South Korea’s Solacia has announced it intends to deliver its high-capacity USIM (Universal Subscriber Identity Module) cards for the next-generation of 4G services from Verizon and other mobile providers in the U.S. “Korea’s mobile providers foresee a mobile payments market of US$145 billion by 2015, and the US market will be potentially four times as […]

Google has announced the launch of a new 4G version of its NFC-equipped Nexus S handset. The upgraded Nexus, which still runs on the Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” OS, features an NFC chip that gives the handset full mobile wallet functionality. According to Mobiledia, Google will use the new Nexus in its upcoming NFC payments trial […]

UK-based management consultancy The Human Chain and US-based BÖWE BELL + HOWELL (BBH) have announced a partnership to deliver NFC services to the U.S. The partners say they are looking into the loyalty, membership, payment and access control markets, delivering solutions that will leverage multiple form factors such as smart phones, cards, microSD and stickers. […]

French payment solutions provider Ingenico has announced that shipments of its contactless payment terminals with NFC technology doubled in 2010. According to Ingenico, 21% of the company’s terminals sold in 2010 were equipped with contactless technology, twice the rate of 2009. Ingenico’s Telium terminals support NFC ISO18092 and are capable of accepting value added services […]

Frost & Sullivan has awarded its 2011 European Customer Value Enhancement Award in NFC Smart Cards Services to France’s Twinlinx for its MyMax NFC sticker solution. MyMax enables users to transform virtually any phone into an NFC handset by simply tagging it with a MyMax NFC sticker. The sticker can be used as a payment […]

Google is reportedly planning to test contactless mobile payments at stores in New York and San Francisco, says Bloomberg. According to a source close to the project, Google will begin installing thousands NFC-compliant terminals from VeriFone at retail locations throughout the two cities within the next four months. The leak follows Google’s recent introduction of […]

Australian bank ANZ and Visa are launching a joint pilot of contactless payments using DeviceFidelity’s NFC-enabled iPhone case, according to Finextra. The four week pilot will include 50 participants from the companies’ Sydney and Melbourne offices. DeviceFidelity’s case will be outfitted with a microSD memory card containing a pre-paid ANZ account that can be managed […]

Despite persistent rumors that the upcoming iPhone 5 would feature built-in NFC, it looks like Apple has decided to hold off on the technology, reports The Independent. In a series of discussions with the UK’s top mobile operators, Apple has revealed that it will not include NFC in the iPhone 5 or iPhone 4GS due […]

It has been announced that this year’s Asian SESAMES Awards will be held on March 29th – the first day of CARTES in Asia, a major international trade fair for the smart cards industry at the AsiaWord-Expo in Hong Kong. The SESAMES aim to reward the most innovative technological application developed for the Asian Pacific […]

Juniper Research has released a new report predicting that the number of mobile ticketing users worldwide will triple from 230 million in 2011 to 750 million in 2015, according to BizReport. Already popular in Japan, mobile ticketing can be used for the cinema, sporting events, travel and other everyday ticketing purchases. According to Juniper, the […]