Toro is finalist for the Sesames awards at Cartes 2009 category mobile

“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 [...]

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

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 [...]

The French press was relaying the news yesterday that the 3 French mobile carriers had settled an alliance with major financial institutions to launch a common NFC initiative called ERGOSUM. Now it’s for real, France is the fast mover towards a NFC world in Europe!

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.

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 [...]

Direct quote from Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, transcript from Jim Cramer’s Mad Money show on CNBC, August 13th:
- CRAMER: RIGHT NOW PREDOMINATELY DESKTOP, BUT COUNTRIES LIKE JAPAN, MOBILE COMPUTING. IS THAT GOING TO BE UP TO SNUFF AND CAN YOU MAKE AS MUCH MONEY IN MOBILE COMPUTING BECAUSE OF THE CELL PHONE COMPANIES?
- SCHMIDT: [...]