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whitepaper The TranSys consortium, led by EDS and Cubic, has selected among others, Philips' contactless chip technology for use in London's Oyster smartcard project, which began the first phase of roll-out by issuing Philips MIFARE-equipped cards to 80,000...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Contactless cards are a key technology for improving the consumer experience for retail transactions. The sensitivity of the contactless card is a more important metric than the computational speed, but the implementation of both translates into a...
[27 Mar 2008]
Photo The SMS is on the wall for crumpled notes and battered leather wallets as Accenture Technology Labs shows off the future of contactless payments using mobile phones. The custom built contactless payment terminal shown here demonstrates how NFC...
[31 Jan 2008]
News Gartner's forebodings for cash were made real with a number of commitments from credit card companies to introduce small-payments contactless chip cards. Apacs estimates five million contactless payment cards to be in circulation by the end of next...
[17 Dec 2007]
News Visa has already launched a contactless payment system known as payWave which is available in some areas of London and enables customers to wave a credit or debit card in front of a reader to pay for low value goods without needing to enter a PIN.
[28 Nov 2007]
News Last year, Singapore unveiled a standard contactless e-purse application (Cepas), which allows merchants to only have one system to deal with multiple cards. Any person requiring money could then draw electronic funds onto devices including mobile...
[27 Nov 2007]
News The same technology has recently been incorporated into some new banking cards so that they can be used in shops for contactless payment of small amounts. Visa even has a payWave credit card that features the capability to make small, contactless...
[26 Nov 2007]
News This is an essential milestone in the use of mobile phones as payment devices, as it paves the way for making mobile phone contactless payments device-independent. The trial was launched on the same day a European Telecommunications Standards...
[22 Oct 2007]
News Another futuristic technology taking off is contactless payments, which received a boost this month with Mastercard and Maestro launching 'tap and go' payment cards in London. Futuristic technologies and data security really grabbed the attention...
[28 Sep 2007]
News The MasterCard PayPass and Maestro PayPass contactless cards allow consumers to buy items costing less than £10 by simply waving their debit or credit card in front of a reader. In a similar vein to London Underground's Oyster Card, contactless...
[04 Sep 2007]
whitepaper The Super Urban Intelligent CArd (Suica Card) implemented by the JRE is a contactless smart card that allows automatic fare collection. Hitachi has implemented the back office systems that manage the cards and the millions of daily transactions at...
[31 Jul 2007]
News The next stage in the debit card's development is the introduction of prepaid cards and contactless payments - further reducing the need for carrying cash. Customers will see the rollout of contactless payments from the beginning of next year.
[01 Jun 2007]
News Visa is to launch contactless 'wave and pay' cards this autumn to replace low-value cash transactions across the UK. Around 200,000 consumers are expected to use the contactless cards in the first few months, along with some 2,000 retailers...
[04 May 2007]
News After introducing Oyster card-style contactless payments functionality into its plastic, Barclays has been working on a contactless system for taxis. The pair have developed a showcase cab as part of Barclays' ongoing trial to add Visa 'wave and...
[27 Apr 2007]
News Retailers are increasingly worried that the forthcoming launch of contactless payment cards in the UK could leave them significantly out of pocket as the cost of accepting payments this way could be potentially much more expensive than cash.
[24 Apr 2007]
News But she said this may all change with the arrival of contactless technology on cards. Sandra Quinn, director of communications at payments industry body Apacs, which carried out the research, said despite the consumer's continuing love affair with...
[13 Mar 2007]
Leader And now rather than hand over some cash or write a cheque it is possible to make a purchase by tapping a teller's till with your wallet or mobile phone using contactless and near field communications (NFC) payments.
[12 Mar 2007]
News Visa launched a mobile platform that it said will "lay the foundation" for the commercial deployment of contactless mobile payments and near-field communications (NFC) services around the world last month.
[12 Mar 2007]
News Contactless payments. As well as the obvious privacy concerns, experts have questioned how secure the passports are - and some claim to have cracked and cloned them already.was also the year contactless payments took centre stage.
[18 Dec 2006]
Comment Contactless payments. I have seen the future and it is contactless payments. What's the point of dual-mode mobiles, VoIP phones and laptops with built-in wireless cards when wi-fi on the hoof is so expensive no one gets to use them?
[14 Dec 2006]
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