We’ve just learnt that music fans will be able to reward a London busker by credit card, rather than throwing cash into a hat in a drive to promote “contactless” technology and raise money for charity. Peter Buffery, a student at Kingston University, south-west London, will use a specially-designed guitar for passers-by on London’s South… Read More
Agenda announced for 5th Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference and Contactless Monkey Awards (CMAs) 2011
The powers that be have released the agenda for the Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference 2011 and we have great pleasure to be putting this out on the weblog and twitter feed first. Having cast my eye over the topics I think that next years event is shaping up to be the best ever held. But… Read More
GSMA Announces Candidate Cities Bidding to Host Mobile World Congress 2013
The GSMA today announced that six cities are competing to host the GSMA Mobile World Congress event starting in 2013. Amsterdam, Barcelona, Cologne, Milan, Munich and Paris have been named candidate cities who are vying to become the home of Mobile World Congress for the five-year period from 2013 through 2017. The GSMA expects to… Read More
Multicard received first order for delivery of e-payment labels to Rabobank employees for contactless electronic payment
Multicard, a business unit of Identive Group, Inc., have announced that it has been selected by Rabobank to provide personalization and fulfillment services for the Dutch bank’s latest application of its MiniTix cashless e-payment solution. ulticard will manage product delivery, encoding and customer support for a program that allows Rabobank’s employees to make cashless payments… Read More
2010 turns out to be an award winning year for Oberthur Technologies
Oberthur Technologies, one of the world’s largest providers of smart cards technology and related services, has received several prestigious awards for its innovation in the first part of 2010. In June, Oberthur received two International Innovation Awards from ACT Canada, a non-profit association that focuses on smart card technology in Canada. The International Innovation Awards… Read More
TORO to provide KASIKORNBANK with their mobile platform ” akami™ ” for the largest pre-launch GSM Mobile payWave project.
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
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