What could be a better sector just waiting for Contactless / NFC technology than the loyalty industry? With so many loyalty cards out there today – all waiting to be integrated into a mobile phone – surely this industry sector is the one embracing new technology the most? The 2012 finalists are: Kadona – NFC [...]

iZettle and Telia, Sweden’s market leading telecom operator, has signed a cooperation agreement meaning iZettle’s mini chip-card reader that turns an iPhone or iPad into a mobile credit card payment terminal will be available in Telia shops across Sweden starting March 23rd. “We are looking forward to providing the iZettle solution to our business customers, [...]

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 [...]

Heartland Payment Systems, the fifth largest payments processor in the United States have announced that its Mobuyle mobile payment acceptance solution is now available on Apple iOS mobile devices, enabling merchants to take credit, debit and gift card payments on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch As one of the first secure, mobile payment applications fully [...]

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 [...]

BOKU, Inc.,an on-line mobile payments company, have expanded their payments technology to cover full e-commerce and retail point-of-sale with the announcement of BOKU Accounts.  The solution builds upon BOKU’s extensive experience of working directly with Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and offers a new, smarter payment experience for MNOs, their subscribers and merchants.  The BOKU Accounts [...]

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 [...]

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 response to the rising popularity of iPhones, including the latest 4S model, which has a dominant presence in the Czech Republic. It will be possible [...]