Logomotion, a mobile payment solution provider, introduced a mobile contactless payment system that can be added to existing handsets that have a microSD memory card slot. Logomotion’s LGM Card provides a channel for banks to offer mobile contactless payment services to the mass market by unlocking the handsets with memory card slots currently being used […]

Market research firm Paradigm Sample released the results of its new mobile survey stating that 71% of convenience store customers would be willing to pay for their purchases with mobile wallets through their phones or tablets. Paradigm conducted the survey to help companies understand the potential acceptance of mobile payments and mobile banking. Customers have […]

Bank of America Corp is piloting a new way for customers to pay for items at store registers, potentially changing the way we make payments in the future, reports Reuters. With the new technology consumers will scan an image with their smartphones, which taps into a mobile wallet for payment. The pilot, which is taking […]

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is in the process of upgrading its fare collection system to one that uses all contactless smart cards. Greg Garback, executive officer in the Department of Finance at the agency, discussed the impending changes at a meeting of the Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board. He addressed plans to […]

Visa has released its London 2012 Olympics NFC and contactless usage statistics, where the company offered the unique opportunity to showcase the potential of contactless payments to its partners and members from all around the globe, according to NFC World. Visa staff, partners, Visa-sponsored athletes and journalists all issued with their Samsung Galaxy S III […]

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have created a verification mechanism that may eliminate the security weaknesses associated with NFC. The new software — developed under director and founder of UAB’s Security and Privacy In Emerging Computing and Networking Systems (SPIES) Nitesh Saxena — is capable of determining the distance between a valid […]

LevelUp, the mobile payments arm of Boston-based startup SCVNGR, announced that it will integrate NFC payments into its current QR code-based mobile payments system. The company is now offering its merchant partners new payment terminals that can scan QR codes as well as handle NFC tap-to-pay transactions from any NFC-enabled mobile device. Now, LevelUp member […]

Everything Everywhere, Telefonica UK (O2) and Vodafone UK have announced that their NFC mobile payments and marketing joint venture, Project Oscar, has been cleared by the European Commission following an investigation started in March. The JV’s mobile marketing platform is expected to be the first Project Oscar service brought to market. According to the partners, […]

GlobalPlatform announced that it will hold a one-day training session in Nice, France that will educate participants on the role of GlobalPlatform Specifications in mobile contactless services. The training session, titled “GlobalPlatform for Contactless,” will take place on September 26 at the B4 Nice Plaza. Key topics will include how GlobalPlatform’s technology supports the mobile […]

Orange and Barclaycard are ready to release the first Android smart phone compatible with their Quick Tap contactless payments service. From its debut in May, 2011, Quick Tap has been available only on the Samsung Tocco and Samsung Wave 578. In April, it was announced that Quick Tap would be expanded to NFC-enabled Android handsets. […]