contactless nfc
RSS contactless nfcAll change please: Your train ticket will never be the same again
News Smart ticketing, where a ticket is held on a chip rather than a piece of paper, was popularised in the UK by London's contactless Oyster card scheme, introduced in 2003. It also says contactless bank... [20 Aug 2009]
O2, NatWest cash in with prepay Visa cards
News Analysts have long been predicting a coming together of the mobile and payments markets owing to the ubiquity of mobile phones and the rise of contactless payment technologies such as NFC (near field... [16 Jul 2009]
Olympics tickets to double as Tube tickets, cash?
News The idea of combining a contactless payment card with ticketing capability is not new: Barclays OnePulse credit card, launched in 2007, has both Oyster card and NFC payments functionality. The London... [29 May 2009]
Mobile future: TV, power and the 'internet of things'
News One technology the chipmaker is backing is mobile TV, while others likely to make it big include banking, coupons and NFC for contactless payments. Figuring out new business models, solving the wireless... [06 May 2009]
How smartphones, netbooks will change the future of money
News Earlier this month for example, mobile operator Orange and credit card company Barclaycard announced a strategic partnership to develop m-payments technology including mobile wallet handsets - which use near field communications... [30 Mar 2009]
Barclaycard, Orange share a mobile wallet
News Earlier this year Barclays announced it would be working towards moving its entire fleet of debit cards onto a contactless footing, with all replacement cards issued from March this year being NFC-enabled. [09 Mar 2009]
Qualcomm pushes NFC a step closer to mobile
News Qualcomm is working with the open-standards NFC company Inside Contactless, in which it has a substantial investment, to create these reference designs. The manufacturer, which mainly makes chipsets for... [12 Feb 2009]
All Barclays debit cards contactless by 2011
News Barclays is to replace its entire fleet of debit cards with new plastic featuring contactless payments functionality. In addition, all new customers to the bank from March will be given contactless... [06 Jan 2009]
Visa demos the credit card with its very own PIN pad
News Alzetta told silicon.com the transition from contactless payment cards to near field communication (NFC) mobile devices is also firmly on Visa's long-term agenda and to that end the company has entered... [10 Nov 2008]
Mobile wallets to bulk out m-payments' future
News Mobile money transfers and contactless NFC (near field communications) will make up half of the overall payment mobile market globally in five years' time, according to a new report. NFC... [30 Oct 2008]
Scousers to go contactless on the buses
News Scousers are set to use contactless bankcards on a number of buses in Merseyside, following the announcement of a pilot of the technology by Stagecoach, MasterCard and The Royal Bank of Scotland. The Liverpool trial,... [21 Oct 2008]
Barclays contactless: More cards, more retailers
News Contactless capabilities are now set to be built into additional Barclaycards as the bank aims to better its target for seven figure take up of NFC-enabled cards. Barclays is preparing to expand its... [08 Sep 2008]
Five-year wait for O2 Oyster card mobiles
News Nine out of 10 trial participants were happy using NFC (near field communications) tech on a mobile phone - and the majority (78 per cent) said they would be interested in using mobile contactless... [02 Sep 2008]
NFC payments to reach tipping point in three years?
News The market for contactless mobile payments using near field communications (NFC) is set to reach a tipping point over the next three to five years, according to a new report by Juniper Research. The... [18 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.07.08
Round-Up And this weekend's O2 Wireless festival promises that some lucky punters will have access to luxury toilets with the help of contactless NFC wristbands. And so, the Round-Up empties its rucksack of... [04 Jul 2008]
