NXP Semiconductors implemented Identive Group’s Cashless Betalen mobile payment system in the employee cafeteria at its production facility’s in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Cashless Betalen works with Rabobank’s digital wallet to accept micro-payments when employees tap their mobile phones at payment terminals in the cafeteria. Identive produces the user interface and account management software platform for […]

Proxama is providing the NFC marketing platform for the latest consumer facing mobile campaign from online retailer Very.co.uk. The campaign has recently launched in Liverpool and is using NFC to generate traffic and sales via the retailer’s web site. Built using Proxama’s TapPoint NFC marketing platform, the campaign gives an online brand a high-street presence […]

Smart Card Alliance’s Payments Summit will feature credit giants AmEx, Discover, MasterCard and Visa as well as Isis and the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) to outline U.S. EMV migration and global payments trends. The 6th annual installment of the Summit will take place in Salt Lake City, Utah Feb. 5-7 with pre-conference workshops to be […]

GlobalPlatform has updated its Composition Model, which streamlines security evaluation of NFC contactless mobile applications. First released in 2011, the Composition Model defines a simple certification approach for the security of secure element (SE) products carrying sensitive or basic applications as well as simplifies post-issuance application management. The latest enhancements to the model will be […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the winter 2012 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front […]

NFC is a technology that often captures the attention and ambitions of the technology sector, but puzzlingly enough one of the most promising applications for NFC — payments — is yet to come to fruition. As reported by the Third Screen, this past week’s MIT Forum saw a bittersweet application of NFC technology. Dubbed the […]

MasterCard Europe announced the 2012 milestones for MasterCard PayPass showing that consumers are embracing the Tap&Go payment experience in 26 counties across Europe – including eight new countries in 2012. Since January 2012 growth in cards enabled with PayPass is up more than 50% and top PayPass countries, such as Poland, have more than 50% […]