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GSM Trade Body Wants All New Phones to Have NFC by Mid-2009

The GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry, has called for full NFC functionality -- including the standardised 'Single Wire Protocol' interface -- to be built into all new mobile phones from mid-2009.

Mobile phones will cut off Al Qaeda says DHS

US puts faith in mobe-issued boarding passes Michael Chertoff, the US Secretary of Homeland Security, reckons that putting boarding passes onto mobile phones will stop terrorists boarding plans with forged documents, making the...

Future-proofed pre-paid solution from Ingenico and Card Commerce increases loyalty and revenues f...

End-to-end flexible solution means value-added services can be ‘switched on' quickly Dublin, Ireland, 17th November 2008: Ingenico and Card Commerce have today announced a partnership that will stimulate adoption of pre-paid...

Sirit Announces European Certification for IDentity 5100 RFID Reader

TORONTO, ON, Canada; ITS World Congress, NEW YORK, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- continue" (or the negative thereof) and words and expressions of similar import, and may include statements concerning possible or assumed...

Promotional Coupons Sent via Mobile Phones to Exceed 200m Users by 2013

­Coupons delivered and redeemed via mobile phones are forecast to be used by some 200 million mobile subscribers globally by 2013, according to a new study by Juniper Research. The Juniper Research report determined that the...

Etisalat presents mobile commerce innovations at Mobile Money Transfer Conference

Source: BI-ME , Author: BI-ME staff UAE. Etisalat presented its latest innovations supporting mobile commerce at the Mobile Money Transfer Conference in Dubai (MMT08) yesterday. Rashed Alabbar, Senior Manager, Product...

Sirit Reports Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results (PR Newswire)

Sirit Inc. , a leading provider of radio frequency identification technology, reports its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008. All amounts are stated in Canadian Dollars unless otherwise noted.

New Credit Cards Show Their Smarts

Today's smaller, slimmer mobile phones look like credit cards -- and in a curious twist, future credit cards could look like mobile phones, with their own displays and keypads. A new credit card demonstrated by Visa adds a...

Fundamentals of Smart Cards for Payments the Focus of Second Webinar in Smart Card Alliance and...

PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ--(Marketwire - November 6, 2008) - New ways to pay with smart card-based chip cards, contactless cards and mobile phones are a hit with consumers and continuing to gain interest in the United States and...

VeriFone Announces Contactless Version of Best-Selling PINPad 1000SE (PR Newswire)

CARTES & IDentification 2008, Hall 3 Stand H018) -- VeriFone Holdings, Inc. , today introduced a contactless version of its popular PINpad 1000SE, further expanding the industry's broadest line of contactless payment solutions.

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