General Motors subsidiary OnStar is working toward an NFC solution that would enable payment at electric car charging stations. As reported by NFCWorld.com, the increasing number of electric cars has produced a unique opportunity for NFC-enabled payments. OnStar sees the need to charge away from home will only increase, as will the need to know […]

The business card has long been a staple in business networking, but custom business card maker, Moo is using NFC to create cards like never before. As reported by GigaOM.com, Moo is producing paper business cards that house an NFC tag. While sending data between phones using NFC has been around for some time now, […]

While the restaurant industry is starting to adopt mobile payments, no one platform is coming across as the clear winner in the field, reports Nation’s Restaurant News. Adoption of mobile payments is slowly growing, as customers get used to the concept of paying with phones and feeling that their transactions are conducted securely. Some chains […]

INSIDE Secure has entered into an agreement to purchase Authentec’s Embedded Security Solutions (ESS), a business which designs and develops encryption-related security hardware intellectual property and software for a variety of industries, including the mobile and networking markets. INSIDE Secure will pay $38 million in cash subject to a working capital adjustment and up to […]

College students are more interested in using their smart phones as an all-around identity product rather that what most colleges and universities now offer–picture IDs with a mag stripe or contactless chip, a study from SecurityInfowatch.com reports. The study, conducted among 980 U.S. four-year and two-year colleges and universities, found that convenience is the “ultimate […]

A recent IDC report estimates that total mobile device spending — driven largely by m-commerce — will exceed $1 trillion by 2017. As reported by Information-Age.com, the IDC Financial Insight’s Worldwide Mobile Payments 2012-2017 report presents a worldwide forecast of consumer and private sector spending via mobile networks, and sees major increases in m-commerce in […]

PayPal stated that there is still a possibility for a marriage with NFC technology — despite clear disinterest from parent eBay. According to a report by QRCodePress.com, parent company eBay has not previously expressed support for NFC, however recent comments from head of PayPal PR and Communications Adrian Christie suggest a change of heart. eBay […]

TMONET and GO-Trust have partnered to form a microSD-based mobile service platform for the single-wire protocol microSD technologies and institute a mobile NFC payments infrastructure in Korea. A release from GO-Trust states that the creation of the microSD service platform will make Korea the second nation, behind China, to publish a national standard specifying microSD […]

In an effort to facilitate and streamline the buying experience, Walmart is exploring an option that will enable its customers to find specific in-store items using their smart phones, according to a report by FierceMobileContent.com. The retail giant is planning to test the app — which will also report the customer’s exact location within the […]

Goode Intelligence founder Alan Goode recently blogged about Smart Mobile Identity and the next generation of mobile-based authentication and identity verification products. Goode writes that mobile authentication is transforming from porting current authentication methods into a mobile environment to mobile services designing authentication applications specifically for mobile devices. These methods are leveraging different mobile features […]