NFC software solutions provider Stollman announced a partnership with Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions, an automotive infotainment company, and Funkwerk Dabendorf, a mobile communication solutions provider for the automotive industry, to enable the integration of smart phones into cars via NFC. The Germany-based partners say they will jointly develop a solution that combines NFC, Wireless […]

Orange and Barclaycard are ready to release the first Android smart phone compatible with their Quick Tap contactless payments service. From its debut in May, 2011, Quick Tap has been available only on the Samsung Tocco and Samsung Wave 578. In April, it was announced that Quick Tap would be expanded to NFC-enabled Android handsets. […]

DeviceFidelity has announced a number of updates for its moneto mobile wallet service: A new app feature, “Money Move,” enables iPhone and Android moneto users to send peer-to-peer money transfers to other moneto users free of charge. The moneto microSD card for Android now comes with 4GB of additional storage, and is supported on several […]

Google Wallet may soon move beyond payments and loyalty to incorporate tickets, credentials and other things cluttering your physical wallet, according to Robin Dua, head of product management for Google Wallet. Taking a page out of Apple’s Passbook, the expanded Google Wallet would hold all kinds of digitized information – from boarding passes to work […]

Smart Card Alliance’s Industry Councils will be holding elections to designate steering committees and officers. Five of the six Industry councils will be electing new committees and officers— Access Control, Health care, Identity, Payments and Transportation— as the newly formed Mobile and NFC Council held its election in May of 2012. The councils’ nomination process […]

Oberthur Technologies has announced that its trusted service manager (TSM) platform has been adopted by Australian bank Westpac for its new NFC payments pilot. Using Oberthur’s solution, Westpac will be able to securely issue personalized MasterCard debit cards to the SIM card of pilot participants’ Android handsets. Once the debit card has been issued, customers […]

Audio electronics maker Harman is partnering with Nokia to develop a line of wireless consumer audio products under its JBL brand, starting with an NFC-enabled portable speaker – the JBL PlayUp. Announced just a day after Sony’s own portable NFC speaker, the JBL PlayUp Portable Wireless Speaker connects wirelessly to any existing Nokia Lumia phone […]