GlobalPlatform will host a one day card specifications technology training session to educate the U.S. market on the benefits of open and interoperable specifications for smart card deployments. The session is scheduled for July 22 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco. Following the success of GlobalPlatform’s first card training session, which took place […]

U.S. Bank explores future of identity and payment cards with high tech pilots With today’s tech-happy consumers, providing them with the latest gadget or innovative service could lead to a happier bank customer. Banking today is about more than just parking your money in a brick and mortar facility or even with an online system. […]

PingPing, a brand by Belgacom for mobile and micro payments, and touchatag, an Alcatel-Lucent venture, have teamed to define a business model that combines PingPing’s payment system for mobile phones and touchatag’s contactless services, such as interactive advertising, loyalty programs and coupon services. By this fall of this year, Belgian consumers will be able to […]

Tetherball, an Indianapolis-based mobile loyalty and rewards solutions provider, has unveiled an RFID-based mobile marketing platform involving a tiny RFID chip called a Tetherball Tag that’s affixed to a customer’s mobile phone. Tetherball clients are then able to send offers to their customers via standard text messaging. These coupon-type offers can be redeemed electronically using […]

Fort Lee, NJ-based On Track Innovations, a contactless smart card solutions provider, says it has been selected by E-Kent, an automatic fare collection company in Turkey, to provide transportation payment solutions based on OTI’s Smart Sticker product and Saturn 6000 contactless reader. The system calls for making available alternative distribution channels for E-Kent’s main transportation […]

The NFC Forum has unveiled its “target mark,” what its chairman called a “milestone in the global commercialization of NFC technology.” The new N-Mark, introduced during an NFC Forum Web cast today, is designed to show consumers where they need to touch to activate the NFC interaction. The NFC Forum N-Mark is available to anyone […]

UK-based mobile communications provider O2 is demonstrating an NFC application that can be used by patients and home health care workers. The system is on display at the INSITE09 conference. Developed in partnership with technology provider Reslink, O2 Homecare helps home health care workers and patients access and share information using contactless technology on a […]