ID solutions provider Morpho has partnered with Simlink to launch a new key fob that equips any Wi-Fi enabled mobile phone with NFC technology. The key fob contains a Morpho NFC-enabled SIM card with a secure application that hooks up to a mobile phone via Wi-Fi technology provided by Simlink. “Equipped in this way, the […]

On Track Innovations has received the first order for its new contactless mobile payment product, COPNI. COPNI (Contactless Payment and NFC Insert) is an NFC add-on device that enables mobile network operators (MNOs) to support NFC functionality and contactless payment applications from major card associations and mass transit ticketing agencies. The solution also allows MNOs […]

Chinese handset maker ZTE has announced plans to bring NFC technology to future ZTE phones. ZTE says it will integrate NXP Semiconductors’ NFC chips into its new line of global smart phones, including Android devices, as well as more entry-level feature phones. ZTE, the world’s number four mobile phone manufacturer, will begin rolling out the […]

Oberthur Technologies and Airtel Africa are partnering to launch mobile payments services in fifteen African countries including Kenya, Tanzania and Gabon. Oberthur Technologies is supplying both the NFC SIM and M-Commerce security solutions for the deployment, including customized NFC applets, integrated and specialized point of sale applications and NFC enablers for specific user handsets. According […]

AT4 wireless and Collis have partnered to offer a range of test solutions for the NFC, contactless payment, transit and ID market segments. Collis’s test solutions include the SWP-HCI Test Suites and the GlobalPlatform UICC Configuration Test Suite and Aspects Spy. AT4 will add its wireless NFC and RFID conformance and R&D test tools, including […]

NXP Semiconductors and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) have developed a joint software solution offering secure interfaces between the handset, NFC functionality and secure elements such as the SIM card. The open source solution integrates NXP’s NFC controllers with G&D’s secure software solutions to enable NFC to be integrated into mobile handsets based on the Android […]

Gemalto is introducing the Protiva Mobile OTP, a new way for businesses and their employees to deploy two-factor authentication, by using their mobile phones. The company also announced that its Strong Authentication (SA) Server and Protiva OTP Tokens have been integrated with Microsoft DirectAccess. The Protiva Mobile OTP is part of Gemalto’s Protiva Strong Authentication […]

Animetrics, developer of three-dimensional face recognition solutions, has announced the release of two new smart phone applications that use facial recognition for access. The first, called FaceR CredentialME, is available on Apple’s App Store for the iPhone and the second, called FaceR CredentialME AppLock, is available on Google’s Android Market. While both offerings authenticate an […]

VeriFone Systems has announced that its contactless payment acceptance system has been chosen by Garanti Bank of Turkey for its nationwide integrated NFC SIM mobile payment program. Garanti and Turkish mobile network operator Avea recently moved from pilot phase to commercial availability of their system, which uses NFC-enabled SIM cards to turn existing mobile phones […]

Orange has announced plans to offer Samsung’s new NFC-enabled Wave 578 in certain European markets this year. Orange says the Samsung handset will be launched in Spain, Poland and France from Q2 this year. The French telecom expects that by the end of 2011 more than half of all new smart phone models to be […]