Paytoo has announced the addition of a multi-currency mobile payment platform to its SIM-based mobile wallet. According to Paytoo, the company’s mobile wallet service now supports international, mobile multi-currency transfers across the globe in real time, as well as online mobile payments and prepaid account top up through 185 mobile operators in 85 countries. “Real-time […]

Ingenico has announced it is joining Globus hypermarkets in the first mobile payments pilot in the Czech Republic. Launched at the end of July, the six month trial involves 400 clients of Telefonica, Citibank and Commercial Bank using Samsung Star 5230 NFC-enabled handsets to make contactless payments at Globus super stores in and around Prague. […]

Samsung has released a Bada 2.0 software development kit (SDK) in anticipation of launching several new smart phones later this year, according to v3.co.uk. First announced at the beginning of 2011, Bada 2.0 features support for NFC, HTML5, Wi-Fi direct sharing and voice recognition in addition to a number of other updates. To kick start […]

GlobalPlatform is inviting service and platform providers, software vendors and device manufacturers to attend a free, one-day seminar to learn how the mobile industry is coming together to standardize security run-time execution in mobile handsets. The event, titled “Leveraging the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) to Develop Secure Applications on Mobile Devices,” aims to facilitate the […]

Maui High School, located in Kahului, Hawaii, has adopted an automated meal card system now requiring students to use their student ID when purchasing meals in the cafeteria. Students will each be issued a new student ID badge which links to a meal account. When meals are purchased, funds are taken from the student’s meal […]

Nokia has announced the launch of three new mass market NFC-enabled smart phones. Running on Nokia’s new Symbian Belle OS, the Nokia 200, 701 and 600 will come equipped with NFC technology for “pairing and sharing functionality,” Nokia said in a release. This will enable all three of the new smart phones to quickly share […]

Gentag has announced the receipt of a patent for its disposable NFC wireless sensors. Patent 7,969,307 covers Gentag’s disposable wireless skin patches as well as other NFC sensors for consumer applications, such as payments, medication, food safety, pathogen detection, cosmetics and M2M markets. With the issuance of this patent, Gentag says it is in good […]

ERPLY has announced the launch of a new POS reader that hooks up to an Apple iPad or iPhone to accept credit card and NFC payments. According to ERPLY, the mobile device attaches directly to the charging port of an iPad or iPhone, enabling secure transactions on the ERPLY POS software platform. The reader also […]

Universal Secure Registry LLC (USR), a mobile payment security technology and identity authentication company, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark office issued the company patent US 8,001,055 B2 on covering key aspects of the company’s proprietary technology for secure financial transactions. This new patent covers authenticating an individual’s identity using three factors – […]

The Smart Card Alliance Latin America (SCALA) chapter has released a white paper designed to help Latin American and Caribbean countries migrate to EMV. The paper, entitled “Card Payments Roadmap in Latin America: How Does EMV Impact the Payments Infrastructure?” is an effort of SCALA to educate its constituents on the considerations surrounding the migration […]