Payfirma, the leader of mobile point of sale apps for businesses in Canada, is proud to announce the release of its Android Mobile Payment App. Already available on the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Blackberry, anyone with a Payfirma merchant account can now accept all major credit cards and VISA Debit on their Android mobile [...]

NXP Semiconductors N.V. have revealed that several NFC service providers and application providers will showcase their NFC services which utilize NXP’s mobile NFC technology, NFC tags, and contactless readers at the NFC Café, a concept café within NXP’s Mobile World Congress booth. Providing NFC apps is equally important as the deployment of handsets and reader [...]

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 became the world’s first mobile Near Field Communication (NFC) wallet supporting both the iPhone and Android platforms for mobile payments using the In2Pay™ microSD by [...]

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 another. XING, the leading business network in German-speaking countries, now provides its members with the option to add contacts using near field communication (NFC). This [...]

MPowa is the latest company to get into the smartphone as payment card reader market – although they claim that they are the first to do so in the UK. the company’s web site tells visitors that they can  take credit cards and debit cards with their iPhone, iPad, or Android device. they claim that [...]

moneto, developed by DeviceFidelity, Inc. and Spring Card Systems LLC, have announced at CES the launch of the world’s first commercially available mobile payment solution that provides iPhone and Android users a convenient way to pay while on the go. The moneto iPhone wallet is powered by MasterCard PayPass technology and linked to a general [...]

NXP Semiconductors N.V. have announced that the recently launched Galaxy Nexus™ from Google™ incorporates NXP’s fully integrated near field communication (NFC) solution PN65N. Featuring a NFC radio controller and an embedded Secure Element, the PN65N is also fully validated and integrated on the latest release of Android™ 4.0, also refered to as Ice Cream Sandwich. [...]

North American Bancard (NAB) is further enhancing the services of Pay Anywhere, its “nocompromise” mobile payment system, with the latest version of the Pay Anywhere app for Apple iOSand Google Android. Starting today, users can download Version 1.4.1 and 1.4 on Apple and Android respectively to immediately take advantage of the new features, which include Cash Transactions, Discounts, Store [...]