MasterCard Canada, in partnership with Citi Cards Canada and Bell Mobility, has completed the first near-field communications trial of Mobile PayPass in Canada. This was the first trial in Canada to use Bell Mobility’s wireless network enabling participants to make purchases using their mobile device at MasterCard PayPass acceptance locations across Canada. The four-month closed […]

While a Frost & Sullivan study warns of uneven market conditions in the Asia Pacific smart card market, countries with a strong contactless infrastructure already in place shouldn’t see a significant decline in smart card production. In fact, according to the report, some countries in the region, such as Japan and South Korea, have continued […]

Visa has put together a Malaysian partnership that includes a bank, a cell phone manufacturer and a mobile phone carrier to launch its first commercial mobile payments service using NFC technology. Consumers are now able to purchase an NFC-enabled mobile phone off the shelf and use it to make Visa payWave-enabled transactions at the point-of-sale […]

Scotland-based i4 Product Design has developed for another Scottish company, Tailwind Solutions, a contactless card payment solution for retailers that works in an EMV environment, allowing consumers to pay with their NFC-compliant phones or contactless EMV cards. The PoS Paddle Tap-It, which launched at the Contactless Intelligence Conference and Exhibition in London last week, is […]

AuthenTec, a developer of biometric technology, has announced that ASUS will be including AuthenTec’s fingerprint sensors in its netbooks for increased security. The netbook, a small simplified laptop, is the first of its kind to come standard with fingerprint sensors.   

Citibank Singapore partnered with Visa and M1, a mobile operator, to deploy a three-month near field communication pilot in Singapore, according tot he E-Commerce Journal. The trial will started in May and will include 300 Citi M1 Platinum Visa cardholders. Participants will be given a Nokia 6212 classic handset. Participants of the experiment will be […]

KORE Telematics, a Reston, Va. digital wireless services provider specializing in machine-to-machine communications, and ITN International, a Bethesda, Md. provider of information exchange tools for trade shows, are providing a full service wireless lead generation solution for CTIA Wireless 2009 April 1-3 in Las Vegas. Powered by the KORE network and running on a Nokia […]