Visa Inc. is getting behind the adoption of contact and contactless EMV in the U.S. as a way to prepare the payments infrastructure for near field communication. The company will start offering incentives to merchants in 2012 to make the switch to contact and contactless point-of-sales terminals. Chip technology aims to accelerate mobile payments but […]

C-SAM has signed an agreement to provide ISIS with its wallet management platform and software development kit (SDK). According to C-SAM, the platform will enable ISIS to offer smart phone users a “comprehensive mobile wallet” for conducting NFC-enabled transactions and other services. C-SAM’s says its SDK will also enable independent service providers to build their […]

Google looks poised for an acquisition of BlackBerry smart phone manufacturer Research In Motion (RIM), according to Anton Wahlman, a former telecom stock analyst with UBS, Needham & Co., and ThinkEquity. The deal, which Whalman says has a 50-50 shot at happening, would give Google access to RIM’s celebrated security technology in order to better […]

Developers for mobile technology such as Google’s Android operating system have been trying to bring near field communication (NFC), or a means of utilizing basic authentication and personal devices to pay for items instead of cash or credit cards, according to a technology review article. While such technology has become commonplace in some Asian countries, […]

ABI Research has released a new report predicting that China will see more than $8 billion in NFC payments by 2014. According ABI, Chinese device manufacturers and operators like ZTE are keen to move ahead with contactless mobile payments. This is due in part to an enormous market with more than 868 million cell phone […]

RIM has announced the launch of its new BlackBerry OS7 operating system along with five brand new smart phones – two which will be NFC-enabled, according to Finextra. Both the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and Bold 9930 will come equipped with NFC chips, making them ready for a host applications including contactless payments, tag reading, device […]

Samsung has announced a new entry-level smart phone equipped with NFC technology, according to ITproportal.com. The Player City handset is powered by the MIDP 2.1 platform with a Dolphin browser and features a 3-inch capacitive touchscreen, 30MB of onboard storage, Bluetooth, USB, Wi-Fi and a 3.2-megapixel camera in addition to NFC. The phone will also […]