The earthquake in Haiti last week has spurred conscientious mobile users to donate in droves, according to digitaltransactions.net. As of Monday morning, more than 2 million donors had given $21 million in $10 increments to the American Red Cross’s Haitian earthquake-relief effort through mobile payment. According to Digital Transactions, the disaster has revealed mobile payment […]

2010 will be the key year in deciding whether mobile Internet or NFC-based applications will emerge as the preferred form of mobile contactless payment, according to a report on FierceFinanceIT. Although leading global mobile network operators, banks, retailers, transport operators and others are expected to finalize their NFC business plans in the next year–according to […]

NFC mobile payment is expected to begin replacing cash wallets starting in 2011, according to Sarah Clark’s “The Road to Commercial Deployment.” In her report, Clark predicts that in the next two years banks and mobile network providers will go head to head in a bidding war to control mobile payment, thereby driving the industry. […]

The NFC Forum is inviting NFC developers and researchers to watch a special webcast for this year’s NFC Forums Global Competition. Competition organizers and previous prize winner Michael Elliott will be on hand to discuss the details of the contest: how to enter; how the process works; what the judges are looking for and what […]

Fagor, Ikerlan-IK4 and others are completing an award-winning project that uses NFC technology to make the home a more comfortable place for the elderly, according to basqueresearch.com. The project, which recently won a gold medal at the European Eureka-Itea R+D program, focused on integrating NFC into systems of teleassistance, telemonitoring and domotic functions. For example, […]

GlobalPlatform has announced that it will hold a one-day card specification training session at The Langham Hotel, Hong Kong on March 16, to educate delegates on the benefits of adopting open and interoperable specifications for mobile UICC implementations. The session will coincide with Cartes in Asia, March 16-18, to accommodate delegates that are attending this […]

By Cindy Alexander, Identity Solutions Manager, MorphoTrak Three-dimensional photo technology strikes the delicate balance necessary for driver licenses between ownership, privacy, ease of enrollment and cost. This technology provides a first-line security feature that is obvious at a glance and simple to validate. Laser-engraved 3D portrait technology is difficult to counterfeit and inherently establishes ownership […]