Smart Telecommunications Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone company, announced it is testing an NFC service that allows consumers to make contactless payments with their mobile phones. The trial is part of the Pay-Buy-Mobile initiative of the GSM Association, a global trade group of mobile phone operators, which recently recommended that […]

The Mobile & NFC Payment Strategies conference to discuss key business, market and technical challenges to developing a profitable and flexible payment portfolio will be held in Budapest, Hungary Nov. 24-27. Examining the global growth in mobile banking, money transfer and remittance services and national and international m-payment standardization efforts are among the agenda topics. […]

SCM Microsystems Inc. introduced its latest contactless reader, the SCL010. The device is a 13.56 MHz multiprotocol reader that supports the expansion in contactless schemes for payment, electronic government, secure transactions and access control. SCM’s SCL010 is an interoperable and multiprotocol reader that supports all 13.56 MHz contactless technologies, including ISO 14443 type A&B, FeliCa, […]

The Global System for Mobile communications Association, a mobile industry trade group, has called for full NFC functionality to be built into commercially available mobile handsets by mid-2009, so consumers can benefit from mobile payment services as soon as possible. Meeting in Macau, China, the GSMA board endorsed the single wire protocol’ standard to provide […]

TeliaSonera, a Swedish telecommunication services provider to Nordic and Baltic countries, and VingCard, a member of the ASSA ABLOY Group, recently demonstrated at the International Hotel/Motel and Restaurant Show in New York, what could be the newest hotel innovation–allowing guests to enter their hotel rooms using just an NFC-compatible mobile phone. “VingCard has installed over […]

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, better known by its acronym SEPTA, has requested proposals for its new smart card fare collection system, leaving it up to the bidding companies to specifically spell out how such a system can be implemented. However, the organization wants a system that will allow passengers to use credit cards, prepaid […]

Dates: May 4 – 7, 2009 Venue: Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Location: New Orleans, Louisiana URL: http://www.ctst.com/CTST09 Description: The CTST 2009 Conference and Exhibition is the premier advanced payments and security conference in the Americas. For seventeen years CTST has been the definitive forum for networking and information sharing among major innovators, system integrators, […]