During this years Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference in London, VP and General Manager of VeriFone Taxi and Media Solutions, Mark Roberts, invited the C-ITV cameras to take a short taxi ride with him so he could speak about and demonstrate the new VeriFone taxi payment solution. And very interesting it was too. And before anyone [...]

New technology is fuelling the public’s appetite for Out of Home advertising that also provides interactive experiences on the move, according to the results of a major study into NFC by Kinetic and JCDecaux. The study shows that there is a new opportunity for brands to retain customers and to deepen their engagement with potential [...]

VeriFone Systems, Inc., and PayPal have unveiled a comprehensive licensing, marketing and implementation agreement that advances PayPal acceptance at large retailers nationwide. With VeriFone’s customer base encompassing 80 percent of the top 200 largest retailers in the U.S., the agreement provides PayPal with unprecedented access to over one million high volume points of sale. Together, [...]

France’s Toulouse-Blagnac Airport is the world’s first airport to trial SIM-based Near Field Communication (NFC) to allow passengers to pass through the airport’s checks, controls and gates using only their mobile phones. Using the security of the SIM card, the airport will enable 50 selected passengers to trial this new service on BlackBerry smart phones [...]

Since 2009, the Living Labs Global Award has worked together with cities in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas to present major societal challenges affecting more than 125 million people. In response, more than 800 solution providers have in the past two editions responded with often ground-breakingtechnologies, ready to meet those challenges. Winners of the [...]

Vizibility Inc., provider of the online identity management platform for professionals and the enterprise, today announced the first-ever NFC Mobile Wallet Card as a standard feature for premium subscriptions. The NFC (Near Field Communication) beta program that was announced at the South By Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference in March is now closed. Learn more at http://nfc.vizibility.com. [...]

iMPak Health, LLC announced today the launch of their new product, RhythmTrak, a Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled cardiovascular mobile health and wellness application. RhythmTrak is being launched on the Android Platform for both smart phones and tablets and the company plans to have the application on the iOS platform by the end of the [...]

Isis™, the mobile commerce joint venture created by AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, today announced the first of its local merchant partners across Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah. In addition, Aéropostale, The Coca-Cola Company, Champs Sports, Dillard’s, Foot Locker, Jamba Juice and Macy’s are among the first national merchants to join [...]