Subway is preparing to launch NFC payment terminals in 24,000 restaurants across the U.S., according to Mobile Commerce News. The terminals, which are slated to hit stores this fall, will enable customers to pay for their meals with a tap of their NFC-enabled smart phone. As one of the first retailers to join Google’s Mobile […]

Visa Inc. is getting behind the adoption of contact and contactless EMV in the U.S. as a way to prepare the payments infrastructure for near field communication. The company will start offering incentives to merchants in 2012 to make the switch to contact and contactless point-of-sales terminals. Chip technology aims to accelerate mobile payments but […]

C-SAM has signed an agreement to provide ISIS with its wallet management platform and software development kit (SDK). According to C-SAM, the platform will enable ISIS to offer smart phone users a “comprehensive mobile wallet” for conducting NFC-enabled transactions and other services. C-SAM’s says its SDK will also enable independent service providers to build their […]

Google looks poised for an acquisition of BlackBerry smart phone manufacturer Research In Motion (RIM), according to Anton Wahlman, a former telecom stock analyst with UBS, Needham & Co., and ThinkEquity. The deal, which Whalman says has a 50-50 shot at happening, would give Google access to RIM’s celebrated security technology in order to better […]

ABI Research has released a new report predicting that China will see more than $8 billion in NFC payments by 2014. According ABI, Chinese device manufacturers and operators like ZTE are keen to move ahead with contactless mobile payments. This is due in part to an enormous market with more than 868 million cell phone […]

Turkcell has announced a partnership with Ticket Restaurant to pilot a meal payment program based on NFC technology. Operating on the Cep-T Cuzdan mobile wallet service, the new system enables Turkcell employees to embed their Ticket Restaurant meal cards into their NFC-enabled SIM card, enabling them to pay for lunch with just a simple tap […]

MasterCard is teaming up with Georgian banks to launch mobile payments as soon as next year, according to Finchannel.com. Kemal Uyan, regional business development director for MasterCard South East Europe, told Finchannel.com that the company is looking to roll out an NFC service called MOTAPS for contactless transactions at the point of sale, as well […]

Insurance2go has become the first company to offer fraud insurance for NFC payments in anticipation of a mobile wallet boom later this year. The company launched the service, which covers its current UK customers using mobile wallet technology at no extra cost, according to Mobilechoices.co.uk. “With this new payment system mobile phones will become even […]

NXP Semiconductors, AuthenTec and DeviceFidelity Inc. announced that they are jointly developing reference designs that enable secure mobile payments via Android-based phones through the use of fingerprint biometrics and near field communication technology. Reference designs created by the companies are expected to help mobile phone manufacturers and wireless carriers to address the growing demand for […]

TagStar has expanded its TOM (TagOnMetal) product line to include several new tags that combine various shielding elements and tag surfaces for use with up-and-coming NFC applications. TOM is TagStar’s patented magnetic shielding technology that allows a tag’s RFID to overcome the weakening effect of metal on RFID signals. Depending on the application, the shielding […]