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Visa V.me Launch Confirmed

Visa has announced the launch of V.me, a multifaceted digital wallet that can be used to store Visa and non-Visa accounts. It will be possible to access V.me from computers, tablets and smartphones with NFC support to [...]

Barclaycard Stick-On NFC PayTag

Barclaycard UK have introduced PayTag, a small contactless NFC payment card that can be stuck on to the back of a mobile phone to make payments of up to £15.00. The move by Barclaycard hopes to [...]

NFC Joint Venture Under Investigation

The planned joint venture planned by the UK’s mobile operators Vodafone, Telefónica and Everything Everywhere have been put on hold after the European regulator opened an investigation citing “potential competition concerns”. The EU commission now has 90 [...]

Keys Replaced By NFC Mobiles

The standard key is being replaced by the mobile phone at the US Villanova University. Now students who are equipped with a NFC mobile phone can gain entrance to dormitories and academic buildings securely with a tap of their mobile. The NFC mobile [...]

Fujifilm NFC Enabled Printing Kiosks

SmartPix Kisoks will now support NFC and will allow users to easily connect and transfer pictures to the kiosk for printing. The system works via a module installed by retailers and after establishing a connection from [...]

Google Wallet Compatibility For Apple iOS

Intrepidus Group, who are a leading provider of mobile application and device security services, have found hidden in Google Wallet’s source code hints that it has already been made compatible with Apple’s iPhone iOS. The compatibility [...]

Inside Secure Release NFC Tags With Memory

In the first of its kind, Inside Secure have released a type 4 NFC tag with internal memory which fully conforms to NFC Forum standards and is therefore readable by any NFC device. The NFC tag [...]

JCDecaux’s NFC Roll-out In Reading, UK

JCDecaux have rolled out NFC advertising in the English town of Reading as part of a project called ‘Test the Near Future’. In all there will be over 325 NFC touch points enabling users to connect [...]

Vodafone & Visa Partner NFC Payments

Vodafone and Visa have announced a partnership that will be made available to Vodafone’s 400m customer base spread across 30 different countries and will run on Visa’s NFC payment system payWave. The service will initially be [...]

Shazam Enables NFC Media Sharing

Shazam, a media discovery app used by 180 million people, has announced that in a major update to its Andriod app will be added NFC functionality. This will allow Shazam users with a NFC enabled mobile [...]

Visa Provisioning Payment Accounts ‘Over The Air’

Visa have agreed a deal with Oberthur Technologies which will allow account information for Visa’s payWave system to be downloaded to mobile phones securely “over the air” and will make it simple for mobile phone operators, financial institutions [...]

London 2012 Olympics Payment App

Visa and Samsung have announced that they will be releasing a payment app for the London 2012 Olympics that will allow users to make payments at over 3000 payment terminals spread across many of the Olympic [...]

World Expo 2012 NFC

This year the World Expo 2012 is in Korea and not surprisingly as already 5million Koreans have NFC enabled mobile phones, NFC technology promises to be featured quite heavily. Arriving at the expo you will need to park, [...]

Moneto NFC For 6 New Samsung Smartphones

Moneto have announced that six Samsung Galaxy S Andriod smartphones will be supported by the moneto wallet in addition to the iPhone 4, 4S & 3GS. The Moneto mobile wallet was announced earlier this year and [...]

O2 To Accelerate NFC

O2 have teamed up with digital communications agency Isobar for an event called ‘Isobar Create London’. The event is designed to accelerate NFC application development and technology via competition and is to be held at Shoreditch Studios in [...]

Google Releases Wallet Fix

Google have announced that they have released a fix for the Google Wallet and have also also re-enabled the provisioning of prepay cards. One would hope that they very carefully check every inch of code and [...]

Google Pulls Wallet Pre-Pay Cards

This weekend Google put the breaks on Google Wallet by preventing the provisioning of new pre-pay cards, which in turn stops any new customers from setting up Google Wallet. Google have also released a statement regarding [...]

Foursquare Gets NFC

Users of the popular location bases social networking site Foursquare now have NFC support added as a feature to its Andriod app. Andriod 4.0 users can now tap their phone against a tag at a venue [...]

Google Wallet Vunerability Found

A vulnerability has been discovered in Google Wallet which could allow for the users PIN number to be revealed via a brute force attack, but only if your phone is running a rooted version of Andriod. [...]

NFC ‘News Shorts’ Round up

Here is our round up of NFC news shorts including news on a Lexus NFC magazine advert, Mastercard’s NFC cinema seats and AT&T getting Google Wallet. Lexus will have an NFC tag in an advert shown [...]

Pouch – Cloud Based NFC Payment Service

Today the first cloud based NFC emulation service which fully confirms to MasterCard’s PayPass and Visa’s PayWave contactless payment standards has been announced by YESpay and YES-wallet. The new technology allows merchants via the Pouch cloud service to implement a contactless [...]

NFC For Windows Phone 8 & Windows 8

In the last week Nokia’s design chief Marko Ahtisaari hinted that versions of their WP 8 powered Lumia phones would incorporate NFC, as well as other interesting features such as a port-less design with wireless charging. Well now more information confirming the [...]