NFC has, thus far, struggled to gain widespread public adoption, however, Hyundai has announced plans to incorporate NFC in its vehicles in a new and innovative way. In a report by Gotta Be Mobile, NFC has been gaining momentum in the form of keyless start functions for automobiles. Keyless start solutions work are a logical […]

Tapit has announced the completion of a $2.4 million Series A round led by MPC Ventures Pty Limited, a subsidiary of Sydney-based Monash Private Capital. Tapit has developed an NFC ecosystem that simplifies the way people receive content and information when they are on the go. Users simply tap one of the Tapit symbols with […]

Dave Marcus, president of PayPal, takes a look into his crystal ball and makes his predictions for the 2013 mobile payments landscape. Marcus is adamant that the payments revolution that has begun this past year with NFC-enabled transactions and mobile wallet apps will continue into the new year. It is clear that the public is […]

With mobile banking solutions seeing increased adoption and the presence of mobile devices permeating virtually every facet of contemporary society, Frost & Sullivan have predicted that four topics will dominate the financial services market in 2013: contactless payments, commercial mobile payment offerings, cloud-based solutions and data analytics. In a release from Frost & Sullivan, the […]

NXP Semiconductors implemented Identive Group’s Cashless Betalen mobile payment system in the employee cafeteria at its production facility’s in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Cashless Betalen works with Rabobank’s digital wallet to accept micro-payments when employees tap their mobile phones at payment terminals in the cafeteria. Identive produces the user interface and account management software platform for […]

German-based test equipment manufacturer COMPRION GmbH has launched Spectro TP, a smart card conformance test that supports GlobalPlatform’s requirements for ETSI SWP/HCI test case execution. The Spectro TP platform is a one-box product that covers ISO 7816, SWP/HCI, IC-USB contact-based cards and ISO 14443/NFC contactless cards. It will run tests for ETSI, 3GPP, 3GPP2 and […]

Smart Card Alliance’s Payments Summit will feature credit giants AmEx, Discover, MasterCard and Visa as well as Isis and the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) to outline U.S. EMV migration and global payments trends. The 6th annual installment of the Summit will take place in Salt Lake City, Utah Feb. 5-7 with pre-conference workshops to be […]

GlobalPlatform has updated its Composition Model, which streamlines security evaluation of NFC contactless mobile applications. First released in 2011, the Composition Model defines a simple certification approach for the security of secure element (SE) products carrying sensitive or basic applications as well as simplifies post-issuance application management. The latest enhancements to the model will be […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the winter 2012 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front […]

NFC is a technology that often captures the attention and ambitions of the technology sector, but puzzlingly enough one of the most promising applications for NFC — payments — is yet to come to fruition. As reported by the Third Screen, this past week’s MIT Forum saw a bittersweet application of NFC technology. Dubbed the […]