Thirteen French cities are receiving government support to launch NFC-enabled mobile contactless payment and information services, according to scottrade.com. The initiative is backed by the Ministry of Industry, which will provide consultancy and engineering assistance for a number of NFC projects ranging from public transit mobile ticketing to m-payments for school lunches. Among the cities […]

Japan’s Toppan Printing is working on a sleek new NFC-enabled device that costs a mere $25, according to intomobile.com. The new device, which is only 3.9 mm thick and about the size of a business card, features a built in 2.2 inch 320 x 240 pixel screen and interactive button controls that allow users to […]

UK’s MoCo is offering a new NFC-based service that lets users track people and assets with NFC handsets, according to mobile news. The new system, called Touch, uses RFID tags to enable organizations to keep track of their assets across a supply chain, or confirm the location of employees in the workplace, says mobile news. […]

By Brian Rogal, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications The University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business is always looking for technical innovations they can introduce on campus to better educate students. They need to be familiar with the latest technology for us to be seen as legitimate by the industry, says David Corsun, the director of […]

The European Payments Council and the Global System for Mobile communications Association issued a while paper on mobile contactless payments, describing the life cycle management, such as distribution, configuration, activation and maintenance, of a bank’s contactless payment application when integrated with a mobile phone. The paper also discusses the role of the trusted service manager, […]

Swedish company Cale Parking Systems is testing an NFC-enabled parking system in Poland based on MIFARE that will include readers, cards and charging stations. The Cale MIFARE system’s pilot project involves two Web terminals accepting contactless payment, one for parking and another for public transport, buses and trams. The terminals complement the larger standard ticketing […]

Dynamic Card Solutions, an Englewood, Colo.-based card provider recently acquired by Datacard Group, has announced that its mobile payments personalization platform now supports Tyfone’s SideTap MicroSD secure memory card for NFC payments. The CardWizard Perso-to-Go platform personalizes at the branch or back office level, cardholder information onto the chip embedded in Tyfone’s MicroSD secure memory […]