Nokia’s Senior Vice President Jo Harlow has revealed that the company’s future Symbian smart phones will be equipped with NFC technology, according to bloomberg.com. Nokia’s C7 phone, now in stores, is already NFC-enabled, and can be used by customers for contactless payments and identification at the point of sale, says Harlow. Harlow added that Nokia […]

Motorola announced availability of its MC3190-Z mobile computer for the European market, offering bother RFID and bar code reading functions appropriate for retail and inventory monitoring. Based on the company’s MC3190 mobile computer, the small MC3190-Z weighs in at only 1.4 pounds. It also comes with Motorola’s new RFID reader engine that has high throughput […]

Waspit has announced the launch of its open-loop BuzzPay contactless mobile payments system in the UK with the help of pub chain Yates’s. BuzzPay, which works with NFC capable handsets as well as with contactless stickers that can be affixed to non-NFC phones, can be used to conduct purchases anywhere MasterCard PayPass is accepted. According […]

Pulse has announced the introduction of its new NFC stamp antenna for mobile phones and portable wireless devices at electronica 2010 in Munich. The 15mm x 20mm x 5mm antenna, designed for integration with a main penta-band antenna, enables both 13.56 MHz NFC communication and frequency ranges of 824-960MHz and 1710-2170MHz for wireless connectivity using […]

VeriFone Systems Inc. has announced that it will integrate PayPal into its PAYware Mobile contactless payment service. The partnership will see PayPal’s merchant acceptance application enhanced to support traditional card-based payments using VeriFone’s PAYware Mobile card encryption. In turn, VeriFone’s PAYware Mobile App will be enhanced to support PayPal Bump technology, enabling iPhone users to […]

Union Bank of India has launched a cashless campus project at Madhya Pradesh State Technical University that allows students in the university to make payments by using their mobile phone, according to The Hindu Business Line. The new student service reduces queuing times as it frees the university’s approximate 2,500 students and staff from the […]

Apple is working with Gemalto to develop an integrated SIM card for its iPhone that could be used for mobile payments, according to gigaom.com. The new built-in SIM, which would enable Apple to bypass mobile operators in offering service to its customers, seems to indicate Apple is finally ready to deliver an iPhone with a […]

Canada and London are less than two years away from commercial deployments of NFC mobile payment technology, according to BBC News. Experts predict Canada is set for a mobile payments ‘revolution’ in late 2011, with the successful conclusion of pilots by both MasterCard and Visa in addition to Sage Payment Solutions and ROAM Data’s recently […]

BI2 Technologies will release its Mobile Offender Recognition and Information System (MORIS) in November. The company has already pre-released several units for testing and has received encouraging feedback. “It’s a major advance in terms of having multimodal capability, iris, facial and fingerprint on one device that’s as ubiquitous and easy to use as any cell […]

Thirteen French cities are receiving government support to launch NFC-enabled mobile contactless payment and information services, according to scottrade.com. The initiative is backed by the Ministry of Industry, which will provide consultancy and engineering assistance for a number of NFC projects ranging from public transit mobile ticketing to m-payments for school lunches. Among the cities […]