Intel and MasterCard Worldwide have announced plans to enable consumers to tap their NFC phones and contactless cards on notebook computers to shop on the Web.
The multiyear collaboration is intended to build the technology, including contactless or NFC readers, into a new category of slim, light laptops packing Intel chips, which the giant chip maker calls Ultrabooks. Other PCs and devices supporting online payment would follow.
The readers combined with Intel’s Identity Protection Technology would enable consumers to tap phones, cards and stickers that carry MasterCard’s PayPass application to make purchases on Web sites that support the protection technology.