The prevalence of NFC payments at this summer’s Olympics in London may draw the attention of thieves using “fuzz” attacks on mobile devices, according to McAfee. London will serve as a major test ground this summer for NFC payments. Samsung and Visa are piloting the technology with Olympic athletes using Galaxy SIII phones, and it […]

With the emergence of Google Wallet and the slow migration toward mobile payment transactions, researchers at the University of Toronto had an idea. How about creating an app just for identification purposes? It would act as a simple form of ID, like a driver license, but it would reveal only the specific information needed for […]

A survey of the 250 Oslo residents who participated in Telenor and DNB’s NFC payments pilot last summer yielded overwhelming positive results, according to Telonor. Launched in May 2011, the four month “Tap2Pay” pilot involved a select number of Oslo consumers using NFC-enabled Samsung phones to make MasterCard PayPass contactless payments at several retail stores […]

VingCard Elsafe has unveiled “Essence by VingCard,” a new NFC-enabled door locking design that encases all electronic components within the door itself, rendering the hardware invisible to hotel guests. According to VingCard, Essence is the first electronic door lock solution to eliminate visible reader components. As with VingCard’s other offerings, Essence locks can be accessed […]

Australia’s Commonwealth Bank has announced that its Kaching mobile payments app is now available on 13 Android mobile devices, including the NFC-enabled Samsung Galaxy S3. Android Kaching users can perform standard mobile banking functions as well as make peer-to-peer payments using a person’s mobile phone number, email address or Facebook account. The app does not […]

Public transportation operators STIB & SNCB in Belgium have chosen the Evolis Zenius Expert card printer to deliver contactless MOBIB transit cards to commuters who ride the city’s metro, tramways and buses. With the Zenius Expert, sales counters operated by STIB and SNCB can personalize and instantly deliver such passes to commuters in a matter […]

The Silken Amara Plaza Hotel in Spain has chosen to upgrade to Onity’s latest locking technology, the HT RFID electronic locking system, to provide maximum security for all 162 of its luxury rooms. Onity’s updated electronic locking system replaces traditional magnetic stripe technology with contactless RFID technology, eliminating the need for physical contact between the […]

NatWest, one of the UK’s largest banks, has announced that it will trial NFC payments using its TouchPay mobile app and Wireless Dynamics’ iCarte accessory for the iPhone. Some 1,000 NatWest customers will be provided with a free NFC-enabled iCarte case for their iPhone 4 or 4S smart phone. After attaching the iCarte case, the […]

Awareness of NFC mobile payments is on the rise in the UK, according to YouGov’s new Mobile Wallet tracking study. Over a third (36%) of the UK population is now aware of “contactless technology in mobile payments,” while 12% are aware of the existence of NFC technology. However, despite the recent launches of Barclay’s Pingit, […]

Google is now shipping 1 million NFC-enabled Android devices each week, according to Hugo Barra, Google’s director of Android product management. Barra revealed the figure during his keynote address at Google I/O, the company’s annual developer-focused conference held in San Francisco. By Tech Crunch’s reckoning, this means that nearly 15% of the 400 million Android […]