This past year has seen Contactless and NFC technology move beyond just facilitating contactless payments. A number of companies have embraced contactless and NFC technology, be it with location marketing, museum guides, and even on-line note taking. At the Contactless and Mobile awards, we are looking for the Innovation of the Year that uses contactless [...]

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 [...]

Datacard Group announced an equity investment and strategic partnership with DeviceFidelity, Inc. – a company that develops Near Field Communications (NFC) based plug-and-play technologies, services and payment applications for mobile devices worldwide. This partnership enables Datacard Group to offer DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay® suite of solutions which use microSD technology to transform smartphones into interactive contactless mobile [...]

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 [...]