NXP Semiconductors has just joined the European Supply Chain Institute’s (ESCI) ‘Supply Chain Carbon Council,’ an organization dedicated to carbon emissions management and reduction. NXP is joining the Council as a Lead Sponsor of the multi-year program promoting the application of wireless technologies, such as RFID and NFC, to the problem of accurately tracking emissions […]

Watchdata has announced the continued successful deployment of its SIMpass mobile payment solution in China. Around 200,000 China Telecom subscribers will soon be able to make low-value purchases in 11 cities of Jiangsu Province with local transit, e-purse or campus applications stored on SIMpass mobile cards. SIMpass was first launched with China Telecom in December […]

Germany’s Stollmann announced the first chip set independent NFC application programming interface (API) for Android. The “NFaCe+A” API supports all NFC modes and features and can be used with different chip sets and NFC protocol stacks, including those from STMicroelectronics, NXP, Innovison, Polaric and more. The API, which is targeted for developers of standard NFC […]

After last week’s premature press release bungle, DeviceFidelity has officially announced the availability of its In2Pay solution for iPhone, designed to enable iPhone users to make contactless transactions. The solution combines DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay microSD technology with an NFC-enabled protective case that adds mobile contactless capability. By placing a removable In2Pay microSD into the protective case, […]

China Unionpay has formed a mobile payments industry alliance with a group of Chinese banks, wireless operators and handset manufacturers, according to finextra.com. China Unionpay says the alliance’s goal is to help different industries–transportation, commercial retail, hospital–coordinate efforts to create a single, open m-payments platform defined by the ISO standard. The group comprises 18 banks, […]

An Oxfam store in Manchester, UK is trying out a system that will enable people to attach stories to the objects that they donate using RFID tags, according to a Wired news article. When a person donates an item to the store they are asked to share a brief narrative about the item into a […]

McDonald’s and Tribal DDB of Chicago are building a Facebook app that will allow users to update their status by “checking in” at the fast food chain, according to Advertising Age. McDonald’s will be the first marketer to take advantage of this new geolocation service. This may even lead to McDonald’s using RFID tags to […]