Tyfone has announced the launch of iCashe, a new mobile wallet and eCommerce engine that blends mobile banking features with consumer purchasing, gifting and loyalty programs. With iCashe, gift cards can be purchased and stored on a person’s mobile phone for personal use, or sent to anyone in the U.S. via email or SMS. iCashe […]

Mobey Forum, a bank-led mobile commerce industry association, has released a new report providing industry stakeholders with a strategy for making NFC contactless mobile payments at the point of sale a mass market reality. The report, Business Models for NFC Payments, addresses how all stakeholders – i.e., financial institutions, MNOs, handset manufacturers and software providers […]

The NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association dedicated to advancing NFC technology, has announced that credit card provider Barclaycard has become a sponsor member. As a sponsor, Barclaycard will hold a seat on the NFC Forum Board of Directors, the organization’s governing body. According to the NFC Forum, sponsor membership is the highest level of […]

Peet’s Coffee & Tea, a Calif.-based specialty coffee and tea retail chain, has announced that it will begin accepting MasterCard PayPass contactless payments at all of its company-owned locations by the end of October 2011. The roll out, which will encompass all 193 Peet’s locations nationwide, will support both contactless PayPass credit and debit cards, […]

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) and Sitronics Smart Technologies (SST) are teaming up to manufacture and personalize NFC-capable SIM cards for a mobile payment system in Russia. The first of it’s kind in Russia, the solution will enable customers of leading Mobile TeleSystems, a leading Russian MNO, to tap and pay for gas at Lukoil service […]

RIM has unveiled a new contactless content-sharing system for NFC-enabled BlackBerry smart phones, according to Silicon.com. “BlackBerry Tag” will enable users to share contact info, documents, URLs, photos and other media by simply tapping their NFC-enabled BlackBerry handsets together. The service will also connect to BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), allowing users to tap phones to add […]

Merchant360, Health Portal Solutions, and CliniCard have teamed up to create a patient identification and payments system using NFC technology. Dubbed PatientID+, the solution enables health care providers to quickly perform identity verification, eligibility screening, and payment at intake by simply swiping the patient’s information from their PatientID+ NFC card or NFC-enabled phone. The patient […]

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) expects to award a contract for its long-awaited contactless fare payments system this month, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. The $100 million system will enable some 3.9 million people in and around Philadelphia to use contactless credit or debit cards, as well as SEPTA smart cards and mobile phones, […]

SMRT corporation, Singapore’s second largest public transit operator, has announced the launch of new NFC-enabled ‘iMobSMRT’ media hubs in SMRT stations around Singapore. According to SMRT, the iMobSMRT stations enables Singapore’s more than 2 million commuters to access services such as taxi bookings with just a tap of an NFC phone against a tag. Users […]

Meridian Health, iMPak Health and T-Mobile have announced the successful deployment of their NFC-enabled SleepTrak sleep monitoring system. The system uses a SleepTrack card, a credit card-sized wireless device that is secured in a band worn around the upper arm, that tracks and monitors the user’s sleep habits through actigraphy, a widely used test method […]