Episode 144: Implanting an NFC chip
Credential Convergence Takes Hold in Key Industries
Health, finance lead charge to unite PACs and LACS
Ticketless, cashless Lollapalooza
NFC wristbands replace tickets and cash at mega music fest
Non-payment use cases for NFC
Fall 2016 Regarding ID
17 Sep, 2008Cartes & IDentification 2008 focuses on U.S. smart card market
The United States, the largest payment card market in the world, will be the featured country during the 23rd edition of CARTES & Identification Nov. 4 through Nov. 6 in Paris. The country has adopted contactless payments as well as secure identity programs such as the 13 million Common Access Cards that have already been […]
15 Sep, 2008TeleCom and Mastercard team up to enable mobile phone payment
Telecom Italia, an Italian land-based and mobile phone company, has entered a partnership with MasterCard that enables customers to make main payments from their mobile phone, according to an AGI News article. By using Near Field Communication technology a customer will be able to perform transactions such as recharge prepaid cards or transfer money between […]
10 Sep, 2008Alcatel-Lucent’s Tikitag anticipates NFC phone growth
Alcatel-Lucent has introduced a new consumer-oriented RFID product, the Tikitag, at this week’s DemoFall 2008 conference. The new system offers a new way to link offline objects to the digital world. The new system uses tikitags, mailing-label sized RFID-enabled tags which can be stuck to objects or papers. The tags contain data that, when scanned […]
10 Sep, 2008Mobile & NFC Payment Strategies
Dates: November 24 – 27, 2008 Venue: Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal Location: Budapest, Hungary URL: http://www.iir-conferences.com/mobilepayment Description: Now in its fourth year, the conference will again draw together expert speakers from across the mobile communications and financial services industries sharing vital business insights into how their organisations are successfully delivering payment and banking services to […]
10 Sep, 2008Juniper predicts 700 million NFC cell phones by 2013
The latest study from UK-based Juniper Research projects that 700 million mobile subscribers globally will have phones equipped with NFC contactless technology by 2013. That’s still less than half of the estimated two billion cell phones currently in use. In the second report in its Mobile Payment Markets series, Juniper found that there is a […]
09 Sep, 2008ViVOtech, G&D confirm interoperability with over-the-air NFC infrastructure
Two companies fluent in NFC technology, particularly in the mobile payments arena, say their respective NFC-related offerings have achieved interoperability following field testing. German-based Giesecke & Devrient announced that applications stored on its NFC-enabled SIM cards can be managed through over-the-air provisioning server software developed by ViVOtech, Santa Clara, Calif. The G&D and ViVOtech interoperable […]
08 Sep, 2008Floundering or Burgeoning? Examining the contactless payments market
By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor The state of the contactless payments industry is up for debate depending on whom you ask. Recent issuance statistics have led some to claim victory, while others have interpreted the same numbers in a much more negative manner. “You are definitely going to get a glass half full glass half […]
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