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 [...]

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 [...]

Claire Maslen from O2 took time out from the launch of O2′s mobile wallet to speak to C-ITV about what this will mean for payments in the future.

Kadona CEO Markus Lobmaier talked to C-ITV at the Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference about their findings on NFC voucher redemption rates.

SIMalliance Board Director, Paul Naldrett speaks to C-ITV at the Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference about the role of the SIMalliance within the smart payment sector, the organisations position on NFC/Mobile Payments and what the SIMalliance is doing to help advance the market for mobile payments.