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Nov 09
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TORO finalist for SESAMES AWARDS (official release)

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TORO SELECTED AS FINALIST FOR SESAMES INNOVATION AWARD
Akami™ competes for best mobile application.
Hong Kong, November 9th 2009 – TORO, the pure player for NFC mobile platform development, is pleased to announce that their product AKAMI™ as been selected as a finalist for the prestigious SESAMES INNOVATION AWARDS in the MOBILE category.
“We are proud [...]

Author: Laurent Renard
Jun 03
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PN544, we will remember your name !

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“NOW SAMPLING: NXP’s PN544 complies with the SWP and HCI specifications”
NXP announced this June 2nd that their PN544 NFC chipset is finally ready and available for sampling. That is the piece of information that the entire NFC ecosystem was waiting for since the GSMA officially announced that they backed Gemalto’s proposal to turn the SIM [...]

Author: Laurent Renard
Apr 21
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Belgacom thinks big with ping.ping!

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Ping-Ping, launched by Belgacom in March, is a very smart move towards NFC mobile services.

Author: Laurent Renard
Mar 03
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Vélib’ in Paris, “U-bike” in Taipei

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Taipei City in innovating with the (very fast) deployment of the “U-bike” system, almost identical to the Vélib‘ system launched in Paris with great success on 15 July 2007. The service provider is Taishin Bank (!), the bikes themselves are manufactured by local world leader Giant and the payment system is managed by TSCC. The [...]

Author: Laurent Renard
Feb 06
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Taiwan-taxi (台灣大車隊) offering Visa Paywave

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The largest taxi company in Taiwan, Taiwan-taxi 台灣大車隊 turns to Visa Paywave for the payment of taxi fares that usually range from the minimum fee of NT$70 (US$ 2 - EUR 1.6) to NT$400 (US$ 12.5 - EUR 9.5). The case for contactless payment in taxi seems indeed quite obvious: fares represent small amounts, taxi [...]

Author: Laurent Renard
Jan 28
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Europe set for contactless payment?

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“Visa Europe will spend around EUR 10 million in 2009 to equip retailers with appropriate reading terminals which can accept payments made via Visa payWave contactless cards, reports Euroactiv.com citing the CEO of Visa Europe Peter Ayliffe.
The majority of readers are being distributed in the UK, followed by Italy and Turkey, France, Germany, Poland, Spain [...]

Author: Laurent Renard
Nov 03
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TORO at CARTES 2008

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CARTES takes place from Nov. 4th to 6th near Paris, France. It is the annual jamboree for every company that has something to do with smart cards. Since NFC has a lot to do with smart cards, TORO will be present at CARTES. COme and meet with us to see our joint demo with GEMALTO [...]

Author: Laurent Renard
Sep 19
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CARTES 2008 as an indicator for NFC’s emergence in 2009.

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CARTES 2008 as an indicator for NFC’s emergence in 2009.

Author: Laurent Renard
Aug 25
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Is Japan building its own NFC system?

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In an earlier article, I explain why Japan should NOT be considered the most advanced market for NFC because, although mobile Felica is widespread, this technology only allows the “card emulation” mode, and is missing out the “reader” and “Peer-to-Peer” modes.

Well, its seems that our Japanese friends are coming up with an answer that might [...]

Author: Laurent Renard
Jul 18
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Why NFC will succeed in Barcelona

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There is a quite extended metro system in Barcelona, so I was expecting to see people swipe their contactless card to check-in/out. I was surprised to discover that you still need to buy paper tickets, with all the inconveniencies that it supposes (cost, visual pollution, long queues, mechanical problems of readers, etc.). I wonder what [...]

Author: Laurent Renard
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