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

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]