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OTI to Supply Contactless and NFC Readers for Gasoline Stations in North America

Published: May 21 2013

Israel-based contactless and NFC vendor On Track Innovations announced Monday it had received an order for 30,000 readers for point-of-sale terminals at retail gasoline stations in North America.

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Taxis in Major U.S. Cities to Get NFC-Enabled Video Ads

Published: May 16 2013

Riders in 5,000 taxicabs in the U.S. would be able to tap on NFC tags on video advertising screens to download apps, brand information, coupons, maps, music and videos, according to technology suppliers that have equipped the taxis for potential advertising campaigns.

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Analyst: Banks Have More to Fear from Cloud-Based Technologies Than NFC

Published: May 13 2013

Banks have much more to fear from cloud-based mobile payment than from NFC, even if mobile operators control the secure elements that hold the banks’ payment applications.

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GSMA Proposes Global Standard for NFC-Enabled Loyalty and Couponing–Using SIM Cards

Published: May 9 2013
May 10 2013 (All day)

The GSMA mobile operator trade group is proposing a global standard for how point-of-sale terminals talk to NFC-enabled mobile wallets to enable consumers to redeem coupons and rewards.

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Taiwanese Bank Gets Approval for NFC-Enabled Credit Cards; Okay for Other Banks Expected

Published: May 9 2013

Taiwanese banking regulators, as expected, have approved the first bank to issue mobile credit cards that could be downloaded over the air to SIM cards.

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UK Retailer Marks & Spencer Sees Growing Use of Contactless

Published: May 7 2013

Marks & Spencer, one of the UK’s largest retailers, announced today it had rolled out contactless payment to 644 of its UK stores and said 14% of its card transactions under £20 (US$30.97) are contactless.

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Identive Reports Growing NFC Business; Blames Flat Sales, Losses, on U.S. Budget Cuts

Published: May 3 2013

U.S.-based Identive Group reported growing NFC and smart card reader business, but fell back into the red during for the first quarter, a loss it largely blamed on U.S. federal government budget cuts.

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German Bank and Telco Hold Small NFC Trial; Larger Launches Planned in Country This Year

Published: May 2 2013

As Germany gears up for NFC, German bank Dortmunder Volksbank along with Telefónica (O2) Germany have launched a small pilot putting a credit application onto SIM cards in Western Germany.

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Cashless Technology Company Announces Rollout of Isis SmartTap on Vending Machines

Published: May 1 2013

Vending technology company USA Technologies plans to integrate the SmartTap mobile-commerce software into all of the company’s nearly 100,000 NFC-enabled terminals on vending machines nationwide.

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Infineon Introduces New Embedded Secure Element, Hoping to Tap Growing Market

Published: Apr 30 2013

Germany-based Infineon Technologies today introduced a new embedded secure element, targeting the growing market for chips that handset makers are including in their NFC-enabled devices.

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Vendor Group: NFC Secure Element Market to Grow by Two-Thirds This Year

Published: Apr 29 2013

Smart card vendor association Eurosmart has substantially increased its estimate for NFC secure element shipments for 2012–by 50% to 150 million units–and forecasts that secure element shipments will grow by another 67% in 2013 to 250 million units.

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Gemalto Reveals Some Details of MCX Deal; Vendor Will Earn Fees for Transactions

Published: Apr 25 2013

France-based smart card and security vendor Gemalto will operate the mobile-payment platform for U.S. merchant group MCX, earning a fee for every transaction, in addition to what appears to be a hosting fee it says is worth tens of millions.

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Topic “EasyCard”

Taiwanese Regulators Approve NFC Joint Venture, but with Conditions

Published: Jan 23 2013
Jan 29 2013 (All day)

Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission has approved a joint venture among Taiwan’s five mobile operators and its major contactless payments service provider, EasyCard Corp., to build an NFC payments platform, but with conditions.

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Visa Taiwan Announces Growing payWave Transactions, Higher Tap-to-Pay Limit

Published: Jan 16 2013
Jan 16 2013 (All day)

Transactions with Visa payWave cards in Taiwan grew by 19% during the third quarter with spending up by 23%, according to Visa’s country office in Taiwan.

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MicroSD Vendor Announces Taiwanese M-Payment Trial Using HTC NFC Phones

Published: Jul 31 2012
Aug 8 2012 (All day)

Giesecke & Devrient Secure Flash Solutions has announced a trial launched last month in Taiwan by Cathay United Bank of mobile payment applications running on microSD cards in full NFC phones.

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Taiwanese Banks Plan to Launch M-Payment on iPhone and SWP microSD Cards

Published: Feb 13 2012

Three Taiwanese banks are seeking to enable their customers to tap their mobile phones to make purchases with MasterCard PayPass using microSD cards in a full Android NFC phone from HTC, as well as an iPhone attachment with an embedded chip, as part of separate NFC mobile-payment projects.

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Taiwanese Telcos to Sign Agreement on Path to NFC Joint Venture

Published: Oct 12 2011
Oct 14 2011 (All day)

Taiwan’s five mobile operators and its major contactless payment provider plan to sign a memo of understanding tomorrow with the goal of forming an Isis-style joint venture to help them roll out NFC services, NFC Times has learned.

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Taiwanese Telcos Meet for Talks on NFC Collaboration

Published: May 16 2011

Five Taiwanese mobile operators and the country’s largest contactless payment provider met Friday for talks to consider forming an alliance or joint venture to help them roll out NFC on the island nation, sources told NFC Times.

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Taiwan: Transit Card Operator Trials Bridge Technology

Published: Nov 26 2010
Scope: 
Trial
Launch: 
Nov 2010
Main Application: 
Ticketing (transit), payment
Users: 
1,000

The trial puts Taipei’s popular EasyCard transit application on a SIM overlay chip connected to a flexible antenna.

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Taiwan: Bank Tries Out MicroSDs in Full NFC Phones

Published: Jul 31 2012
Scope: 
Trial
Launch: 
Jun 2012
Main Application: 
Payment
Users: 
2,000

Cathay United customers are able to tap their phones to make contactles

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Taiwan: Attachment Enables iphone 4 with NFC for transit and retail payment

Published: Oct 13 2011
Scope: 
Rollout
Status: 
Planned
Launch: 
Oct 2011
Main Application: 
Payment, Transit ticketing
Users: 
850 (EasyCard-actual) up to 3,200 (EasyCard + PayPass-planned)

Taiwan’s largest mobile operator, Chunghwa Telecom, designed the sleeve for Apple’s iPhone 4 and 4S with an NFC chip and embedded secure element inside.

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Taiwan: Small 3G Telco Introduces Contactless SIM

Published: Oct 12 2009
Scope: 
Rollout
Status: 
Completed
Launch: 
Jan 2007
Users: 
More than 1,000

Vibo, a 3G telco in Taiwan’s saturated mobile market, introduced non-NFC contactless payment in September 2007, using the Taisys product.

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