Seven leading players in the NFC ecosystem: Ericsson, Gemalto, NXP, Oberthur Technologies, STMicroelectronics, Venyon, a company in the Giesecke&Devrient group, and ViVOtech, joined forces to form the MIFARE4Mobile Industry Group. The aim of the group is to work together to standardize and advance the uniform management of MIFARE applications on NFC-enabled secure elements, such as […]

First Data Corporation and INSIDE Contactless announced the introduction of a new MasterCard PayPass contactless payment tag. Based on INSIDE’s MicroPass payment platform, the MasterCard PayPass mobile payment tag offers an economical solution for contactless mobile payment. Users simply attach the tag to their mobile phone to give it all the functionality of a traditional […]

MasterCard’s PayPass has recorded 49% growth in the first quarter of 2010 compared to the same period last year, according to bernama.com. MasterCard says a major contributing factor to this growth is the high level of consumer satisfaction with the contactless payment service, with 94% of PayPass customers reporting they are “satisfied” to “very satisfied.” […]

Following on the heels of Nice, the French Riviera is planning to implement its own mobile tour guide system based on NFC technology. Dubbed the CHEMIN project, the system offers visitors multimedia content, including audio, text, photos and videos, for each town and village visited. The media is accessed by waving an NFC handset over […]

The PMU, France’s state controlled betting organization, has hired Monext to manage all aspects of its recently implemented contactless “private label” card. The PMU Card, introduced in May at 10,500 of PMU’s sales outlets, allows users to place cashless bets via mobile phone, online or at a sales outlet. Customers may place their bets and […]

Heartland Payment Systems, the nation’s fifth largest payments processor, has installed its E3 terminals at 1,020 merchant locations since commercially launching the technology on May 24 at the 2010 National Restaurant Association Hotel-Motel Show in Chicago. E3 terminals, which accept both mag stripe and contactless EMV cards, are specifically designed to protect cardholder credit and […]

Most cell phones today contain a SIM card, which can be swapped with the ones developed by SKT to read the radio waves emitted by the tags attached to medical supplies, whiskey and other products to ensure its authenticity. SK Telecom recently announced the development of a universal subscriber identity module, or USIM, embedded with […]

Veteran smart phone provider RIM has an opportunity to step up and lead the mobile industry, even in the face of increasing competition from Apple and Google, according to analysis from the Gerson Lehrman Group. In order to take the reins, GLGroup says RIM has to invest new business avenues, including mobile payment, mobile advertising […]

Gartner has released a new report naming the Asia-Pacific region as the leading market for mobile payment adoption, with the number of users in the region predicted to increase by 50% from 41.8 million last year to 62.8 million by the end of 2010, according to ZDNet Asia. Gartner also expects the number mobile payment […]

TazTag has announced the launch of its new TazBox , a device designed to give users the ability to use contactless technology in the home or office. The new product contains the infrastructure needed to use all NFC-enabled devices such as smart phones or the TazTag’s own TazCard, as well as next-gen loyalty and payment […]