Barcelona, Spain and Taipei, Taiwan – February 15, 2010. Toro Development Ldt. (TORO) and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) are working together to develop a cutting-edge offering for mobile financial applications based on G&D’s Mobile Security Card and TORO’s Akami mobile platform. Both companies are contributing their respective expertise in hardware, firmware, middleware, mobile software, and [...]

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 [...]

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

According to NearFieldCommunicationWorld report, Hong-Kong based Cell-Idea ( who is also Toro’s sister company) has launched “With Me”, an NFC device that adds near field communication functionality to any Bluetooth-equipped mobile handset.

Cell Idea adds NFC to any Bluetooth phone
UPDATED: Consumers can simply pair the company’s new ‘With Me’ device, expected to retail at US$25, with [...]

NearFieldCommunicationsworld.com just posted an article about the fast growing of NFC forum, talked about all the new members joined NFC forum and the upgraded membership recently. And TORO is among the new comers, just between Sagem Mobiles and Toshiba. You can see the article here.
Semiconductor Energy Laboratory has joined as a Principal Member alongside a [...]

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!

TORO was mentioned in the ING press conference. from Toro on Vimeo.
Today is a big day for Romanian,because it’s the official date of their first NFC pilot in Romania , and it’s also a big day for TORO, because TORO is playing an important part in this pilot, along with ING, MasterCard, Collis and Venyon. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]