The global appetite for contactless technologies shows no sign of abating as the 2012 Contactless Intelligence Contactless & Mobile Awards honour achievements across a wide range of sectors and countries throughout Europe and further a field. Now in its fifth year, the Contactless & Mobile Awards (this year sponsored by Visa Europe and Telefonica O2) [...]

MasterCard has continued to outlined its vision on how to reach the next billion consumers through mobile innovation and partnerships  at a press conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona led by its global head of mobile Mung Ki Woo,  MasterCard and leading mobile partners Comviva, Intel, iZettle, Santander and Turkcell unveiled a vision [...]

The leading European supplier of customer interaction solutions, The Logic Group, and ViVOtech, the near field communication (NFC) software and systems company, today announced a strategic partnership to introduce integrated solutions that enable effective mobile consumer interactions from the moment they enter a store to the point of purchase and post purchase, through NFC-enabled devices. [...]

Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2012, Ericsson unveils its new extended suite of m-commerce solutions and services, designed to accelerate access and interconnection between the emerging m-commerce eco-system and the financial world to fast track the next generation of mobile financial services. Ericsson is launching two new services within its m-commerce portfolio – Ericsson Converged [...]

Five companies at the forefront of new developments in Mobile Commerce have been given Juniper Research Future Mobile Awards for Mobile Commerce.   Juniper Research has awarded Fiserv, Gemalto, i-movo, Nokia and Sybase 365 with the awards which are given to companies that have made a significant contribution to their sector and are poised to [...]

CoVantage Credit Union (CVCU), serving 17 counties in Wisconsin and Michigan, announced the availability of Tyfone mobile wallet services to its members. CVCU teamed with Tyfone to bring mobile wallet services which include Symitar Episys core integrated mobile banking, enhanced strong ID authentication mobile security and a path to NFC contactless payment technology to its [...]

CorFire, the mobile commerce business of SK C&C USA and the leading provider of mobile technology solutions, and SNAP (Social Network Appreciation Platform), a platform linking transactions at the merchant’s POS with automated social network interactions, today announced plans to integrate the SNAP platform into CorFire’s mobile wallet solution, CorPay™, and its suite of mobile [...]

Ingenico, a worldwide provider of payment solutions, and iMobile3, LLC, a leader in advanced mobile commerce technologies, have announced a strategic partnership which will power the launch of Ingenico’s new Mobile Retail Platform – iMRP – in the United States. With the introduction of its new open mobile platform, Ingenico continues to innovatively provide merchants [...]