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Siemens CMT, Nokia Siemens Networks & the 2012 Mobile World Congress

by Dr. Francesco Prato, Sales Director, Siemens CMT Siemens Communications, Media and Technology (CMT) is presenting its new versatile mobile payment solution in cooperation with Nokia Siemens Networks’ (NSN) charging ...

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Additional Smartphones get moneto NFC wallet treatment

This week, Texas-based company moneto announced the first line of compatible Android smartphone devices with the moneto mobile wallet. The mobile wallet was launched earlier this year during CES and ...

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Komerční banka and Visa Europe launch mobile payments for iPhone

Komerční banka and Visa Europe will launch contactless mobile payments for iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S handsets in mid-2012, using the iCarte accessory from Wireless Dynamics. The service is being launched in ...

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Startup says your MNO should act more like your bank

BOKU, Inc.,an on-line mobile payments company, have expanded their payments technology to ...
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Poland Embraces Contactless (VIDEO TRAILER)

This is a very brief snippet of what we have coming out ...
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iZettle speaks about iZettle

We’ve spoken quite a bit about Swedish start-up  iZettle here on C-ITV. ...
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EPC Newsletter comments on dev. in SEPA

The free online EPC Newsletter, published quarterly by the European Payments Council, ...
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Deeplocal’s ‘LIKE’ belt – want one?

You may have seen this in some of the trade press recently. ...
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Contactless smart meters explained by EBV

Thanks to semiconductor distributor – EBV, you can learn a little more ...

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Payments Council project will enable mobile payments from any account

The ability to send mobile payments using just a mobile phone number should be open to everyone, according to the Payments Council’s latest mobile payments project update. The Payments Council is building a central database that will allow customers to link their mobile phone number to their account details, regardless of who they bank with. [...]

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NFC-Capable SIM Cards for Italy’s First Mobile Payment Pilot Project

Munich-based Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is supplying NFC-capable SIM cards to Nòverca, an MVNO, for Italy’s very first pilot project for mobile payments launched by Banca Intesa Sanpaolo. Six hundred employees and customers of Banca Intesa Sanpaolo can now use their mobile phones to make contactless payments in the northern Italian cities of Milan and [...]

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Mastercard Partnership Program for Mobile Money Services

Mastercard have announced a global initiative called the MasterCard Mobile Money Partnership Program to help more than 2.5 billion financially-underserved consumers worldwide gain access to formal financial services through their mobile phones. MasterCard is working with preferred platform partners Comviva, Sybase 365 and Utiba to enable consumers to purchase goods and services via their mobile [...]

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Business service within Escher Group looks to NFC

Escher Group Holdings plc(Escher) today announced the formation of a new business (Escher InteractiveServices) within the group to focus on Near Field Communications (NFC) and the provision of managed services.   Escher was established in 1989 and has customers in 32 countries across the globe and is the largest supplier of transaction processing software to [...]

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Ericsson announces new m-commerce portfolio ahead of MWC 2012

Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2012, Ericsson unveils its new extended suite of m-commerce solutions and services, designed to accelerate access and interconnection between the emerging m-commerce eco-system and the financial world to fast track the next generation of mobile financial services. Ericsson is launching two new services within its m-commerce portfolio – Ericsson Converged [...]

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SMARTRAC Joins the OSPT Alliance as Full Member

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT™) Alliance today announced that SMARTRAC, a leading developer, manufacturer, and supplier of RFID transponders, has joined the OSPT Alliance. As a full member of the Alliance, SMARTRAC will participate in the Alliance’s activities around the development of next-generation transit fare collection systems based on the CIPURSE™ open security [...]

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Defining Control Points within the Mobile Wallet Ecosystem

Mobey Forum has released a white paper entitled: ‘Control Points in Mobile Wallets’,which analyses how the rollout of the mobile wallet will be dictated by the various stakeholders involved in its development and deployment. The paper identifies seven key areas, or ‘control points’, within the mobile wallet ecosystem that will influence the delivery of the [...]

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Infographic on how NFC can change our world.

Orange Business Services have just published a great little Infographic on their blog that describes how they believe that NFC technology will change the world in which we live. It’s well done and worth a look…   If you want to see the original post you can see it here

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