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 [...]

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

Observers keep scrutinizing the Japanese market to discover new mobile user behaviors, and they praise Mobile Felica as THE example to follow for the (future) expansion of NFC (Near-Field Communication). Indeed, figures of the penetration of the Osaifu-Keitai (Felica mobile wallet) are quite impressive with about 25 million phones equipped with the application. More impressive [...]

So Gemalto just announced their “payez mobile” initiative with five major French banks. In other words, Gemalto is becoming the de facto single TSM (Trusted Service Manager) for financial institutions in France (these five banks probably represent 90% of the retail banking market in France). This is good news for Gemalto, but also for the [...]

NFC is still a geek thing, when it should definitely be triggering the imagination of thousands service companies and other small businesses: hotels, real estate companies, airlines, classified ads companies, rental companies, social networks, etc. It is a user thing! Not a geek thing! It is technology made transparent, peer-to-peer, a link between the Internet [...]

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. [...]

Gemalto has announced its selection by Italian telecom company Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) to support the launch of a transportation-related NFC program in Trento. The program will enable TIM customers to use their mobile phones to access public transit.
TIM-issued phones will have SIM cards embedded with Gemalto applications, enabling the remote purchase of tickets at [...]

A new report done by IDTechEx compares and contrasts Near Field Communication, and particularly RFID enabled mobile phones, with contactless smart cards and tickets. It emphasizes how they are forms of RFID with advantages and disadvantages and different development paths. The researchers came to the conclusion that there will continue to be rapid growth in [...]

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Mobile network operator Orange has confirmed it would quickly expand its launch of Near Field Communication services to other cities in France, then to Europe, following its planned rollout of NFC services in the southwestern city of Bordeaux early next year.
Full article in CardTechnology