Toro Development Ltd. (TORO) and KASIKORNBANK PCL. (KBank) are working together to launch the best possible mobile contactless user-experience for their customers in a pre-launch trial in Bangkok That started from the end of July 2010. Toro’s have announced on their web site that “mobile contactless technologies have proven that they provide the best possible… Read More
MMA Global Mobile Marketing Awards Deadline Extended
One Additional Week to Submit Nominations for Mobile Marketing Industry’s Top Honors What: The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) today announced a one-week deadline extension until August 27 to enter the sixth annual Global Mobile Marketing Awards, which recognize exceptional campaigns, companies and people leading innovation, demonstrating best practices and setting the standards of excellence within… Read More
NXP’s SmartMX selected to power new German contactless National ID cards.
NXP Semiconductors N.V. have announced that its SmartMX secure contactless microcontroller chip has been chosen to power the new German contactless National Identity card (Neuer Personalausweis). The German government has selected NXP as the supplier of an inlay solution containing a dedicated SmartMX chip, packaged in an ultra-thin module. Issuance of German contactless ID cards,… Read More
Visa Europe, DeviceFidelity and Akbank announce Europe’s first launch of microSD-based contactless mobile payments
Visa Europe, Europe’s leading payment system, has announced that it is launching Europe’s first microSD-based mobile payment systems in Turkey with its technology partner, DeviceFidelity, and Akbank, one of Turkey’s leading retail banks. The project will demonstrate how the microSD memory card slot common to many of today’s handsets can bring mobile payments solutions to… Read More
Oberthur does FlyBuy on contactless stickers
Oberthur Technologies, a provider of contactless payment technologies, has seen an increase in the demand for its contactless sticker product, FlyBuy Sticker, with banks and issuers throughout the United States – including Citi®, which started issuing Oberthur-manufactured Stickers in June, and several other issuers internationally in Switzerland, Poland, England and Korea. Approved and developed in… Read More
Submit a speech idea for the Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference 2011
Submit an Abstract to speak at CISC 2011 XThe organisers of the 5th Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference (CISC) are delighted to open the call for papers for next year’s event which is to be held in London on April 14th, 2011. We therefore invite potential speakers to submit an abstract for consideration, especially those individuals… Read More
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