On Track Innovations has received the first order for its new contactless mobile payment product, COPNI. COPNI (Contactless Payment and NFC Insert) is an NFC add-on device that enables mobile network operators (MNOs) to support NFC functionality and contactless payment applications from major card associations and mass transit ticketing agencies. The solution also allows MNOs […]

Chinese handset maker ZTE has announced plans to bring NFC technology to future ZTE phones. ZTE says it will integrate NXP Semiconductors’ NFC chips into its new line of global smart phones, including Android devices, as well as more entry-level feature phones. ZTE, the world’s number four mobile phone manufacturer, will begin rolling out the […]

Connecthings has introduced an online store that enables anyone to place orders for customized NFC tags. The site, nfctagstore.com, lets customers personalize every aspect of the tag, from its design (picture upload and touch up) to its content (URL, phone number, short messages, vCard, blog address, Twitter account, etc.). The tags are delivered ready-to-use directly […]

GlobalPlatform, the organization which standardizes the management of applications on secure chip technology, has published a white paper that outlines the benefits of introducing and standardizing the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) in mobile devices. The report, titled “The Trusted Execution Environment: Delivering Enhanced Security at a Lower Cost to the Mobile Market,” deals specifically with […]

Oberthur Technologies and Airtel Africa are partnering to launch mobile payments services in fifteen African countries including Kenya, Tanzania and Gabon. Oberthur Technologies is supplying both the NFC SIM and M-Commerce security solutions for the deployment, including customized NFC applets, integrated and specialized point of sale applications and NFC enablers for specific user handsets. According […]

AT4 wireless and Collis have partnered to offer a range of test solutions for the NFC, contactless payment, transit and ID market segments. Collis’s test solutions include the SWP-HCI Test Suites and the GlobalPlatform UICC Configuration Test Suite and Aspects Spy. AT4 will add its wireless NFC and RFID conformance and R&D test tools, including […]

NXP Semiconductors and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) have developed a joint software solution offering secure interfaces between the handset, NFC functionality and secure elements such as the SIM card. The open source solution integrates NXP’s NFC controllers with G&D’s secure software solutions to enable NFC to be integrated into mobile handsets based on the Android […]