FirstGroup, a UK bus and rail operator, is moving forward with its planned introduction of a smart card ticket system in the town of Bristol, according to a local news brief. The new technology will offer customers touch-in and touch-out contactless payment using their contactless bank cards. This will reduce cash transactions and boarding times, […]

Stagecoach, one of the UK’s largest bus and rail operators, has partnered with mobile operator Everything Everywhere to trial NFC payments in Cambridgeshire, UK. The trial, dubbed “the UK’s first Government-standard commercial deployment of mobile contactless transport ticketing,” enables a small group of bus users to receive, store and validate their bus tickets using their […]

Executives from MasterCard, Sony, Intel and other payments and consumer tech leaders took the stage earlier this week at the Smart Card Alliance’s NFC Solutions Summit 2012 to declare that NFC is coming soon, and when it does, it will enable a broad array of applications that will enhance the consumer experience at the point-of-sale […]

Transport for London (TfL) has hit a speed bump on its plan to implement contactless “wave and pay” technology across its transport network, according to Computerworld UK. The transport originally made plans in October 2010 to introduce contactless payments ahead of the 2012 London Olympic Games this summer. However, due to “complexities with the technology” […]

Nine out of 10 previous users of contactless mobile payments are likely to use the technology again in the near future, according to eDigitalResearch’s new Mobile Payment Index study. The survey also found that, of those that have the NFC technology enabled of their smart phone device, 47% have already used it to make a […]

Vantiv is now offering Ingenico’s NFC and EMV-enabled Telium series point-of-sale products to its financial institutions and merchant customers in the U.S. The Telium readers, which are equipped with Vantiv’s own point-to-point card data encryption solution (P2PE), will help the Vantiv’s U.S. clients make the jump to EMV chip-based and NFC mobile payments, according to […]

Google closed the deal on acquiring Motorola Mobility, according to the company’s official blog. In announcing the buy, Google CEO Larry Page hinted that Google will use Motorola to expand its Google Wallet mobile commerce service. “It’s a well known fact that people tend to overestimate the impact technology will have in the short term, […]

Identive Group announced tomPAY, an NFC-enabled sticker tag that can be affixed to existing mobile phones to enable contactless payments. Based on Identive’s tom (tag on metal) smart inlay technology, tomPAY is manufactured using the same processes as an ISO PVC card. When placed on a phone, tomPAY enables contactless mobile payments in compliance with […]

DLI, manufacturer of tablets, in-vehicle computers, and mobile point-of-sale (POS) devices announced the release of the DLI 9000 rugged mobile tablet and 5-in-1 mobile payment module option. Designed by DLI, the 5-in-1 payment module includes a magnetic-stripe, debit pin pad, contactless payment (NFC), EMV, and bar code scanning. The rugged tablet is an ideal solution […]

C-SAM, a U.S.-based provider of secure mobile transactions technology, has announced a joint initiative with MasterCard to offer a white label mobile wallet solution to mobile operators, retail banks and payment providers in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. According to C-SAM, the solution will be based on the company’s Mobile Transaction Platform (MTP) and […]