“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.

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 [...]

So after viewing this commercial from Barclay Card, does it make you want to have one too? Contactless Card is nothing new but how to make people want to have one and use it is what really matters. A bit of creativity and know how to communicate can turn a simple idea into a much [...]

NXP and BMW announced they have jointly developed a multifunctional car key which combines the usual car key functions with contactless payment and related solutions.
NXP and car maker BMW have jointly developed a multifunctional car key which combines the usual car key functions with contactless payment and related solutions; the companies even offer the possibility [...]