Nokia have announced an NFC version of the recently-launched Nokia Lumia 610, the most affordable Windows smartphone in the Lumia range. Orange will be the first operator to range the Lumia 610 NFC, which can pair with NFC accessories and read NFC tags. The Lumia 610 NFC also has the hardware and software enablers for [...]

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 [...]

Ingenico a worldwide provider of payment solutions, has worked together with Banco Santander and Orange on the development in Spain of the first payment system with multi-brand NFC mobile, which will enable users in the city of Group Santander, near Madrid, to make purchases of any amount simply by putting their mobile telephone close up [...]

Orange has unveiled ‘Quick Tap Treats’ – the UK’s first mobile contactless retail reward scheme, in partnership with the EAT. restaurant chain. Quick Tap Treats will allow all Orange customers with NFC enabled handsets to simply tap their mobile phone on specially designed posters at any of the 110 EAT. outlets so they can receive [...]

This is a very brief snippet of what we have coming out at the end of the month. It’s a short trailer from our Poland Embraces Contactless short film that we shot earlier this month. Let us know what you think. And yes, it really was that cold…

The M-Stadium project led by Orange, through its Orange Labs research and development facility in Caen, is rising to the challenge of deploying mobile contactless technology to cover spectators’ entire “journey” in stadiums, from buying seats and using e-tickets to reading interactive tags in and around stadiums. On Wednesday September 21, for the French Ligue [...]