Visa has announced that it will license its payWave contactless payment technology to Google for its mobile payments and loyalty service, Google Wallet. The agreement sets the stage for banks worldwide to enable Visa account holders to add their credit, debit and prepaid accounts to Google Wallet – a mobile app that lets NFC-enabled smart […]

Mercator Advisory Group has launched a new report predicting the mobile payments market will soon become “war zone” fought over by mobile operators, handset manufacturers, payment industry heavyweights, and Silicon Valley giants. Caught in the middle will be merchants, who will have to choose which side they’re on – i.e., which of the many services […]

Google has officially released the first version of its Google Wallet app to Sprint. According to Google’s blog, the app will be delivered to all Sprint Nexus S 4G phones through an over-the-air update. As a bonus, early Wallet adopters will be rewarded with a $10 free to use on their Google Prepaid Card. Additionally, […]

Tyfone has signed a deal with AboMem Technology Corp., a memory products manufacturer from Taiwan, to bring Tyfone’s SideTap microSD NFC solution to the People’s Republic of China. As per the deal, Abomen will manufacture and service Tyfone’s SideTap products, as well as distribute them to consumers throughout China via AboMem’s established network. According to […]

The Smart Card Alliance has announced the launch of a new white paper examining and comparing the different approaches to the burgeoning mobile payments market in the U.S. “The Mobile Payments and NFC Landscape: A U.S. Perspective” provides an overview of the state of the market and evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of using NFC, […]

Airtag, a point of sale solutions provider based in France, has announced a partnership with Orange to launch the first secure NFC-based Android app on the Samsung Galaxy S2. Now on display at the NFC World Congress 2011 in Nice, France, the app uses card emulation technology to enabled users to collect loyalty points and […]

Collisannounced the debut of its Mobile Test Center during the NFC World Congress this week in Nice, France. According to Collis, the center is designed to provide “one-stop-shop” testing services to every stakeholder in the NFC ecosystem, with the main goal of achieving a standard that will enabled widely accepted and interoperable NFC-Trusted Service Manager […]

Acer, a multinational IT and electronics corporation based in Taiwan, has announced the launch a new entry-level NFC smart phone for the French market, the E320 Liquid Express. The new handset will run on Android’s 2.3.3 Gingerbread OS, and will look and function much like Acer’s Liquid E (pictured). Features include a 3.5-inch HVGA display, […]

A report released by Goode Intelligence, an information security industry research and analyst company, predicts the mobile phone biometric security products and services marketplace will grow from the 4 million users in 2011 to 39 million users by 2015. The report, Mobile Phone Biometric Security Analysis and Forecasts 2011-2015, also looks at how it sees […]

Turkcell has some new developments leveraging NFC technology, according to the Wall Street Journal, which was recently given a glance inside the company’s research center outside of Istanbul. The Turkish teleco, which boasts some 33.5 million subscribers, has figured out a way to fit up to 11 different bank accounts and charge cards onto the […]