Neil Garner, CEO of Proxama reasons why 2012 is the year that NFC makes its breakthrough This time last year, many people speculated that 2011 was going to be the year that near field  communications (NFC) would hit the big time and become recognised as the new ‘must have’ in consumers’ phones. The prospect of [...]

Head of Mobile Payment at Proxama – David Harbidge, talks to C-ITV on the ARM booth at Mobile World Congress 2012 about how Proxama and ARM have been working together to produce a demonstration of trusted execution environments. David also demonstrates how one NFC phone can be used as a merchant terminal to accept payment [...]

Barclaycard have launched Barclaycard PayTag. Millions of Barclaycard customers will be offered the chance to make payments with any mobile phone by simply sticking a Barclaycard PayTag to the back of their handset.  Available at no cost, and exclusively to Barclaycard Visa cardholders, Barclaycard PayTag is an extension of a customer’s credit card account. At a [...]

Asda, the UK’s second largest supermarket retailer, will this summer become the latest business in the UK to introduce contactless payments in partnership with Streamline and Visa Europe. The new contactless payment option will be available across 25 stores from July onwards. The contactless technology, provided by Streamline and Visa Europe, means that some Asda [...]

There’s a surge of interest in mobile payments in Brazil at the moment if this video is anything to go by. Developed by the Nokia Institute of Technology, the application works on Nokia’s C7, N9 and the 701. There are no connections to POS terminals at the moment, instead both the customer and the vendor [...]

USA-based Narian Technologies, a leading innovator in NFC applications and services, is launching a global public beta of their small business retail web portal and consumer mobile application – www.NFC4Retail.com. Within the site, users have the ability to create everything from new ways to manage employees, in-store interactive consumer services, smart poster marketing/analytics, and much [...]

The Polish nation’s enthusiasm for contactless and mobile payments was highlighted by research commissioned by First Data in October 2011, in which 51% of Poles surveyed said they would use a mobile device to make payments compared with just 25% of respondents in the UK/Ireland. Additionally, nearly a third of Polish consumers said they would [...]

KDDI of Japan have chosen Gemalto of France  for Japan’s first commercial launch of mobile NFC services. KDDI  serves over 34 million subscribers in Japan. Successfully launched in January, Gemalto provides a one-stop service to KDDI, encompassing its Allynis Trusted Service Manager (TSM) software and UpTeq NFC high-end security device. The launch is a part [...]