PayPal has announced the acquisition of Boston-based mobile payments startup FigCard, according to TMCnet. Founded in 2010, FigCard provides a solution that lets merchants accept mobile payments by plugging a special USB device into their cash register or point-of-sale terminal. To pay using the solution, customers need only install the Fig app on their smart […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the availability of a new interactive PDF viewer allowing subscribers a new way to access our print magazines and content. The spring 2011 issue of re:ID is ready and the interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that […]

Mercator Advisory Group has released a new report examining how smart phones, NFC and biometrics will “transform” the world of payments and Web authentication. According to the report, “Authentication at the Edge: NFC, Smart phones, and a New Model for Payments Confidence,” NFC-equipped smart phones will enable Americans to utilize new security features, such as […]

This year’s Open Mobile Summit in London will focus on NFC and the mobile wallet. The conference, held in early June, will feature a segment called ‘Opening the mobile wallet,’ in which the panel of industry CEO’s and senior strategists will examine the key business drivers of mobile contactless payment, as well as its real-life […]

Lotte, one of the largest food and shopping groups in South Korea, has begun accepting contactless mobile payments from mobile carrier KT, according to Akihabara News. Lotte customers with Samsung Galaxy S II phones are now able to tap and pay for items at check out via KT’s NFC network. Shoppers who spend more than […]

Samsung has announced it will bring its NFC-enabled Nexus S smart phone to the Indian market, according to Mobiletor.com. The Nexus S, which operates on Google’s Android 2.3 “Gingerbread,” was initially released December 2010 in the U.S. and the UK. The handset, manufactured in collaboration with Google, features a 4″ curved LCD touchscreen, 1 GHz […]

Reach Media Group (RMG) is partnering with Blue Bite to bring NFC technology to 75,000 of RMG’s digital out-of-home (DOOH) screens in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Boston, according to ReadWrite Mobile. RMG’s NFC-enabled digital screens, which will be deployed in malls, theaters, bars, clubs, gyms, airplanes, taxis, etc. later this year, […]