The University of Denver’s hotel, restaurant and tourism school is launching NFC mobile payment at the campus’ student run coffee shop, according to americanbanker.com. Students and faculty will be able to use their mobile phones to make point-of-sale purchases, as well as add money to their accounts and check balances and transaction histories. Mocapay is […]

Transport for London (TfL), the body of local government responsible for public transportation in Greater London, has bought the rights to the Oyster Card brand for £1m from TranSys, according to BBC News. Rumor has it that TfL has already begun trials on using Oyster on bank cards and mobile phones. Kulveer Ranger, the Mayor […]

Apple has just published a patent enabling NFC-enabled smart phone users to exchange money by simply tapping their phones together, according to intomobile.com. The technology is expected to appear on new iPhone OS 4.0 handsets in the form of a “Transaction” app. Users will have the option of paying someone with a credit card, debit […]

European provider of returnable transport packaging for the flower and plant industry, Container Centralen have selected Nordic ID as part of Container Centralen’s Operation Chip It. Operation Chip It is a tagging operation in which all 3.5 million CC Containers get new tags. This is to protect the CC Pool System from illegal copies of […]

SK C&C, a mobile commerce systems provider from Korea, has announced that it will open its new m-Commerce Center of Excellence headquarters in Atlanta. From its new headquarters, SK C&C says it will work closely with major mobile network operators, financial institutions, merchants and payment processors in the U.S. and around the world to deliver […]

VeriFone has selected Chase Paymentech as the preferred provider of new merchant accounts for buyers of VeriFone’s PAYware Mobile iPhone card payment solution. The solution, which attaches to an iPhone to accept payment via credit card, will be sold through Apple Retail Stores and the Apple Store online beginning April 6. VeriFone CEO Douglas G. […]

Bharat Book has released a new report forecasting NFC applications and markets for 2009-2014. The report, titled “Near Field Communications – the future of m-payments,” analyzes NFC technology at three stages: the development and standardization process that NFC has undergone since its inception in the market, the current NFC market status (where the technology stands […]

Cardis Enterprises International is introducing its small value contactless payment solution to the European market. According to Cardis, costly back-end shadow accounting and high-processing costs have kept low value contactless payment solutions from giving consumers an obvious advantage over using cash. Cardis addresses this issue by introducing an industry-first end-to-end transaction aggregation system, which enables […]

China Unipay has launched a mobile payment pilot in six provinces and municipalities including Shanghai, Shandong, Ningbo, Hunan, Sichuan and Shenzhen, according to People’s Daily Online. After registering, customers can install financial IC cards provided by participating banks into their existing mobile phones to receive services such as contactless payment and mobile banking. According to […]

Starbucks has expanded its mobile payment system from 16 shops to more than 1,000 locations in Target stores, according to americanbanker.com. The system, created by mFoundry Inc., generates a coded image on the customer’s smart phone, which is passed under a reader at the point of sale. The amount purchased is automatically deducted from the […]