NXP Semiconductors and Oberthur Technologies have signed licensing agreement enabling Oberthur to integrate NXP’s MIFARE technology into its SIM cards. Under the agreement, Oberthur will expand its existing UICC product portfolio to add MIFARE DESFire and MIFARE Plus. According to NXP, MIFARE is the most widespread contactless smart card technology in the world. Furthermore, NXP […]

ISIS, the new mobile payments venture formed by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, has announced the recruitment of U.S. merchants, according to Digital Transaction News. ISIS’s head of sales Jim Stapleton told DTN that an unspecified number of merchants are now officially on board with the program, but declined to reveal any names as of yet. […]

German automotive supplier Continental has teamed up with NXP Semiconductors to create a concept car built on the seamless integration of NFC technology. Introduced at the Mobile World Congress last week, the car uses NFC to enable drivers access to a variety of new interactions. For starters, the driver can open their car door by […]

DeviceFidelity has announced that its In2Pay microSD solution will be supported on a variety of new smart phones, including the Blackberry Tour 9630, the Android-based Samsung Epic 4G and the Samsung Fascinate, Mesmerize and Showcase models. DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay is a plug and play mobile contactless solution that transforms smart phones into interactive mobile payment devices. […]

France’s Twinlinx is demonstrating its MyMax NFC payment sticker at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, according to techradar.com. Introduced in France last year, MyMax gives any Bluetooth-enabled smart phone NFC functionality for a fraction of the cost of an NFC phone, allowing users to make contactless payments by simply slapping the £21 sticker […]

idOnDemand has introduced a One-Time Password (OTP) mobility solution using a contactless smart card and near field communication-enabled mobile phones. With the idOnDemand SmartID mobile technology users touch their idOnDemand Personal Identity Verification (PIV) compatible corporate ID to facilitate a secure login from their NFC-enabled tablet computer, smart phone or hand-held mobile phone. Users touch […]

ID solutions provider Morpho has partnered with Simlink to launch a new key fob that equips any Wi-Fi enabled mobile phone with NFC technology. The key fob contains a Morpho NFC-enabled SIM card with a secure application that hooks up to a mobile phone via Wi-Fi technology provided by Simlink. “Equipped in this way, the […]