Contactless NFC

Starting in H1 2014 Brazilians will be able to use their smartphones to carry out contactless payment transactions when shopping. In the first commercial project of its kind in Latin America, Giesecke & Devrient...

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ABN AMRO, ING, KPN, Rabobank, T-Mobile and Vodafone signed a letter of intent to jointly introduce mobile payments at the checkout in the Netherlands. It is the first time that major banks and mobile...

IBM scientists have developed a new mobile authentication security technology based on near-field communication (NFC). The technology provides an extra layer of security when using an NFC-enabled device and a contactless smartcard to conduct...

Japanese card brand JCB announced it is working with Dai Nippon Printing on a 1 month mobile wallet trial. The product is supposed to launch sometime in 2013. JCB said its mobile wallet will handle...

Buoyed by continued growth, South Korea's mobile contactless payments market will enjoy average compound annual growth rates in the realm of 50% - according to Celent. In a new report, Celent offers an analysis of...

HID Global has announced the addition of a mobile sticker format to its family of contactless payment and identification cards. The stickers make it easier to add closed-loop payment and loyalty systems to existing automatic...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the latest upgrade to the firm's Android mobile phone operating system will include NFC technology, enabling users to make contactless payments with their handsets. At the Web 2.0 Summit in...

Dynamic Card Solutions (DCS) has expanded the capabilities of its mobile payments personalization platform - CardWizard Perso-to-Go - to support personalization of NFC Micro SD cards. DCS' Perso-to-Go platform is a fully integrated solution that...

On March 26th, 2015 Dusseldorf courts (Landgericht) held, after a trial on the merits, that certain HTC smartphone products infringe patents EP 1 855 229 and EP 1 163 718 exclusively licensed to France...