Gemalto, NXP and Infineon have introduced a mobile contactless solution compliant with the single wire protocol standard and with NXP’s MIFARE infrastructure. The three companies are demonstrating the new technology at the Mobile World Congress that’s underway in Barcelona, Spain. The handset demonstrated at the show included an NFC controller from NXP complemented by Gemalto’s […]

Visa Europe and Visa Inc. will be showcasing the latest technology in payments at the 2009 GSMA Mobile World Congress. In addition, Visa executives will discuss how Visa is helping to drive the convergence of financial services and mobile technology. Visa will use real world examples to demonstrate how its technologies in mobile payment technologies […]

A British survey commissioned by payment solutions provider Ingenico found that consumers would opt for convenience over security when choosing a new payment method. The research found that contactless cards and mobile handset technology are popular with shoppers already and could prove a viable alternative for cash. While the numbers of people actually using the […]

Gemalto and INSIDE Contactless have announced an NFC solution that complies with European Telecommunications Standards Institute regulations and GSMA’s Pay-Buy-Mobile initiative. INSIDE’s MicroRead NFC chip, combined with the Gemalto’s latest UpTeq 300 m-NFC SIM card can give handset makers and mobile operators a compliant, interoperable, single wire protocol solution called for by GSMA to support […]

Oberthur Technologies announced the integration of the Valimo Mobile Authentication Client (VMAC) into its SIM applications portfolio to provide a digital signature solution using Wireless Public Key Infrastructure (WPKI). This new secure transaction capability responds to a challenge with online transactions since there is no 100% safe mechanism to prevent end users from being misled […]

Tumbleweed Communications, a digital security and identity authentication company, has announced that its identity validation suite, called Validation Authority, is now compatible with BlackBerry smart phones. The new security available for BlackBerry devices enables a user to require digital certificate authentication for access to a number of applications including e-mail and secured Web sites. Multiple […]

Seeking to simplify and improve the way consumers interact with their mobile phones, INSIDE Contactless has introduced its Wave-Me initiative, a collection of application software, NFC tags and services for handset manufacturers and wireless operators that can speed the development of NFC applications and allow consumers to load these applications into their handsets. INSIDE’s Wave-Me […]

Orico, a Japanese consumer credit and cobranded card issuer, is wrapping up an NFC test of Mobile MasterCard PayPass that was launched last November that lets customers use their phone to make credit and debit transactions at any merchant equipped with a PayPass-compatible contactless payments terminal. For the trial, mobile network operator KDDI provided the […]

Venyon, a joint venture of Giesecke & Devrient and Nokia, is cooperating with Kasikornbank to launch an NFC mobile payment trial in Bangkok. The trial will make it possible for Kasikornbank customers to purchase goods simply by waving a NFC mobile phone over the contactless reader at the point of sale. Purchases will be charged […]

SALTO’s XS4 electronic stand alone locks, contactless update on card wall readers and SVN Virtual Network technology from are being put to use at Malaysia’s luxury resort complex, The Club at The Saujana. Set among 160 acres of lush tropical gardens and nestled among the rolling hills of a palm plantation yet just a 35 […]