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Visa announces sponsorship of London Media Centre

Visa Europe has been announced as the first sponsor of the London Media Centre, which will provide extensive facilities and news generation services to around 10,000 non-accredited media who are ...

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XING and Samsung Launch Next Generation of Mobile Networking

The latest version of the XING Android app was released this week and (claims networking company, XING), makes it even easier than ever for business professionals to network with one ...

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Popcorn delivered QkR™ direct to your cinema seat

Australia will be the first country to pilot QkR™ by MasterCard, a new queue-busting mobile payment application developed by MasterCard that lets movie goers at selected La Premiere Hoyts cinemas ...

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First iPhone Mobile Payments App introduced in Canada

Payfirma  Corp was named Canada’s best new start-up of 2011 at KPMG’s ...
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ZapTag looks to make shopping intelligent

A New Brunswick start-up called ZapTag are looking to bring NFC, via ...
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mPowa enters ‘smartphone as payment card reader’ in the UK

MPowa is the latest company to get into the smartphone as payment ...
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moneto – Worlds first multi-platform mobile wallet for iPhone AND Android

moneto, developed by DeviceFidelity, Inc. and Spring Card Systems LLC, have announced ...
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Expect more Mobile POS in 2012 – here’s iZettle

We covered swedish-based iZettle last year but they kind of got a ...
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Samsung Electronics embraces Open Source Platforms for NFC apps

Late last year we spoke to, and filmed, Samsung Electronics at CARTES ...

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Ignore the hotel check-in – go straight to your room

The Best of Mobile Technologies Are Now Combined to Offer Hoteliers the Most Advanced Front Desk Bypass Solution That Is 100% Deployable Today, 100% Future Proof, 100% Compatible With the Major Electronic Locks and 0% Dependent on Mobile Phone Operators/Carriers In cooperation with Nordic Choice Hotels, NOKIA and NXP, OpenWays is introducing in Stockholm, Sweden: [...]

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Read NFC tags with custom Android version of codeREADr

Skycore LLC, a mobile solutions provider, earlier this month, launched a beta program for customizing its codeREADr barcode scanning app so businesses can add reading and writing data to NFC tags.  When installed on NFC-enabled Android smartphones, the customized codeREADr app can read, record, track and validate data embedded in NFC tags. This functionality mirrors [...]

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Turkcell and RIM Launch NFC Mobile Wallet for BlackBerry Bold 9900 Customers in Turkey

Turkcell and Research In Motion have announced the commercial availability of an NFC mobile wallet application, the Turkcell Cep-T Cüzdan, for BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 smartphone customers in Turkey. The power of the BlackBerry Bold 9900 combined with the Turkcell Cep-T Cüzdan application enables Turkcell customers to enjoy making payments in a simple, easy, safe and [...]

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UPM NFC tags allow download of World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 mobile app

Global digital service design company Fjord and World Design Capital (WDC) Helsinki 2012 organization have launched a mobile application for WDC Helsinki 2012. The app ‘WDC 2012′, released on January 4, is a ‘digital programme book’ which delivers the programme and actively follows WDC Helsinki 2012 news and event updates. Smartphone users can easily download [...]

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BART tops one million contactless smart cards

The Bay Area-based Metropolitan Transit Commission has surpassed one million active Clipper® cards in circulation just 18 months after rebranding the card from TransLink to Clipper, making the contactless smart card fare collection system one of the fastest growing in the U.S. transit industry.  In making the announcement, the agency credited the increasing number of [...]

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Revolutionary ‘printed silicon’ tags enable item-level interaction between brands and customers

INSIDE Secure, has reported that its family of NFC solutions can now be used to interact with the  wireless tag, an NFC tag solution based on Kovio’s printed silicon technology platform. Mobile devices powered by INSIDE’s MicroRead® and SecuRead® NFC hardware and Open NFC™ protocol stack can now make it possible for brands, retailers, advertisers, [...]

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Siemens CMT expands walletXpress with bonusXpress

by Dr. Francesco Prato, Sales Director, Siemens CMT Siemens CMT has introduced its new mobile payment solution walletXpress and bonusXpress, a versatile loyalty solution. While both products are effective on their own together they are a winning combination that stimulates customer adoption to the new payment service and boosts loyalty by providing a smooth shopping [...]

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Infineon: global leader in security chips for NFC technology

 Infineon Technologies  is the world’s leading supplier of security microcontrollers for NFC (Near Field Communication) applications. The current IMS Research study* (January 2012) shows that Infineon holds a 51.5 percent share in the NFC security microcontroller market.  NFC contactless communication technology transforms smart phones and other mobile devices into wallets, tickets and keys. As a [...]

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