AT4 wireless and Collis have partnered to offer a range of test solutions for the NFC, contactless payment, transit and ID market segments. Collis’s test solutions include the SWP-HCI Test Suites and the GlobalPlatform UICC Configuration Test Suite and Aspects Spy. AT4 will add its wireless NFC and RFID conformance and R&D test tools, including […]

NXP Semiconductors and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) have developed a joint software solution offering secure interfaces between the handset, NFC functionality and secure elements such as the SIM card. The open source solution integrates NXP’s NFC controllers with G&D’s secure software solutions to enable NFC to be integrated into mobile handsets based on the Android […]

VeriFone Systems has announced that its contactless payment acceptance system has been chosen by Garanti Bank of Turkey for its nationwide integrated NFC SIM mobile payment program. Garanti and Turkish mobile network operator Avea recently moved from pilot phase to commercial availability of their system, which uses NFC-enabled SIM cards to turn existing mobile phones […]

Orange has announced plans to offer Samsung’s new NFC-enabled Wave 578 in certain European markets this year. Orange says the Samsung handset will be launched in Spain, Poland and France from Q2 this year. The French telecom expects that by the end of 2011 more than half of all new smart phone models to be […]

Contactless network provider accells has announced a partnership with mobile financial service provider Fundamo to bring NFC retail payment and other point of sales services to emerging markets. The partners say they will leverage Fundamo’s 50 existing mobile financial service deployments across more than 40 countries worldwide for the NFC rollout, including 27 countries in […]

DeviceFidelity has announced that it will demonstrate the newest version of its In2Pay technology for iPhone 4 at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona. The In2Pay V3 solution comprises an NFC-enabled protective case (called the iCaisse 4) with microSD slot that transforms the iPhone4 into a mobile wallet, as well as delivers additional NFC […]

Schreiner University, Kerrville, Texas, will be streamlining payments on campus through integration of CASHNet ePayment and CASHNet Smartpay provided by Higher One Payments. Payments at Schreiner are currently processed manually through checks, credit cards and money orders. “Higher One will save our staff time by streamlining the cash processing function,” said controller Barbara von Brandt-Siemers. […]

Singapore-based CASSIS is partnering with Atos Worldline, the electronic transactions division of IT service provider Atos Origins, to deploy NFC services in Europe. The partners say they aim to implement NFC solutions enabling banks, public transport operators and telecoms to deploy secure contactless applications for payments, transport season tickets, loyalty cards, authentication and more. “This […]

Sweden’s Arcontia has announced the launch its next generation embedded processor board for e-ticketing and e-payment, the ARC1800. The high performance processor board supports contactless ISO 14443 A/B RFID readers for integration into different smart card devices, including contactless smart card validators, driver consoles, turnstiles, Add Value Machines and Ticket Vending Machines. Loaded with an […]

In an effort to encourage dynamic data authentication through merchant deployment of EMV-compatible chip terminals capable of processing contact or both contact and contactless payments, Visa announced a new Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance program. Under the program, Visa’s Technology Innovation Program will eliminate merchant’s requirement to validate their compliance with […]