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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 “France”

Orange and China Mobile Sign Agreement to Promote SIM-Based NFC Standards

Published: Dec 19 2012

France Telecom-Orange and China Mobile, the largest mobile operators in their respective home markets, have signed a memo of understanding to work together to speed the commercialization of NFC SIM cards.

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France’s No. 2 Telco SFR to Delve into Payments Market, Roll out NFC SIMs

Published: Sep 24 2012

France’s No. 2 mobile operator SFR is the latest telco with plans to get into the payments market, today announcing it would roll out a contactless co-branded prepaid card with the help of MasterCard Worldwide, with the intention of expanding the service to NFC phones.

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French Retailer to Trial NFC Shopping App with Tags but without Telcos

Published: Sep 11 2012

Groupe Casino, one of France’s largest retail chains, plans to launch an NFC mobile-shopping trial at one of its Paris supermarkets this fall, deploying 25,000 tags on store shelves.

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French Retailers Try Out NFC for Loyalty Program and ID for Home-Shopping Application

Published: Jul 19 2012
Jul 23 2012 (All day)

Retailers in Paris have launched a pair of pilots with an NFC option, one for loyalty and the other to identify customers when they pick up purchases after shopping online at home.

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Orange to Roll Out NFC SIMs as it Tries to Seed French Market

Published: Jun 26 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban

French mobile operators have announced they will more than double the number of NFC-enabled phones rolled out to subscribers by the end of 2012, to 2.5 million, the most of any country in Europe, they predict.

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Oberthur Announces TSM Win with French Bank

Published: Feb 22 2012

France-based Oberthur Technologies announced today it has won a contract to supply trusted service management to French bank Société Générale, for the bank’s eventual roll out of NFC payment.

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France: French Bank to Launch MicroSD Trial in NFC Showcase Cities

Published: Jun 29 2011
Scope: 
Trial
Launch: 
Jun 2011
Main Application: 
Payment
Users: 
500

Visa and the BPCE banking group plan to hold their trial in Nice and Strasbourg among a combi

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French Government to Offer Up to €20 million in NFC Funding for Cities

Published: May 30 2011

The French government has announced it will offer up to €20 million (US$28.6 million) to French cities and other local agencies to assist them in rolling out NFC services.

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French Telcos Eager to Put More NFC Phones on Sale

Published: Apr 28 2011

French mobile operators expect to have up to 10 NFC phone models on sale by the end of the year, but may have trouble meeting their goal of selling 1 million of the phones in 2011.

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Orange to Put NFC Phones on Sale Nationally in France

Published: Dec 13 2010

France Telecom-Orange will put NFC phones on sale in its shops throughout France starting in January–without the NFC services to match–hoping to seed the market with devices.

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