But will its use expand beyond access control and into other card applications? By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor It wasn’t too long ago that contactless technology was considered the Cadillac of card technologies, but decreasing prices and increasing security concerns have placed contactless squarely in the sights of many college campuses. HID Global’s Mark Doi […]

Another NFC pilot has been launched, this one in Australia. Mobile operator Telstra is leading the new pilot along with National Australia Bank, Visa, some 200 consumers and 12 participating merchants in Melbourne. These consumers will be able to download their NAB Visa credit card software application onto their Telstra mobile phone SIM card, enabling […]

Full commercial deployment of near field communication has taken another step forward with the announcement from Giesecke & Devrient and over the air provider Venyon of successful interoperability tests between the companies’ two components. Trusted Service Manager (TSM) offerings provided by Venyon, a joint venture of G&D and Nokia, enable mobile operators and service providers […]

Supermarkets may be the next target market for near field communication phones, at least according to presentations during the recent IT Leadership Summit of the National Retail Federation. One of the presenters, an executive for supermarket chain Cincinnati-based Kroger says NFC phones are a good fit for supermarkets because of their time-saving potential. “Nobody stands […]

The Japanese government’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has announced plans to work with mobile phone makers worldwide to increase the use of Sony’s FeliCa chip in handsets, according to an Associated Press report. The ministry’s work may help speed the adoption of phone-based payments options in western countries. FeliCa-enabled phones have been available […]

While a recent debit card study focused mostly on surcharge-free ATM access and other services banks are using to entice new customers, the 2008 Debit Issuer Study commissioned by PULSE, an ATM/debit network, dealt for the first time with emerging payments technologies, such as contactless and mobile payments. Ten percent of the 62 financial institutions […]

Cabcharge Australia plans to install VeriFone EFTPOS terminals in all 18,000 of its taxi cabs. The new system will support chip and PIN, pen and PIN, contactless and, later, NFC which would allow fares to be paid with cell phones. Cabcharge expects to have the installations complete by December 2009. According to VeriFone, its system […]