Douglas Group, an international retail organization with more than 1,500 stores throughout Europe, will soon accept Visa contactless and mobile payments at all of its chain stores in Germany. Contactless and mobile payments with Visa, based on the Visa payWave technology, will enable customers to pay up to an amount of €25 without entering a […]

The November election is a recent memory but before ballots were cast, Rock the Vote added another technology to its bag of tricks to inform young people of their voting rights and help them register to vote. The latest “We Will” campaign used NFC technology to enable citizens to begin the voter registration process and […]

Research in Motion (RIM) has announced that BlackBerry users will soon be able to charge purchases made at cash registers with their Visa cards using NFC technology implanted in the provider’s new line of smartphones. According to a TMCNet report, RIM said Tuesday that Visa has officially opened its credit card system to work with […]

Identive announced two new NFC solution development kits that will enable faster construction and implementation of NFC apps. The first of the SDKs is the NFC Plug & Play Starter Kit, which enables NFC developers to quickly create and assess new NFC-based apps across a variety of NFC chips. The second SDK is the NFC-NDEF […]

Incipio, in partnership with AT&T, announced that it will provide an NFC-enabled iPhone case that will enable iOS users to access the ISIS Mobile Wallet service. A 9to5Mac report has revealed that the Incipio offering — dubbed Cashwrap— will initially launch for iPhone 4 and 4S and will be available for purchase through brick-and-mortar AT&T […]

U.S. Bank is inviting its FlexPerks Visa customers in the Salt Lake City, and Portland, Ore. markets to pilot the bank’s new U.S. Bank Go Mobile payment service that includes NFC for iPhone. The mobile payment service will enable customers to pay for everyday items with a simple wave of their iPhone 4 or iPhone […]

The NFC Forum has announced a webcast entitled “NFC Goes Vertical: Introducing NFC Forum Special Interest Groups,” which will take place on Jan. 24th at both 11 a.m. EST and 9:00 p.m. EST, with a third offering on Jan. 25 at 11 a.m. JST. The webcast seeks to address the growing NFC market, and with […]

Ingenico, a worldwide provider of payment transactions solutions, has received approval for its iPP350 payment device in Germany for the new contactless payment method, called girogo. The Ingenico iPP350 payment device has been approved for all of the card-based payment methods relevant in Germany and has been in operation in the German city of Hanover […]

Sony is rolling up its sleeves to level the playing field with rival Apple and is using NFC to create a new product line that will distinguish the Tokyo-based tech giant from its competition. At this year’s Consumer Electronic Show (CES) held in Las Vegas, Sony has placed NFC at the heart of some of […]

Canada-based CIBC has announced a promotional effort that will look to increase adoption of both NFC and mobile payments. A Telecoms report reveals that CIBC will collaborate with Blackberry manufacturer RIM and Canadian telco Rogers. CIBC has launched a print magazine ad in Connected Rogers Magazine containing an NFC tag developed by Crosscliq. Tapping the […]