Turkcell’s NFC wallet solution.
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...
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BIPA’s NFC Loyalty pilot
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...
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Paybox NFC launches with McDonalds and Merkur
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”....
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Nokia’s Lumia 920 & 820: Windows 8 and NFC
Today Nokia announced its first devices with Winows 8, the Lumia 920 and the smaller 820. These are the first Lumia phones from Nokia with the new operating system. The 920 comes with a 1,5 GHz dual...
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Nokia presents NFC Wallet and Windows 8 Proximity API
Today Nokia gave the first presentation on the NFC API for the new Windows 8 devices as well as their native wallet. The new Nokia 820 and the Nokia 920 already come with the new operating system, the...
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iPhone 5 without NFC
Looks like NFC for the iPhone was overhyped. When Apple announced its new smartphone today, NFC enthusiasts were disappointed. The iPhone 5 has no NFC and PassBook therefore will not allow touch...
View ArticleNFC Working group Austria founded
On Sept. 17th, 2012 officially the NFC working group Austria („NFC Arbeitskreis Österreich“) was founded as part of the Chamber of Commerce, Austria. Telcos, Banks and Services provides decided to...
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Paylife launches NFC
Today Austrian largest acquirer and issuer of credit cards as well as the prepaid product “Quick” — the Paylife Bank –, launched its NFC product portfolio of NFC products. PayLife launches quick...
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Spar starts to rollout NFC enabled Ingenico Terminals from card complete
Austria’s 2nd largest Retailer Spar is currently replacing its existing payment infrastructure. Today all of its stores are equipped with Hypercom Hybrid Terminals from Paylife. Since this week Spar...
View ArticleSamsung Wallet – but without NFC
Today at the mobile world congress (MWC) in barcelona Samsung showed its newest innovations for the Samsung Galaxy Series Devices: The Samsung Wallet. The wallet application — which is very similar to...
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