The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) is updating their fare boxes to accept new smart transit cards for riders when boarding buses, according to a local news brief. The new fare boxes, funded by a federal grant, will enable residents to purchase a reloadable transit card, which allows riders to load as much […]

The Austrian city of Klagenfurt is building its first public library using nothing but NFC tags and QR codes, according to Engadget. The Project Ingebord initiative has placed 70 NFC and QR code stickers (pictured) around the city, each containing a link to a freely downloadable public domain work via Project Gutenberg and other free […]

Isis, the mobile payments joint venture from Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, will likely launch its service this August on Android and BlackBerry smart phones with embedded NFC, as well as on iPhones with NFC sleeve attachments, an inside source has told CNET. Although it has been known for some time that Isis will debut in […]

Croatian mobile operator Hrvatski Telekom has begun an internal pilot of NFC-enabled mobile payments. The pilot, which will continue until the end of October 2012, involves some two hundred employees of Hrvatski Telekom making tap and go payments at selected points of sale using their NFC-enabled mobile phones. According to HT, this marks the first […]

Korean IT service provider LG CNS has signed a memorandum of understanding with telecos KT and LG U+ to launch an access control system that uses NFC-enabled phones in place of traditional work ID badges. The new service, targeted toward public institutions and corporations, enables employers to issue access credentials over the air to the […]

Australia’s Commonwealth Bank has unveiled a trio of new solutions – including a software platform, iOS add-on device, and a point of sale terminal – designed to change the point of sale experience for merchants and customers The new software platform, CommBank Pi, enables application developers and businesses to create Android apps and distribute them […]

Google released a software upgrade for the Nexus 7 tablet enabling it to use Google Wallet. With the update, Nexus 7 owners can now use their tablet to make purchases and redeem offers just like with an NFC-enabled smart phone, the company posted on Google Plus.  

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has introduced an NFC-enabled sticker that enables German bank customers to make contactless payments with their existing mobile phones. The mobile payments sticker runs on SECCOS (Secure Chip Card Operating System), the German banking industry system for smart cards. When attached to a cell phone or smart phone, the sticker enables […]

Malaysia-based electronic payments provider Touch ‘n Go (TnG) will introduce a mobile version of its prepaid smart card for NFC-enabled phones within the next two months, according to The Sun Daily. The mobile Touch ‘n Go app will support a number of contactless functions, including transit ticketing, payment, loyalty, access control, tag reading and peer-to-peer […]

Turkcell, Turkey’s largest mobile operator, has announced the launch of its new NFC-enabled T Series handset, the Turkcell MaxiPLUS5. In addition to being a “more affordable” alternative to other NFC smart phones, the Android-based MaxiPLUS5 debuts Turkcells’ new NFC-based Mobile Contactless Order system. Each handset will ship with an NFC-enabled refrigerator magnet that can be […]