GENTAG, Inc. and its partners have announced the commercial availability of a low-cost near field communication (NFC) cell phone for RFID sensor applications, including consumer diagnostics. The technology integrates NXP’s PN544 NFC IC technology with the full open ISO NFC spectrum and was co-developed in Asia in collaboration with NXP and other partners. It is… Read More
VeriFone Integrates Card Payment & Media for UK Taxis
Taxi card payment and digital media solutions are now available in the UK thanks to VeriFone who are offering the system free to London’s licensed black cabs in order to modernize the taxi payments infrastructure and improve passenger journeys. The VeriFone system has been approved for TX model taxis by Transport for London’s Taxi and… Read More
Crédit Agricole Selects Gemalto for its Mobile Contactless Payment Program in Nice
Crédit Agricole has selected Gemalto to support the bank in deploying Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile payment solutions in Nice. As part of the “Nice, Ville NFC” initiative, Crédit Agricole Provence Côte d’Azur offers its customers a contactless payment solution, using an NFC-approved mobile phone. Since January 2011, customers of Crédit Agricole Provence Côte d’Azur… Read More
TSYS and CASSIS International Enter Into Mobile NFC Partnership
TSYS have announced that they have entered into a partnership with CASSIS International to provide secure mobile payment, loyalty and commerce functionality. CASSIS is a mobile trusted service manager (TSM) for banks, retailers, transit operators and mobile service providers, and is globally certified by Visa and MasterCard. “Consumers will soon be using their phones as… Read More
Delivery of Commercial UIM cards to KDDI heralds Toshiba’s entry into the NFC market
Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will start delivery of commercial User Identity Module (UIM) cards supporting Near Field Communication to KDDI Corporation, a leading Japanese mobile network operator, in February. Toshiba’s newly developed UIM card equipped with CDMA2000 and Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), supports NFC, which is expected to go into commercial… Read More
‘True’ NFC hardware independence brought to Google Android “Gingerbread”, claims INSIDE Secure
INSIDE Secure, a provider of semiconductor solutions for secure transactions and digital identity, has announced the availability of a new version of its award-winning, open-source Open NFC™ protocol stack geared to the latest version of Google Android™ (aka Gingerbread). This makes Open NFC the first truly hardware-independent, open-source NFC protocol stack for this popular smartphone operating… Read More
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