Mobey Forum, an international bank-led association aimed at promoting mobile commerce, has established a new chapter in North America that will address mobile issues facing the region. Mobey Forum North America brings together the region’s banks and payment providers – including chapter leader Bank of America, American Express, Capital One, Visa, MasterCard and others – […]

Toppan Forms and TF Payment Service (TFPS) have partnered to add an NFC twist to the “re:new Tohoku” exhibition in London’s Asia House. The exhibit, which wrapped up yesterday, featured a variety of Japanese made products including furniture, cookware and other hand-crafted goods from areas affected by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Each item […]

Isis, the mobile payments joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, is gearing up for its summer launch with a new series YouTube videos explaining how to use their mobile wallet solution. The eight tutorials cover everything from loading cards onto the wallet and redeeming offers to a step by step guide on how to […]

China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile network operator, is set to launch its first NFC-enabled mobile phone, reports NFC World. Slated to launch in the third quarter of 2012, the handset will be a version of Yulong’s Coolpad 8870 running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS. The dual GSM/TD-SCDMA device will support a number of NFC […]

Wireless device manufacturer Parrot has unveiled a pair of NFC-enabled wireless headphones. The new Zik headphones feature an NFC chip embedded in the left ear cup, enabling the user to establish a Bluetooth connection with other NFC-enabled devices with a simple tap. For example, users can tap their NFC phone against their Zik headphones to […]

Apple has been awarded a U.S. patent for an NFC-enabled transportation check-in system, according to Patently Apple. The system, called iTravel, works with iOS devices such as iPhones and iPads to store identification information and transfer it to a another electronic device via NFC. According to Patently Apple, a mobile device with iTravel could be […]

DeviceFidelity has been granted a patent from the European Patent Office for its NFC payments technology. Patent number 2196010 describes the technology behind DeviceFidelity’s iCaisse NFC external accessory for the iPhone, iPad or similar devices. The patent covers multiple configurations of the external NFC accessory, including an embedded or a removable Secure Element as well […]

Mexican fast food chain Chido has announced that its first restaurant in Paris, France will feature a mobile loyalty program from Airtag. 
Using Airtag’s AIRFID solution, Chido customers can earn loyalty loyalty points using a traditional Chido loyalty card with a printed 2D bar code or by launching a free app on their smart phone […]

C-SAM has licensed its Mobile Transaction Platform (MTP) to Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) as part of the two companies’ collaboration on a mobile wallet solution that will be fully integrated with DNP’s Trusted Service Management solution, smart card offerings and NFC technologies and digital services. According to C-SAM, this partnership will result in a mobile […]

Additions include derived credentials, adding photo to chip, more contactless functionality Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications The revised draft of FIPS 201-2 has been released and several additions have been made from the March 2011 draft. Some of the more significant changes include: Adding a mandatory facial image to the smart card Additional functionality of […]