Fans of Robbie Williams in London, Glasgow and Manchester will now have a chance to meet their favourite singer thanks to a combination of twitter and NFC technology. Samsung has ...
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The Endless Shelf – The future for digital displays and mobile payments?
Interactive digital displays could be the future of retail. Referred to as ...
Tap and Go with Tami from Barclaycard
This little video featuring Tami Hargreaves from Barclaycard (the lady that picked up ...
Infineon; We know how important Secure NFC is for commerce
Infineon’s Björn Scharfen speaks at the Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference 2013 about ...
Networks, updates and awards galore at the 2013 CISC and CMA event!
What do you get when you combine the Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference ...
NearSpeak – a voice recognition NFC-enabled app
Andreas Jakl, founder of Mopius and one of the developers of NearSpeak, ...
Latest News
Visa Europe claims growth of 46% in contactless payments in last three months alone!
Visa Europe today have issued a plethora of numbers today aimed at demonstrating their view that contactless usage has “reached a critical point of adoption across Europe.” According to the numbers, monthly transaction numbers across Europe reached more than 19 million in March 2013 and the company say that over €1billion has now been spent […]
GURU POST: The different methods in securing NFC applications
By Jürgen Spaenkuch, Vice President and General Manager Platform Security of the Chip Card & Security Division at Infineon Technologies (This is the fifth part of a series of posts called “The promise of NFC and the importance of Trust.”) Infineon, which has been active as an innovation leader in the secure chip card IC (integrated circuit) […]
OSPT and ITSO to travel together.
The Open Standard for Public Transport™ (OSPT) Alliance and ITSO Ltd., the organization responsible for the UK national specification for smart ticketing, say they are to participate as complimenting members in each other’s organizations and explore ways they can work together to promote the use of open security standards in public transit for smart ticketing […]
The silent tourist advisor that runs on NFC tech
Frank Viljoen, an independant EMEA NFC Business developer/consultant together with ZipNFC has developed a mutli functional table talker (static menu of pictures or literature for a consumer to engage with during dwell times in restaurants, pubs, coffee shops, train stations etc) along with what he believes is a first for NFC, a multi lingual tourist […]
Netto pioneers mobile phone payments in German supermarkets
By Veronica Atkins Germany has tried and failed to introduce mobile payments on many fronts – especially in the retail field. While it is the birthplace if discounter giants like Aldi and Lidl, innovation and customer experience have not exactly been on top of of the To Do list of German supermarkets. Last week, however, […]
Guest Post: VeriFone – Mobile revolution hits retailers
by VeriFone Recent research carried out by Forrester Consulting, concluded that mobile access to product information, store locations, location-based offers, voucher codes, comparison sites, barcode scanners, product reviews and purchase tracking is making the traditional, linear in-store approach to purchasing something of the past. No question that retailers need a mobile strategy and they need […]
Guest Post: Visa Contactless Cards
by VISA Europe Today there are more than 53 million Visa contactless cards in Europe. They can be used to make payments in 670k locations across 17 countries. UK contactless transactions quadrupled in 2012 – growing from 1m per month in July to almost 4m per month at the end of the year (36m across […]
Guest Post: Mobile ticketing solutions on the rise
by NXP Many analysts and industry experts consider mobile ticketing to be one of the most significant applications for NFC. You know what it’s like – you arrive at the airport, already late, and the first thing you see is a huge queue at the ticket counter! Just imagine how convenient and easy it would […]
Guest Post: Grasp the Mobile Opportunity
by Giesecke & Devrient The ever increasing prevalence of smartphones means consumers are now able to access many value added services via the mobile channel. These include mobile payments, account servicing, ticketing and loyalty and couponing. The mobile wallet plays a key role in the NFC ecosystem as both an enabler of these services and […]
Infineon launches Next Gen. embedded secure element, supports multiple NFC apps on same device
Infineon Technologies has its latest generation embedded Secure Element for NFC applications on the occasion of the Contactless Intelligence Conference in London. The SLE97400SE embedded Secure Element is a turn-key solution consisting of an Integrity Guard-based security chip and the latest GlobalPlatform compliant operating software for management of multiple applications. Increased memory space of more […]
