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
Social Media is an unavoidable topic for the UK.
Interesting video from Simply Zesty, a UK-based online PR and social media firm, who has put together a cool little film based on social media-related figures for the UK. See it below.
KASIKORNBANK, AIS and Gemalto Bring NFC to Mobile Users in Thailand
Gemalto have announced it will provide its Trusted Services Management (TSM) service to support the launch of Near-Field Communication (NFC) applications in Thailand. The service is the first pan-Asian deployment for Gemalto’s certified TSM center in Taiwan. This pioneering project has Gemalto partnering with KASIKORNBANK, the country’s second largest bank, and with Advanced Info Services… Read More
Little Chef is the first restaurant group to fully adopt contactless in UK
It’s all happening at once isn’t it. First the C-op, then AMT Coffee and now Little Chef have announces that it will also be deploying a contactless payment system using Barclaycard technology across all 173 Little Chef roadside restaurants, including its Coffee Tempo brand and Burger King franchises. Following successful rollouts of contactless by Barclays… Read More
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