Mobile and network security provider AuthenTec has released the AuthenTec AE2750, a fingerprint sensor designed for use in mobile commerce applications. The AE2750 contains many features found in smart sensor designs, such as a 192 pixel by 8 pixel fingerprint sensor array. It also offers hybrid fingerprint matching on a sensor match and host match, […]

Verizon Wireless and HTC have launched a new NFC-enabled handset, the Droid Incredible 4G LTE. Powered by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the phone features a 4-inch super LCD qHD display, 8 megapixel rear-facing camera, 1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor and built-in NFC connectivity. Since the Droid Incredible runs on Android 4.0, users […]

MasterCard has announced PayPass Wallet Services, a new global offering for banks, merchants and partners that will enable customers to make purchases in stores or online using a smart phone or tablet. PayPass Wallet Services includes three distinct components: PayPass Acceptance Network (PayPass Online and PayPass Contactless), PayPass Wallet and PayPass API. PayPass Acceptance Network […]

NFC payment solutions provider DeviceFidelity has expanded its management team with the hiring of Fabrice Jogand-Coulomb as vice president of Product Management and Philippe Martineau as vice president of Business Development. Based out of Aix-en-Provence, France, Fabrice Jogand-Coulomb comes to DeviceFidelity from Sandisk where he was the director of Marketing for Mobile Solutions, in charge […]

Auriemma Consulting Group is set to launch a comprehensive consumer study on the future of the mobile wallet. The study comprises an overview of the current state of the UK mobile wallet space and attempts to answer “What comes next?” after launch. To determine the next stage of the mobile wallet, the study examines the […]

Singapore, Canada, the United States, Kenya and South Korea have topped MasterCard’s newly released Mobile Payments Readiness Index (MPRI), an analysis of 34 countries and their readiness to use three types of mobile payments: person to person, mobile Web commerce and NFC-enabled mobile contactless payments at the point of sale. According to MasterCard, each market […]

16 million NFC SIM cards were shipped in 2011, according to the latest annual report from the SIMalliance, a SIM card trade association. This marks the first time that NFC-enabled SIMs have been shipped in large enough quantities to be included separately in the SIMalliance annual data, according to the organization. The report also found […]