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Paybox NFC launches with McDonalds and Merkur
Written by NFC Admin Dienstag, 17 April 2012 11:49
While contactless creditcards have been in the news in the recent month due to security and privacy, A1 Telekom Austria today launched their NFC payment system for low value payment “Paybox NFC”. Customers can use stickers or NFC enabled phones — 3 Blackberrys (Bold 9900, Curve 9360, Curve 9380), a Samsung phone (Galaxy SII), the most current Sony Xperia and a HTC One X with NFC SIMs have been presented as well.
Schlagwörter: a1, mcdonalds, merkur, nfc, paybox, payment | Posted under Allgemein, NFC Phones, Payment | Keine Kommentare
Raiffeisen’s vpay launch delayed – Linz still pays cash.
Written by NFC Admin Sonntag, 8 April 2012 03:16
Raiffeisen announced in February to launch a vpay pilot in Linz in the beginning of April. An on-site inspection at Linz’s Suedbahnhof Markt showed, that neither terminals nor the payment devices (iCaisses with SD-Cards) have been rolled out. We have been talking to different Merchants at the Suedbahnhof Markt that told us, that the launch has been postponed.
Schlagwörter: Raiffeisen vpay cardis Linz | Posted under EMV Payment, Payment | Keine Kommentare
How to read a contactless credit card such as Visa paywave or MasterCard paypass
Written by NFC Admin Montag, 2 April 2012 08:21
RFID enabled creditcards such as MasterCard paypass or Visa paywave have been in the news in the recent time due to the Forbes article on cloning of RFID creditcards as well as the Analysis from viaForensics. The vulnerably of these types of cards is not new. Already in 2006 researchers were able to read creditcard data form such cards as shown by the RSA labs. So far the reading of such cards was demonstrated with creditcard reads such as Vivopay or Verifone Terminals. Thru a new Android app reading of RFID creditcard is now possible for everyone with an NFC enabled phone.
Schlagwörter: android, creditcard, hacked, paypass, Paywave, RFID | Posted under Allgemein, m-Commerce, NFC Phones, NFC Tech, Payment | Keine Kommentare
BIPA’s NFC Loyalty pilot
Written by NFC Admin Donnerstag, 1 März 2012 12:49
In November 2011 T-Mobile and REWE’s Pharmacy Store Chain BIPA announced the pilot to test an NFC enabled loyalty schema. The BIPA-Card is a wide spread loyalty card for the customers of the store chain similar to other customer cards of the REWE family like the “Friends of Merkur” card or the “Billa Vorteilscard”. Currently those cards shop a simple barcode with is scanned at the POS and therefore the customer received special reward points and discounts.
Schlagwörter: bipa, loyalty, nfc, rewe, sd-card, sticker, t-mobile | Posted under Allgemein, m-Commerce, NFC Phones, NFC Tech | Keine Kommentare
NFC Chips for the mass
Written by NFC Admin Dienstag, 28 Februar 2012 01:41
This year’s mobile world congress in Barcelona was a high light with regard to NFC technology. Lot’s of new phones as well as a lot of new NFC chips were present at the show. Although there was a lot of innovation, the NXP platform is still the most favored on by the handset manufactures due to the smooth integration into the Android platform as well as the widely tested chip in different pilots and trials.
Schlagwörter: CLRC663, PN547, S3FHRN2, SENHRN2, ST21NFCA, WiLink 8.0 | Posted under Allgemein, NFC Tech | Keine Kommentare
Raiffeisen issues vpay and cardis
Written by NFC Admin Freitag, 27 Januar 2012 09:15
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.
Schlagwörter: booster sticker, cardis, moneto.me, raiffeisen, vpay | Posted under Allgemein, EMV Payment, Payment | Keine Kommentare
Turkcell’s NFC wallet solution.
Written by NFC Admin Sonntag, 22 Januar 2012 10:13
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
Schlagwörter: nfc, paypass, t11, t20, turkcell, u8650 | Posted under Allgemein, NFC Phones, NFC Tech | Keine Kommentare
NFC Card for Germany
Written by NFC Admin Mittwoch, 4 Januar 2012 07:46
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.
Schlagwörter: B+S, Geldkarte, nfc | Posted under m-Commerce, NFC Tech, Payment | Keine Kommentare
PayPal pilots NFC payment in Sweden
Written by NFC Admin Donnerstag, 29 Dezember 2011 06:47
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.
Schlagwörter: nfc, PayPal, Point AB, Sweden | Posted under Allgemein, m-Commerce, Payment | 3 Kommentare
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