Thinaire announced the launch of its Enterprise Suite, a marketing platform providing tools for NFC-powered mobile campaigns. Citing increased engagement and more effective ROI measures as reasons for the Enterprise Suite, Thinaire has been working with leading brands to create an solution for NFC. Thinaire recognizes that the jump to NFC will alter the way […]

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have created a verification mechanism that may eliminate the security weaknesses associated with NFC. The new software — developed under director and founder of UAB’s Security and Privacy In Emerging Computing and Networking Systems (SPIES) Nitesh Saxena — is capable of determining the distance between a valid […]

At the Intel Developer Forum, MasterCard announced its intention to partner with the chip-maker to provide NFC-enabled laptops, enabling them to act as credit card terminals. The initiative would allow for an online shopper to simply tap their card or phone to the computer to complete a transaction. In effect, this means that shoppers would […]

DeviceFidelity is partnering with Vincento Payment Solutions and MasterCard to bring its moneto NFC wallet service to the European market. Later this year, UK iPhone users will be able to sign up online to receive an iCaisse4X protective case that attaches to the iPhone to enable contactless payments. Moneto uses a prepaid MasterCard, which can […]

Google has announced that Oct. 17 will mark the end of the Google Prepaid Card on Google Wallet. The company said that since adding support for all debit and credit cards from Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover last month, Google Wallet no longer needs a prepaid card to mimic debit-style transactions. Starting Sept. 17, […]

French supermarket chain Casino Group has launched an NFC mobile application designed to streamline the in-store shopping experience. Developed alongside NFC specialist ThinkandGo, the mCasino app enables shoppers to tap NFC-tagged items with their mobile phones to add them to a virtual shopping cart, as well as receive any discounts, coupons, or other information about […]

HP has unveiled an NFC-enabled desktop PC – the SpectreONE AiO. The all-in-one PC runs on Windows 8 and features a 23.6-inch flush-glass full HD display integrated into a slim 11.5 millimeter-thin body, which houses, among the other components, the latest Intel processor and a NVIDIA 1GB graphics card. The SpectreOne also comes with a […]

HID Global has expanded its ICLASS SE platform with two additions: the standards-based iCLASS Seos credential and support for the industry-standard Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP). iCLASS Seos features a standards-based card edge and is portable for use on NFC smart phones so that customers can utilize smart cards, mobile devices or both within their […]

Visa and PayPal are emerging as consumer favorites amid an ever-growing field of mobile wallet providers, according to a new report from Javelin Strategy & Research. When asked in Javelin’s online survey which mobile wallet provider they would prefer, 15% of consumers chose Visa and 13% chose PayPal. Mobile network operators Verizon and AT&T (i.e. […]

RF IDeas announced that it will upgrade its pcProx and pcProx Plus readers to support NFC and HID iClass SE Secure Identity Object (SIO) technologies. Slated for release in Q4 2012, the upgraded readers will enable employees to redeem ID and access credentials stored on their mobile phones, or any other NFC-enabled device, with just […]