Over the weekend it was reported that Apple hired Benjamin Vigier, an expert in near field communication (NFC), a short range wireless protocol most synonymous with contactless payments. This key Apple hire is perhaps the strongest public signal yet of Apple’s intent to use NFC to build on its micropayments franchise and disrupt traditional point of sale [...]

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Qantas today announced it had worked closely with Marc Newson in the design of its new Next Generation Check-in experience, which will launch in Perth next week. Qantas Executive Manager Customer Experience, Ms Alison Webster, said the Next Generation Check-in elements had been developed with Qantas Creative Director Marc Newson, who provided creative direction on [...]

Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia‘s executive vice president for markets, has announced that all new smartphones introduced by the company from 2011 will come with NFC. Vanjoki, who is responsible for consumer insights, sales, marketing, manufacturing and logistics across all Nokia products and services, made the announcement during a keynote presentation at the Mobey Forum‘s 10th anniversary [...]

A mobile contactless payment solution, designed to enable iPhone users to make contactless transactions, such as Visa mobile payments, by simply waving the iPhone in front of a contactless payment terminal, has been launched. The solution, In2Pay, has been introduced by DeviceFidelity. The solution combines DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay microSD technology with a specially designed, patent-pending protective [...]

Sarah Kessler explains us on mashable.com the six ways NFC technology could chanfe our daily lives. For shure it will also have a big impact on the airline business. The future standard for Boarding Passes will be NFC … : In the realm of new technologies, near field communication (NFC) is not a new or [...]

Visa and DeviceFidelity are working to allow iPhone users to make payments by simply waving their iPhone in front of a contactless payment terminal. The new technology, developed by DeviceFidelity and certified by Apple, combines a protective iPhone case with a secure memory card that hosts Visa’s contactless payment application, called Visa payWave. The technology [...]

Airlines like Air France are currently working on the implementation of a mobile NFC Boarding Pass. Some experimental implementations have been realized, but one of the big problems is that there are still very few NFC enabled mobile or smartphones on the market. Read below an excellent post we found on worldmate.com and which explains [...]

Contactless & NFC City League is an initiative of the the producers of contactless-intelligence.tv. It’s aim is to rank cities according to their contactless and nfc projects and to give local authorities and industry players an objective comparison of where they stand with their trials on a worldwide level. The league takes a variety of [...]

INSIDE Contactless, Sagem Orga (Safran Group) and TazTag announced the joint development of a new method of delivering NFC payment functionality. Based on TazTag’s innovative TazCard®, the new device is currently in pre-alpha testing and shows the feasibility of an option that facilitates NFC contactless payment transactions while providing full NFC functionality for other applications [...]

PatentlyApple reported today that Apple has filed a patent for a travel app called iTravel that books flights, hotels and car reservations, as well as providing ticketless check-in using Near Field Communications (NFC), a short-range wireless technology. Apple has already indicated its interest in the ticketing space by filing a patent for “Concert Ticket +”, [...]

This extensive report looks at the current and future market for mobile ticketing applications & solutions, providing detailed analysis as well as revenue, user and frequency of purchase forecasts, broken down into the three major sectors as well as two sub-segments for Transport (Rail, Metro & Bus; and Airline Ticketing). MarketResearch.com has announced the addition [...]