Thousands of Singapore Merchants Involved for NFC Enabled Nation

News 3 new results for NFC Mobile Payment

Mobile Commerce Sees Staggering Growth Daily Deal Media mobile commerce, mobile payments, This week Google released an update to Google Wallet, their NFC mobile payments application for Android, which moves the service to the cloud and expands support from just MasterCard to include Visa and Discover ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Deal Media

Singapore on the cusp of becoming an NFC-enabled nation; thousands of ... SGentrepreneurs (press release) Gemalto, a global digital security company that is leading an NFC consortium in Singapore, has announced that it is finally ready to launch a slew of NFC-enabled mobile payment services. The consortium, which consists of Citibank, DBS, EZ-Link, and all ... Singapore on the cusp of becoming an NFC-enabled nation; thousands of merchants involved August 3, 2012 by Terence LEE      Previously, we’ve written that 2012 could be a big year for Near-field Communication Technology. Today, Singapore has taken a big step towards making it happen. Gemalto, a global digital security company that is leading an NFC consortium in Singapore, has announced that it is finally ready to launch a slew of NFC-enabled mobile payment services. The consortium, which consists of Citibank, DBS, EZ-Link, and all three mobile operators in Singapore — M1, SingTel, and StarHub,  is supported by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). If you’re hazy on what NFC is, it is essentially a technology that, among other uses, turns smartphones into mobile wallets. It essentially eliminates the need to bring out physical wallets and credit cards. The technology, however, is complex and has many moving parts, hence the need to set up a consortium to develop the necessary infrastructure and ecosystem. About US$40M in total will be pumped in by the consortium and IDA to develop the infrastructure. Gemalto itself is responsible for developing a secure, unified, and comprehensive third-party infrastructure for NFC services. See all stories on this topic » SGentrepreneurs (press release)

Mobile Commerce in Virtual and Augmented Reality SBWire (press release) This research includes evaluation of NFC, NFC vs. Cloud Payments, impacts and opportunities with LTE, mobile payments market forecast, and more. It also provides analysis of Augmented Reality can be used in social selling and social media interaction. See all stories on this topic »

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