Raiffeisen CardService plans to issue vpay (debitcard) and cardis (prepaid purse) for contactless payment in combination with iCaisse for iPhone 4 and 4S. Both means of payment are operating contactless only and the sensitive data is stored on a micro SDCard with an embedded smartcard chip.
Sonntag, 22 Januar 2012
Turkey’s largest operator, Turkcell, is currently aggressively rolling out NFC devices with MasterCard’s contactless payment functionality paypass. Currently Turkcell is offering three different devices: The T11 is made by ZTE and the T20, which is manufactured by Huawei, and also know as U8650. On top the most current BlackBerry the Bold 9900 is also used for Turkcell’s wallet app, which is a SIM based solution
Mittwoch, 4 Januar 2012
Germany’s Sparkassen are already in an extended phase in their NFC project, issuing contactless cards and putting according terminals into the market. The plan is to issue about 16 Mio. Cards till August 2012. Currently the project is in a pilot phase with merchants situated in the area of Hannover, Braunschweig, Wolfsburg. The NFC card can be use for payments at the POS as well as for automated vending.
Freitag, 30 Dezember 2011
Recently the XDA-Developer lukegb described how to run the current version of Google Wallet on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. There are also other approaches to modify Google Wallet. The devices need to be rooted in order to have all the rights in order to access the embedded secure element of the device. Google Wallet is configured (partly hardcoded) to use the embedded secure element.
Donnerstag, 29 Dezember 2011
According to different sources (mobilepaymentstoday.com, computerworld.ch, mobilecommercedaily.com) PayPal has launched an NFC pilot in Sweden. The payment method will be accepted at two Stockholm retailers: sports equipment provider Alpingaraget and electronics outlet Webhallen.
Mittwoch, 28 Dezember 2011
NFC offers three different operating modes:
- Card Emulation Mode
- Reader Writer Mode
- Peer-2-Peer Mode
Reader Writer Mode is already available in Android since the first Gingerbread release in December 2010. Card Emulation Mode, which is actually required for Google Wallet, is not yet available for public. Peer-2-Peer Mode as defined in ISO 18092 is now finding its way into Android devices, also known as “Android Beam”.
Dienstag, 27 Dezember 2011
Today contactless technology is already widespread in public transport. NXP with its products MIFARE Plus (former Mifare Classic) and MIFARE DESFire is the most dominate player besides Sony with FeliCa which is commonly used in Asia.
Donnerstag, 22 Dezember 2011
Austria’s largest direct bank easybank and BAWAG/PSK launched their mobile banking apps for Android and iOS today. Both apps come with a sophisticated user interfaces as well as all neccessary banking features required by the customer. The apps have a playful approach in order to lift mobile banking experience to a next level.
Sonntag, 18 Dezember 2011
RTA is Dubai’s Public Transport Operator. RTA’s NOL Card can be used for transportation on the metro, busses or water taxis. NOL Card can also be used for paying parking fees as well as taxis. Currently there are four different kinds of NOL Cards. Three of them (silver, gold, blue) are based on MIFARE DESFire and act as an e-purse whereas the red one uses MIFARE UltraLight, which can be loaded with 10 trips.
Dienstag, 13 Dezember 2011
Daimler’s mobility provider Car2Go launched in Vienna on Dec 6th. The company provides 300 Smart-For-2 for the city of Vienna. Only Member Card holders can use the cars. The member card is actually a Mifare DESFire Card. Therefore the cars have an on-board unit containing a contactless reader and a GPRS Modem that is connected to the communication bus system of the car. Using the Member Card, the doors of the car are unlocked.
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