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Where is Google Wallet 2.0? And is Bedier Bound for MCX?

Published: Dec 20 2012
BERJAYA

Anticipation was peaking when Osama Bedier, Google’s vice president of wallet and payments, stepped to the stage for his keynote at the Money 2020 conference in Las Vegas Oct. 22.

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Features

More Consumer Electronics to Incorporate NFC for Connectivity This Year

Published: Jan 14 2013
By: 
Dan Balaban
BERJAYA

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – NFC technology this year is likely to make its way into a greater variety of consumer products, including televisions, DVD players, digital cameras, even an automatic vacuum cleaner, if demonstrations at last week’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas are any indication.

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New NXP Tag Line Targets Advertisers and Other Markets

Published: Nov 13 2012
By: 
Kiona Smith-Strickland
BERJAYA

With its recent launch of a second-generation of tag products, NXP Semiconductors hopes to tap into what it sees as increasing demand by advertisers for data analytics on prospective customers.

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Checking Labels: The Wine Authentication App that Also Promotes the Brand

Published: Nov 5 2012
By: 
Kiona Smith-Strickland
BERJAYA

NFC technology companies have promoted the idea of using NFC tags to foil counterfeiters of luxury goods for some time.

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NFC Industry Veteran Offers Targeted Ad Opportunity While Waging War on Waiting

Published: Aug 29 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban
BERJAYA

U.S.-based Narian Technologies has expanded its NFC app designed to reduce wait times for consumers in stores, restaurants and other retail establishments to also support targeted advertising and offers.

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MicroSDs: After Two Years of Trials, Questions Remain About Marketability

Published: Aug 21 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban
BERJAYA

Bank of America has not yet tipped its hand about how it plans to roll out mobile payment in the U.S., but it is unlikely to use microSD cards–that is, if a recent evaluation of the technology by a bank representative is any guide.

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Orange to Roll Out NFC SIMs as it Tries to Seed French Market

Published: Jun 26 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban
BERJAYA

French mobile operators have announced they will more than double the number of NFC-enabled phones rolled out to subscribers by the end of 2012, to 2.5 million, the most of any country in Europe, they predict.

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NFC Marks Multiply as Doubts Persist over NFC Forum Touchpoint Icon

Published: Apr 25 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban
BERJAYA

Even as the NFC Forum attempts to broaden the reach of its NFC touchpoint symbol, known as the N-Mark, rival marks are surfacing, threatening to present consumers with a fragmented array of NFC icons as the technology rolls out.

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Printer of NFC Lexus Ad: Other Advertisers Interested, Though Waiting for Apple

Published: Apr 10 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban
BERJAYA

Despite the added costs, NFC is attracting interest among advertisers of print publications, according to the large printing house that produced a high-profile magazine ad for luxury car brand Lexus.

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Some Banks Continue to Look for Alternatives to SIM-based NFC

Published: Feb 13 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban
BERJAYA

While mobile operators continue to push for the SIM card to become the de facto secure element in NFC phones, some banks and other service providers are still seeking alternatives.

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Visa Gearing Up For NFC Launches in UK, Working with Banks and Telcos

Published: Feb 15 2013
Feb 15 2013 (All day)
BERJAYA

Visa is reportedly gearing up to support a “mainstream launch” of NFC mobile payments, along with a cloud-based digital wallet, according to Marc O’Brien, managing director of Visa UK and Ireland.

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Visa: Contactless Transactions in UK to Grow Fourfold This Year; Though Base Remains Small

Published: Feb 14 2013
BERJAYA

Visa Europe predicts the UK will have 34 million contactless Visa-branded cards on issue and 175,000 contactless terminals deployed by the end of 2013, with Europe reaching 70 million Visa-branded contactless cards and 650,000 contactless terminals this year.

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MasterCard Reports 700,000 Merchants Worldwide Accepting PayPass

Published: Feb 8 2013
BERJAYA

Merchant locations accepting PayPass cards and applications on mobile devices stood at nearly 700,000 globally at the end of 2012, MasterCard Worldwide announced this week.

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Secure MicroSD Venture Led by Giesecke & Devrient Liquidates

Published: Feb 2 2013
BERJAYA

Germany-based smart card company Giesecke & Devrient and Taiwan-based flash memory chip supplier Phison Electronics have dissolved their joint venture that had targeted the market for microSD cards to store mobile-payment applications.

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Czech Telco and Bank Launch NFC Payments Service with PayPass

Published: Jan 31 2013
BERJAYA

Telefónica Czech Republic has launched NFC payments with GE Money Bank and MasterCard Worldwide, making it the first Telefónica group operator to commercialize NFC.

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T-Mobile Poland: 5,500 Registered Users for NFC after Two Months

Published: Jan 29 2013
BERJAYA

T-Mobile Poland confirmed it had signed up 5,500 “users” for its NFC-enabled wallet as of early January, a little more than two months after launching the service.

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NFC Forum Introduces Special Interest Groups for Key Markets

Published: Jan 25 2013
BERJAYA

The NFC Forum has announced the formation of five special interest groups, which will promote NFC rollouts in payment, retail, transport, health care, and consumer electronics.

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Taiwanese Regulators Approve NFC Joint Venture, but with Conditions

Published: Jan 23 2013
Jan 29 2013 (All day)
BERJAYA

Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission has approved a joint venture among Taiwan’s five mobile operators and its major contactless payments service provider, EasyCard Corp., to build an NFC payments platform, but with conditions.

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Identive Announces Record Quarter for NFC Tag Shipments

Published: Jan 23 2013
BERJAYA

Tag supplier Identive Group shipped nearly 15 million NFC tags during the fourth quarter of 2012, which CEO Ayman Ashour described as a quarterly record for the company.

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Telefónica Germany to Introduce NFC Payments Next Month, But Begins with Test

Published: Jan 22 2013
BERJAYA

Telefónica (O2) Germany has announced it will launch its NFC-enabled O2 Wallet in mid-February, beginning as a “friendly user test” on two Android smartphones that will enable users to tap to make purchases with the telco’s own payments service, mpass.

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Disney Taps Contactless and NFC Technology as it Seeks to Connect Customers to Its Fantasy World

Published: Jan 18 2013
BERJAYA

The Walt Disney Co. is tapping contactless and NFC technology to offer a more interactive experience for its theme park and video gaming customers.

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RIM Pushes TSM Services to Telcos in Competition with SIM Suppliers

Published: Jan 17 2013
BERJAYA

Research In Motion continues to promote its own trusted service management service–the only handset maker to offer one–announcing Wednesday approval by Visa of the service to manage secure elements on NFC phones.

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Czech Republic

Czech Republic: Telefónica and GE Money Bank Launch NFC Payments...
Telefónica Czech Republic introduces its O2 Wallet with the launch of NFC services, which incl

Poland

Poland: Orange Operator First to Announce NFC Commercial Launch
Orange Poland is rolling out a prepaid card, called Orange Cash, which is to be issued by BRE
Poland: T-Mobile to Roll Out NFC With Multiple Banks
T-Mobile launch of NFC commercially in Poland before the end of October, 2012, made

Australia

Outdoor NFC Campaign Promotes Australian Launch of Zero Dark Thirty
The NFC-enabled outdoor campaign for the January 2013 release of the film Zero Dark Thirt

Salt Lake City, Utah; Portland, Ore.

U.S.: Bank Launches Beta Test of microSDs with iPhone
U.S. Bank, the No. 5 commercial bank in the U.S.

Shanghai

China: Unicom Announces Planned NFC Payments Launch with Merchants Bank
China Merchants Bank plans to issue a debit application and a separate e-purse for China Unicom SIM cards, ac

Sydney

Australia: Vodafone Announces Plans for NFC Service; But Still Trialing...
Trial is a prelude to a commercial launch, that might begin next year, according to Vodafone.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong: Hang Seng Bank and PCCW Plan NFC Commercial Launch
Credit card customers of Hang Seng Bank will be able to tap to pay with NFC-enabled phones from Samsu

Milan

Italy: Telecom Italia Launches Large NFC Trial; Likely a Prelude to...
The trial enables 1,000 users to make retail payments, pay for bus, tram, metro and train tickets, as well

Canada

Canada: Rogers and CIBC to Commercially Launch NFC Payment Service
Consumers will be able to tap to pay with the CIBC mobile credit cards at tens of thousands of

Rome

Italy: Bank Launches Mobile-Payment Trial with Two Telcos and PayPass
Employees and customers of Italy’s BNL, part of France-based BNP Paribas group, will

Taipei

Taiwan: Taiwan’s No. 1 Telco To Trial SIM-based NFC Wallet
Chunghwa Telecom’s NFC wallet trial will test two payment applications and a Chunghwa T

United Kingdom

UK: Major UK Bank Launches Large M-Payment Trial with iPhone Attachment
UK bank NatWest has enabled 1,000 customers to tap to pay with its TouchPay service using a Visa payWave applicati

Paris

France: Merchant to Launch Large Tag-based Mobile-Shopping Trial
The project will enable participating shoppers to load products into a digital shopping basket on their smartphones by tapping the phones...

Singapore

Singapore: Telco StarHub to Launch First of Government-Supervised NFC...
Mobile operator StarHub plans to launch its SmartWallet service in August 2012 with three pay
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More Consumer Electronics to Incorporate NFC for Connectivity This Year

Published: Jan 14 2013
By: 
Dan Balaban
BERJAYA

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – NFC technology this year is likely to make its way into a greater variety of consumer products, including televisions, DVD players, digital cameras, even an automatic vacuum cleaner, if demonstrations at last week’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas are any indication.

Read more »
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New NXP Tag Line Targets Advertisers and Other Markets

Published: Nov 13 2012
By: 
Kiona Smith-Strickland
BERJAYA

With its recent launch of a second-generation of tag products, NXP Semiconductors hopes to tap into what it sees as increasing demand by advertisers for data analytics on prospective customers.

Read more »
TAGS:

Checking Labels: The Wine Authentication App that Also Promotes the Brand

Published: Nov 5 2012
By: 
Kiona Smith-Strickland
BERJAYA

NFC technology companies have promoted the idea of using NFC tags to foil counterfeiters of luxury goods for some time.

Read more »
TAGS:

NFC Industry Veteran Offers Targeted Ad Opportunity While Waging War on Waiting

Published: Aug 29 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban
BERJAYA

U.S.-based Narian Technologies has expanded its NFC app designed to reduce wait times for consumers in stores, restaurants and other retail establishments to also support targeted advertising and offers.

Read more »
TAGS:

MicroSDs: After Two Years of Trials, Questions Remain About Marketability

Published: Aug 21 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban
BERJAYA

Bank of America has not yet tipped its hand about how it plans to roll out mobile payment in the U.S., but it is unlikely to use microSD cards–that is, if a recent evaluation of the technology by a bank representative is any guide.

Read more »
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Orange to Roll Out NFC SIMs as it Tries to Seed French Market

Published: Jun 26 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban
BERJAYA

French mobile operators have announced they will more than double the number of NFC-enabled phones rolled out to subscribers by the end of 2012, to 2.5 million, the most of any country in Europe, they predict.

Read more »
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NFC Marks Multiply as Doubts Persist over NFC Forum Touchpoint Icon

Published: Apr 25 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban
BERJAYA

Even as the NFC Forum attempts to broaden the reach of its NFC touchpoint symbol, known as the N-Mark, rival marks are surfacing, threatening to present consumers with a fragmented array of NFC icons as the technology rolls out.

Read more »
TAGS:

Printer of NFC Lexus Ad: Other Advertisers Interested, Though Waiting for Apple

Published: Apr 10 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban
BERJAYA

Despite the added costs, NFC is attracting interest among advertisers of print publications, according to the large printing house that produced a high-profile magazine ad for luxury car brand Lexus.

Read more »
TAGS:

Some Banks Continue to Look for Alternatives to SIM-based NFC

Published: Feb 13 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban
BERJAYA

While mobile operators continue to push for the SIM card to become the de facto secure element in NFC phones, some banks and other service providers are still seeking alternatives.

Read more »
TAGS:
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