SIA Central Europe, an IT systems operator supporting bankcard issuance and transactions, is looking to work with financial institutions in Hungary and other Central European countries to deliver NFC-enabled mobile services, according to QR Code Press. SIA is hoping to create new mobile payment services that are viable for mass adoption among bank customers in […]

Kinetic and JCDecaux have announced positive results for their NFC-enabled outdoor advertising pilot in Reading, UK. Launched this past March, the pilot saw more than 3,000 people scan the NFC-enabled poster sites, which were set up across Reading and in the Oracle shopping mall over a four-week period. According to a survey conducted by the […]

Stagecoach, one of the UK’s largest bus and rail operators, has partnered with mobile operator Everything Everywhere to trial NFC payments in Cambridgeshire, UK. The trial, dubbed “the UK’s first Government-standard commercial deployment of mobile contactless transport ticketing,” enables a small group of bus users to receive, store and validate their bus tickets using their […]

Executives from MasterCard, Sony, Intel and other payments and consumer tech leaders took the stage earlier this week at the Smart Card Alliance’s NFC Solutions Summit 2012 to declare that NFC is coming soon, and when it does, it will enable a broad array of applications that will enhance the consumer experience at the point-of-sale […]

Jersey Mike’s Subs has seen its NFC-enabled Sub Club Rewards Program leap to more than 200,000 users nationwide since its debut last month, according to QSRWeb. The loyalty program uses both traditional bar code based membership cards as well as a mobile NFC-enabled sticker that can be tapped against a reader to earn points towards […]

Report includes BYOD requirement, new solutions for identity The White House Office of Management and Budget released a digital government strategy report, “Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People.” President Obama issued the directive to make services accessible from mobile devices and charged OMB with developing a strategy to […]

GlobalPlatform is hosting two one-day seminars in Beijing and Tokyo on how the mobile industry is coming together to standardize secure application execution in mobile handsets. The seminars, titled “Leveraging GlobalPlatform Specifications to Develop Secure Applications on Mobile Devices,” are free to attend and are scheduled to take place on July 10 in Tokyo and […]

Google closed the deal on acquiring Motorola Mobility, according to the company’s official blog. In announcing the buy, Google CEO Larry Page hinted that Google will use Motorola to expand its Google Wallet mobile commerce service. “It’s a well known fact that people tend to overestimate the impact technology will have in the short term, […]

France’s Toulouse-Blagnac Airport is gearing up to test a new service that lets passengers check-in, access their departure gates and pass through other controlled areas using just an NFC-enabled mobile phone. The trial, which involves partners SITA, Orange, and BlackBerry, will launch this summer with 50 selected passengers using their BlackBerry smart phones equipped with […]

Identive Group announced tomPAY, an NFC-enabled sticker tag that can be affixed to existing mobile phones to enable contactless payments. Based on Identive’s tom (tag on metal) smart inlay technology, tomPAY is manufactured using the same processes as an ISO PVC card. When placed on a phone, tomPAY enables contactless mobile payments in compliance with […]