software application compliant with Mobile MasterCard PayPass M/Chip 4, the new MasterCard specification for NFC mobile payments. Gemalto says this development could pave the way for mass commercial roll outs of NFC payment across the world. In the UK, Gemalto is already partnering with a global first-tier financial institution […]