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INSIDE Contactless and CONNECTHINGS, a pioneer in providing systems that deliver contextualized services and content based on location and time, have announced a partnership to give NFC the intelligence it needs to go beyond payment and transit applications to enable a broad range of mobile services. To accomplish this, the two companies will jointly develop, [...]

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Dion Lisle, executive VP, Citi Growth Ventures based in Singapore, provided some interesting insights into what will make NFC a commercial reality and Citi’s pilot in Bangalore. He was speaking at the EFMA conference in Paris. For starters, Lisle argues there are too many different brands and logos for NFC. He cited Bluetooth as being [...]

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The Australian state of Queensland has launched an investigation into a security breach affecting its contactless "go card" public transport system which saw the credit of one person incorrectly transferred to another’s account. The state government says the funds were transferred from one account to another person of the same name when a call centre [...]

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Japanese wireless operator NTT DoCoMo says it now has 10 million regular users of its DCMX contactless credit card phones. Launched in April 2006 under the Osaifu-Keitai mobile wallet brand, DCMX reached 1 million subscribers just seven months after launch. The 10 million milestone was passed on Monday 24 August – writes Finextra. The wireless [...]

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ViVOtech has announced the general availability of its flagship NFC infrastructure software, ViVOnfc Suite 2.8, on the Solaris 10 Operating System and Sun Microsystems hardware for large-scale commercial deployments.  The solution is designed to help NFC service providers move from pilots and trials to commercial launches targeting millions of users.  ViVOtech has been working with [...]

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