Episode 144: Implanting an NFC chip
Credential Convergence Takes Hold in Key Industries
Health, finance lead charge to unite PACs and LACS
Ticketless, cashless Lollapalooza
NFC wristbands replace tickets and cash at mega music fest
Non-payment use cases for NFC
Fall 2016 Regarding ID
23 Feb, 2012Boku to offer mobile paments through MasterCard
Online payments provider Boku has teamed up with MasterCard to launch Boku Accounts – a new mobile service that enables customers to make NFC payments anywhere MasterCard PayPass is accepted. Offered through a mobile subscriber’s mobile network operator, Boku Accounts also enables merchants to create loyalty programs as well as send targeted offers to customers via […]
23 Feb, 2012NXP to showcase six new NFC apps at MWC
NXP Semiconductors announced that six NFC service providers will showcase their solutions at NXP’s Mobile World Congress booth next week in Barcelona. Foursquare, DeviceFidelity and several others will gather at NXP’s “NFC concept café” to demonstrate NFC solutions powered by NXP’s mobile NFC technology, NFC tags, and contactless readers. First up, Touchanote works together with […]
23 Feb, 2012Report: Mobile biometrics to $161M by 2015
Goode Intelligence revealed in its new report, Mobile Phone Biometric Security Analysis and Forecasts 2011-2015, that mobile phone biometric security products and services generated just over $30 million in 2011 and that the market will grow to over $161 million in revenue by 2015. “We believe a biometric groundswell is building for smart mobile devices. […]
23 Feb, 2012G&D lends NFC SIMs to Italian mobile payments pilot
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has announced that it is supplying NFC-enabled SIM cards to Italian mobile operator Nòverca for a mobile payments pilot. Six hundred employees and customers of Banca Intesa Sanpaolo can now use their mobile phones to make contactless payments at more than 3,000 point of sale terminals in the northern Italian cities […]
23 Feb, 2012Oberthur to provide TSM for NFC rollout in France
Oberthur Technologies has signed a contract with Société Générale, one of Europe’s largest banks, for the deployment of NFC services in France this year. As per the agreement, Oberthur will provide Société Générale with its trusted service manager (TSM) solution, enabling the bank to issue its payment application to customers using NFC-enabled phones. According to […]
22 Feb, 2012Samsung unveils two new NFC-enabled Galaxy handests
Samsung has announced two new NFC-enabled additions to the Galaxy smartphone line: the Galaxy Ace 2 and the Galaxy mini 2. Slated for an April launch in the UK, the Ace 2 sports a 3.8-inch WVGA screen, 800MHz processor, HSDPA 14.4 connectivity, GPS/GLONASS, 1,500mAh battery and 4GB of internal storage, with NFC connectivity listed as […]
22 Feb, 2012Panasonic to launch waterproof NFC phone for Android
Panasonic Europe has unveiled its new Eluga smart phone, an slim waterproof Android handset that features built-in NFC technology. Weighing in at just 103g, the Eluga packs a 4.3 inch, 960×540 capacitive OLED QHD screen onto a slender 23×62.0×7.8mm frame, making it one of the lightest and slimmest Android smart phones in Europe. The Eluga […]
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