“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 [...]

After the great presentation from Laurent at Under the Radar: Mobility, CNET did a story about Under The Radar: Monetize With Mobile session and use TORO’s presentation and Laurent as the main photo.
Here is the part about Toro:
Both Billing Revolution and Toro are trying to change the way people pay or access payment information with [...]

Under The Radar Conference, November 12 2008, Mountain View, California Coverage
by Steve Follmer
Toro was selected to compete at Under The Radar on November 12th, held at Microsoft’s embassy in Silicon Valley. I was able to accompany their CEO, Laurent Renard, and wanted to offer a summary to the Mobile Monday community.
UTR was a tremendous opportunity [...]

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 [...]

GSMA mobile innovation award APAC Tournament is approaching, and TORO is among several innovators to be listed on GSMA website, We are positive we will be selected to compete this year, wish us luck! You can see TORO’s profile here.

TORO has been selected among 32 startups globally to present at the Under-The-Radar conference in November in Mountain View, CA.

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

“Under the Radar” is a major annual event held in California focusing on early stage, innovative companies and building links between those startups and VCs, industrials and influent bloggers. You can visit their blog to find out more about “Under the Radar“. Toro was contacted by “Under the Radar” for their conference this year, “Under [...]

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So the NFC & International Micropayment Forum met for the second time in Taipei on June 24th 2008. Toro went there because, as a Taiwan-based company, it was kind of our duty to attend the event. Moreover, Collis was sponsoring the event and since they are one of our shareholders, we wanted to support them. [...]