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Isis Gets Broad Handset Support for NFC Payments
Isis, a venture of AT&T, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon Wireless, announced that six of the world’s largest handset manufacturers will...
Contactless Smart Card Shipments to Reach 3.5 Billion in 2016
Contactless smart card shipments are forecast to increase from around 950 million in 2010 to 3.5 billion in 2016....
Visa and French bank plan NFC test
Visa and French bank Groupe BPCE are planning trials of microSD-based NFC chips. The trials will involve iPhone cases equipped...
Google in new mobile commerce gold rush
Google says it’s ready to party like it’s 1999 all over again, with mobile payments taking the place of e-commerce...
Visa contactless barometer
As Britain’s payment landscape continues to evolve, Visa Europe has released its first Contactless Barometer* to benchmark consumer take-up of new...
Is NFC Too Slow?
Mobile phones embedded with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology may be too slow to pass muster at the retail point...
Isis’ first flight proves to be failure
Isis, the Egyptian goddess of “slaves, sinners and the downtrodden” was often portrayed with wings of flight. Not so for...
New York transport authority makes contactless push
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is stepping up plans to introduce an open standards-based contactless payments system for the...