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
London, here we come – with Contactless Intelligence!
After all the months of planning, I can’t believe that it’s the week of our CI Spring Conference. We’ve had a tremendous response to the event and are really excited about the mix of implementors attending from local authorities, retailers and transport operators. This year we wanted to focus on the driving forces for contactless… Read More
Meet the Monkey Awards Nominees – Trailblazing & Innovation
This is it – the last award category; Trailblazing and Innovation. This award is granted to those companies who the judges feel have done their best to look at this wonderful (and whacky!) world of contactless technology and give it a boost. Perhaps. Or a spin. Must be a new one though. Either way, we… Read More
INSIDE Contactless offers free, downloadable open NFC API and source code on SourceForge
As a result of the success of its Open NFC commercial-grade NFC protocol stack, INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, today announced it is making the Open NFC protocol stack more widely available, placing the full source code and full API documentation on SourceForge.net for free download. The source code… Read More
Meet the Monkey Awards Nominees – Transportation
We’re almost at the end of our categories now. Just a couple more to go, and the 29th will be upon us and we’ll be finding out who the lucky winners will be. Until then – it’s category 8 – Transportation. Buses, public transport, mobile ticketing – we have it all here. We’re bouncing around… Read More
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