Despite very positive feedback from users and merchants following a three-month NFC mobile payments trial in Melbourne, Australia, the bank, mobile operator and credit card company involved in the pilot commented only that they would “continue to explore opportunities in this area in the next few years.” Mobile phone provider Telstra, National Australia Bank and […]

ViVOtech, a Santa Clara, Calif-based provider of contactless and NFC mobile payments infrastructures, has been granted a NFC-related U.S. patent that covers a range of methods, systems and products for over the air provisioning of credit, debit, prepaid, loyalty and other payment or non-payment cards into mobile phone devices via wireless networks or the Internet. […]

Precise Biometrics came in first place in the global SIMagine competition, held annually at the GSMA World Mobile Congress. The biometric vendor won for a mobile aviation solution based on Precise Match-on-SIM and enables fast lane service using fingerprint recognition and mobile phones. Precise Biometrics presented a solution for smart travel, BioXpress – The Queue-less […]

Smart card supplier Oberthur Technologies and semiconductor company NXP say they have completed interoperability tests allowing Oberthur’s Opera FlyBuy NFC SIM card to be used in conjunction with NXP’s PN544 NFC controller to design NFC mobile devices compatible with MIFARE Classic. With its multi-application and remote management capabilities, Opera FlyBuy NFC SIM cards offer flexibility […]

Efici Corp., a Miami-based technology company serving the telecommunications and banking industries, has launched EfiCash, a product that uses a cell phone’s built-in camera to speed up transactions. The system has also been billed as an NFC alternative for the mobile payments platform. Rather than waiting for NFC to be commercially available, EfiCash participants can […]

Santa Clara, Calif.-based ViVOtech, a provider of contactless and NFC mobile payments solutions, announced it has closed $8.6 million extension to its Series C round of funding from its existing investors, bringing the total series C investment to more than $40 million. In today’s worsening economic climate, the move is significant in that it demonstrates […]

Gemalto, NXP and Infineon have introduced a mobile contactless solution compliant with the single wire protocol standard and with NXP’s MIFARE infrastructure. The three companies are demonstrating the new technology at the Mobile World Congress that’s underway in Barcelona, Spain. The handset demonstrated at the show included an NFC controller from NXP complemented by Gemalto’s […]