The European Telecommunications Standards Institute and GlobalPlatform have agreed to share industry and technical knowledge and synchronize specification development that will advance mobile services across a range of industries. GlobalPlatform, the international specification body for the smart card infrastructure, and ETSI’s Smart Card Platform committee, the standardization body which provided the core specifications for more […]

Chip maker INSIDE Contactless and Connecthings, a provider of tags and location and time-based content management systems, have announced a partnership to drive NFC deployments beyond payment and transit applications. The two companies intend to develop, promote and commercialize the Wave-Me NFC services platform, a solution carriers and third-party service providers can use to give […]

The latest research from the Smart Card Alliance’s Contactless and Mobile Payments Council has identified issuer and merchant best practices for driving consumer use of contactless payments. The council studied the effectiveness of certain issuer and merchant activities in marketing, promotion and consumer and employee awareness to determine the best way to make consumers more […]

UPM Raflatac, a manufacturer of RFID tags and inlays and Hansaprint, a Finnish printing house specializing in marketing solutions, are launching an NFC tag portal that will enable customers to create and buy NFC-integrated print products online. The products that can be ordered from TagAge include labels, patches, stickers and posters. All products can be […]

Consult Hyperion, a UK-based consultancy that specializes in the fields of secure transactions, contact and contactless multi-application smart card and mobile technology, is the latest company to become a GlobalPlatform member. Consult Hyperion joins the international specification body for smart card infrastructure at the observer level. Joining at GlobalPlatform will enable Consult Hyperion to stay […]

Revenues from smart posters and mobile coupons are likely to drive NFC growth over the next few years, according to a new report from UK-based Juniper Research. The study, “NFC Mobile Payments & Marketing Opportunities: Forecasts & Analysis 2009 – 2014,” predicts NFC mobile payments will exceed $30 billion within three years. Vendors are developing […]

Medford, Ore.-based Mobifyer, an enabler of contactless, RFID, and NFC solutions, has teamed with suppliers TranZfinity, eGrips and SCM to jointly launch a series of developers contests to increase the adoption and acceptance of contactless, RFID, and NFC technologies with existing in-market mobile phones. Submissions to the “Ideas That Mobify” contests will be judged for […]