Gemalto, Crédit Mutuel-CIC and NRJ Mobile have joined forces to offer contactless mobile payment services as part of the “Nice, mobile contactless city ” project. Following the successful launch of the first contactless mobile payment pilot in November 2006, with its mobile virtual network operator NRJ Mobile, Crédit Mutuel-CIC is today positioned as a major… Read More
Contactless Payments Zap Forward
Accelerating the adoption of NFC in the real world has become a mission for some of the industry’s leading thinkers. John T Nagle, CEO, ZAPA Technology, tells C-IQ about his company’s work in this area and you can watch a shortened version of the interview on C-ITV this week C-IQ: ZAPA has been live for… Read More
CISC 2010. Gone, but too good to be forgotten, just yet.
Posted by Karen Brindley, Managing Director, Krowne Communications (UK) Ltd. X This will read like a school field trip report, but after all those months of preparation, the CI Spring Conference (29th April) is finally over – and what a great day it was. A whopping 20% increase of registrations from last year and despite… Read More
MoreMagic Solutions on this weeks C-ITV
Back in February at the Mobile World Congress, I got the chance to speak to Pankaj Gulati, the President and CEO of MoreMagic Solutions about their goal to help bridge the gap between the developed and developing nations in terms of mobile financial solutions. Panjaj explained how quickly developing markets are embracing mobile payment technologies… Read More
Krowne gets down to monkey business – contactless awards won in London
The awards, sponsored by Visa Europe, have grown to become a highlight of the contactless industry’s calendar, and are attracting an even greater number of entrants each year. “2009 was a pretty tough year for many businesses, so it was encouraging to see so many developments in the contactless arena over the past 12 months,”… Read More
Augmented reality with Barclays Layar – where’s the nearest contactless retailer?
I am not usually a fan of these augmented reality apps within Layar – I find them to be a little ‘clunky’ and haphazard in their workings – but I have to admit (yes, even me!) that the Barclays Layar does seem to be a neat little app that could have a real uses in… Read More
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