40 "Mobile Payment" Headline News Stories for June 15th

GlobalCollect Offers BOKU as Mobile Payment Checkout to its ... MarketWatch (press release) BOKU's mobile payment network is available in 67 countries through more than 260 mobile network operators, offering GlobalCollect merchants a potential ... See all stories on this topic »

Nationz Technologies Licenses MIPS Technologies' Processor ... MarketWatch (press release) The 2.4G mobile payment solution standard, originally developed by Nationz, applies ultra-high frequency to near-field precision applications. Based on this ... See all stories on this topic »

Paydiant and pcAmerica Launch Fully Integrated Mobile Payments ... MarketWatch (press release) Paydiant provides a white-label mobile payment and offer platform that allows banks, retailers and restaurants to deploy mobile wallet capabilities into their own ... See all stories on this topic »

Burger King offers mobile payment app Mobile Payments Today Fast food chain Burger King Corp. is offering a new mobile payment app. The program is being piloted at 50 Salt Lake City-area Burger King restaurants. The BK ... See all stories on this topic »

CSI Enterprises Inc.'s globalVCard™ Leads High Profile Executives ... Virtual-Strategy Magazine CSI Enterprises, Inc., a leader in innovative financial solutions for enterprises and businesses, revolutionized the mobile payment market with the launch of the ... See all stories on this topic »

Hungry consumers can now pay for Whoppers sans wallets InternetRetailer.com Burger King Corp. announced today it is testing a mobile payment service in 50 of its locations in the Utah capital and surrounding metropolitan areas. The BK ... See all stories on this topic »

iOS 6 Passbook vs. Google Wallet CNET Apple's Passbook will beat Google Wallet by killing the whole mobile-payment game. Read this blog post by Brian Bennett on iPhone Atlas. See all stories on this topic »

Mobile bill payment app from TIO offers real time payments Mobile Payments Today Bill payment company TIO Networks Corp. has launched its new TIO MobilePay app that lets consumers in the U.S. pay multiple bills with their Visa and ... See all stories on this topic »

Samsung takes a different approach to NFC with TecTiles TechSpot The idea of a mobile payment system using Near Field Communication (NFC) has been a topic of conversation for some time now. Companies like Google have ... See all stories on this topic »

Dialog Axiata launches Mobile Money Service Ceylon Daily News "Accordingly, the Mobile Payment regulations and associated enabling environment established by the CBSL has been designed to extend the benefits of ... See all stories on this topic » Ceylon Daily News

Banks slow with payment tech innovation: mHITs CEO Computerworld Australia When it comes to innovative payment technologies, banks have got quite a lot of catching up to do, according to Harold Dimpel, CEO of mobile payment ... See all stories on this topic »

STMicroelectronics Near-Field Communication Technology To ... AZoSensors "ST's innovative solution can be adapted for use in various applications such as Smart Metering, NFC mobile payment applications, and Internet of Things, ... See all stories on this topic »

Will Banking Apps Kill Debit Cards? Mobiledia ... overnight, but this is the way things are headed, and this latest innovation is more than just a gimmick -- it's a harbinger for the future of mobile payment. See all stories on this topic » Mobiledia

Qualcomm partners with Burger King on payments pilot for iOS ... Fiercemobilecontent Experts believe that mobile payment offerings like BK Mobile Crown Card could eliminate the need for consumers to carry cash and credit cards by the year ... See all stories on this topic »

Samsung Introduces New NFC Sticker System For NFC-Equipped ... Mobile Magazine NFC technology is becoming more and more commonplace in today's smartphones, but the truth is that outside of mobile payment systems such as Google ... See all stories on this topic »

Burger King Launches Mobile Payment Pilot American Banker (subscription) In the latest case of a retailer offering mobile payments, the fast-food giant is working with QR codes and Firethorn Mobile software. See all stories on this topic »

Square now processing $6 billion in payments annually, hires first ... The Verge Square, the upstart mobile payment processing system that's given pause to giants like VeriFone, is hiring its first chief financial officer to deal with a growing ... See all stories on this topic »

You are here: HomeSprint working on NFC wallet, says report Global Telecoms Business Leaked screenshots indicate Sprint's mobile-payment service will support loyalty cards and credit cards. See all stories on this topic »

Square nabs Salesforce exec, reaches $6B+ in payments VatorNews The San Francisco-based mobile payment service announced today that it has hired Sarah Friar as its new Chief Financial Officer. Up to this point, Friar has ... See all stories on this topic »

iZettle Mobile Payment System Releases Developer API Geeky gadgets iZettle says it already has more than 50000 users and ha recently been testing its new mobile payment service. An Example for the use of iZettle's new ... See all stories on this topic » Geeky gadgets

Developed world: Mobile banking means boats and aircraft for some Financial Times ... world that lack traditional banking and fixed line telephone infrastructure, mobile networks have filled the gap, providing mobile-to-mobile payment services. See all stories on this topic » Financial Times

Real Economy Report Creamer Media's Engineering News The project, in partnership with Mobile Payment Corporation (MPC) and First National Bank (FNB), is aimed at empowering entrepreneurs, using PPC's ... See all stories on this topic »

Square Hires Former Salesforce SVP Sarah Friar As CFO, Now ... TechCrunch Mobile payment service Square today announced that it has hired Sarah Friar as its new Chief Financial Officer. Until now, Friar was the Senior Vice President ... See all stories on this topic » TechCrunch

Square adds CFO, says it has 300 employees, handles $6B annually Los Angeles Times Square, the mobile payment start-up, announced it has hired a chief financial officer while also giving some metrics for the state of the company. See all stories on this topic »

Square Poaches CFO From Salesforce NBC Bay Area Jack Dorsey's mobile payment startup Square has poached a senior executive from just a few blocks away to lead the company's international expansion. See all stories on this topic »

'Mobile commerce expected to grow to RM3.43b' Business Times - Malaysia "Retailers with an online presence must also enhance their mobile payment system site, because the lack of it would cost a lot of traffic dropout," he said. See all stories on this topic »

Square grabs new CFO SlashGear Of course, as Square grows, so do its competitors, so it needs to keep as up-to-date on the mobile payment market as possible. So far, it's doing pretty well. See all stories on this topic » SlashGear

Blogs 12 new results for "Mobile Payment"

StorefrontBacktalk » Blog Archive » Burger King Mobile Payment ... By Evan Schuman Burger King has been doing its own mobile payment at about 50 stores near Salt Lake City, Utah. But the fast-food chain isn't working with Google Wallet, ISIS, PayPal or any of the other major mobile players. Its approach is trying to avoid the ... StorefrontBacktalk

PayPal Here - Payments for health and fitness businesses | Get ... By inForm Thanks to our good friends over at PayPal we're lucky enough to have our hands on the all new PayPal Here mobile payment solution. Mobile Payment with inForm and PayPal Here. PayPal Here is the world's first global mobile payments ... Get inForm - Practice Management,...

Apple's most underrated WWDC announcement By Cody Lee But from the outside, it seems like the key to a successful mobile payment platform can be broken down into a 3-part equation. First, you have to build a large user-base — the bigger the better — and convince them all to give you their credit ... iDownloadBlog.com

MMA Forum exec: Value must be added to apps - Mobile Commerce ... By Lauren Johnson Additionally, the session gave attendees real-world examples and predicted numbers for mobile payment solutions from retailers. "Any merchant that figures out how to make it valuable for you to download their app will have the benefit of an ... Mobile Commerce Daily

RBS follows mobile wallet trend with card-free ATM withdrawals ... By Liat Clark "In a country like India where mobile phones are more widespread than the financial systems, mobile payment is the next big alternative payment method," said Shashank Joshi, managing director of Money-on-Mobile. Image: Shutterstock ... Wired.co.uk - News

indi.ca » Dialog Launches Mobile Payments By indi The mobile payment service can be used to pay utility bills or to buy goods and services online or even make over the counter payments at thousands of shops across the island, Fariq Cader, head of Dialog's e-ecommerce service said. indi.ca

Phil Schiller: App Store is more democratic than traditional retail ... By Jordan Kahn He said so-called digital wallet mobile-payment services are "all fighting over their piece of the pie, and we aren't doing that." Schiller also defended the methods Apple currently uses to promote apps in the App Store: Mr. Schiller also pointed ... 9to5Mac

The 3 Best Mobile Payment Applications Software By J Mobile payment applications allow businesses to turn smartphones and tablets into point-of-sale machines that are just as useful and efficient as those. Premium Joomla Themes

Telecom Stock Outlook - June 2012 - Zacks.com By Zacks Equity Research This includes IPTV, collaboration and cloud computing, videoconferencing and mobile payment, to name a few. Research firm Ovum recently reported that global revenue of telecom service providers exceeded $1.91 trillion in 2011, ... Zacks Investment Research - All...

PaymentsJournal Introduces Debit and Banking Channels Strategy ... "Debit payments are rapidly evolving into a wide variety of pay now-related forms including registered mobile payment accounts, person-to-person payments, contactless, and ACH-based payments. The opportunity to displace paper checks ... Business - Latest News

ATM fraud has declined by 98.5% – CBN — The Punch - Nigeria's ... By omosco He said, "Because we know that the bank branches in Nigeria are not well spread, you go to some rural areas where you won't find the branch of any bank, what we did was to introduce the mobile payment system. So you can go cash-less by ... The Punch - Nigeria's Most Widely...

Analysts like Apple's WWDC unveil, but disappointed there was not ... By Dean Wilson He believes this will strengthen things for the iPhone 5 launch, with Passbook considered a precusor to a mobile payment service from Apple that the financial firm calls "iPay." Analysts like Apple's WWDC unveil, but disappointed there was not ... VR-Zone Articles

Web 6 new results for "Mobile Payment"

Multitude of systems hinders mobile payment in China｜Economy ... The widespread adoption of mobile payment systems is being hindered by the huge variety of devices used by people in China and the struggle between bank ... www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid...

POS: Coming to a Smartphone Near You - QSR magazine Smartphone technology gives businesses and consumers payment flexibility. Mobile payment platforms help operators stay flexible with their POS systems. www.qsrmagazine.com/.../pos-coming-smartphone-near-you

GlobalCollect Offers BOKU as Mobile Payment Checkout to its ... From Yahoo! Finance: BOKU, Inc. and GlobalCollect, the leading provider of online payment services in the eCommerce market, announced today GlobalCollect ... finance.yahoo.com/.../globalcollect-offers-boku-mobile-paym...

SCVNGR snags USD12m for mobile payment app - StrategyEye ... SCVNGR, a social location-based app, has raised USD12m for its payment app LevelUp from Highland Capital, Google Ventures, Balderton Capital, ... www.strategyeyedigitalmedia.com/.../scvngr_snags_usd12m_f...

Rumor: Sprint Releasing Its Own Mobile Payment Service Called ... Rumor: Sprint Releasing Its Own Mobile Payment Service Called "Touch," Google Wallet Now Left High And Dry. Well, we knew it was a possibility, and given ... www.hangoutnetworks.com/.../rumor-sprint-releasing-its-own-...

Facebook Takes 2 Steps Into Easy Mobile Payments | NFC Mobile ... NFC Mobile Payment Industry News Blog ... Bocktown also uses Tabbedout, a mobile payment application available for iPhones and Androids, which allows ... epaymentnews.blogspot.com/.../facebook-takes-2-steps-into-ea...

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Global Payments Reports Progress of Continuing Investigation

ATLANTA, June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN), a leader in payment processing services, previously announced that it had identified and self-reported unauthorized access into its processing system.

Based on the investigation to date, the Company continues to believe that a limited portion of its North American card processing system was affected. As discussed in our earlier announcement, the Company's continuing forensic investigation confirms that actual card numbers that may have been exported did not exceed 1,500,000.  The Company has, however, provided a larger quantity of card numbers to industry brands to enable them to proactively monitor cardholder activity.  The evidence continues to indicate that the potential card exportation was limited to Track 2 data. 

The Company's ongoing investigation recently revealed potential unauthorized access to servers containing personal information collected from a subset of merchant applicants.  It is unclear whether the intruders looked at or took any personal information from the Company's systems; however, the Company will notify potentially-affected individuals in the coming days with helpful information and make available credit monitoring and identity protection insurance at no cost.  The notifications are unrelated to cardholder data and pertain to individuals associated with a subset of the Company's U.S. merchant applicants.   

The Company believes that this incident is contained.  The Company has made substantial progress in its investigation and remediation efforts and plans to provide additional information regarding the potential financial impact, the PCI compliance process and the status of the investigation not later than its July 26, 2012 year-end earnings call. 

Paul R. Garcia, Chairman and CEO of Global Payments, said "We sincerely apologize for this incident and are working diligently to conclude our investigation.  We are committed to fully resolve any issues arising from this matter and we, of course, continue to provide uninterrupted transaction processing for our customers worldwide."

Additional information is available at www.2012infosecurityupdate.com.

Global Payments will hold a conference call for shareholders on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 6:00 PM EDT.  Callers may access the conference call via the investor relations page of the Company's website at www.globalpaymentsinc.com by clicking the "webcast" button; or callers in North America may dial 1-877-717-3042 and callers outside North America may dial 1-706-758-8809.  A pass code is not required.

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Burger King Corp. Teams with Firethorn Mobile for Mobile Payments Pilot

ATLANTA and MIAMI, June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading mobile commerce enabler Firethorn Mobile, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), and Burger King Corp., the world's second largest fast food hamburger restaurant chain, today announced the launch of the BK® Mobile Crown Card pilot program. The pilot is taking place in approximately 50 BURGER KING® restaurants in Salt Lake City, Utah and surrounding metropolitan areas.

The BK® Mobile Crown Card allows consumers to pay for their purchase by using an Android - or iOS-based phone to scan a QR tag placed on counters or drive up windows of participating BURGER KING restaurants.

"We are pleased to collaborate with BURGER KING on this new program because it frees BK restaurant customers of the burden of carrying plastic," said Rocco Fabiano, president for Firethorn Mobile. "This unique solution works on any Android or iOS phone and does not require new hardware investments in order to deliver this experience to restaurant guests. Firethorn continues to be focused on mobile commerce and the creation of solutions that enable consumers to gain greater utility from their ever-present mobile devices."

"At Burger King Corp., we are  focused on delivering an excellent restaurant experience for our guests, which includes optimizing our point of sale technology and providing quick and easy payment options," said Kelly Maddern, chief information officer, Burger King Corp. "The BK Mobile Crown Card is the perfect fit for our technology and quality-conscious consumers who lead mobile lifestyles, and we are excited about putting this functionality into their hands, getting their feedback and building from there."

The BK Mobile Crown Card application, which is aptly named BK, is powered by Firethorn Mobile payments service and can be found in the App Store(SM) and Google Play. The BK® Mobile Crown Card is a First Data Universal Commerce integrated application and leverages the payment processor's secure prepaid technology.

About BURGER KING CORPORATION

Founded in 1954, BURGER KING® is the second largest fast food hamburger chain in the world. The original HOME OF THE WHOPPER®, the BURGER KING® system operates in over 12,500 locations serving over 11 million guests daily in 82 countries and territories worldwide. Approximately 90 percent of BURGER KING® restaurants are owned and operated by independent franchisees, many of them family-owned operations that have been in business for decades. Burger King Corp. is privately-held by 3G Capital, a multi-billion dollar, global investment firm focused on long-term value creation.  For more information on 3G Capital, please go to http://3g-capital.com. To learn more about Burger King Corp., please visit the company's website atwww.bk.com or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

About Firethorn Mobile, Inc.

Firethorn Mobile, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), is an important participant in the mobile commerce ecosystem. With its mobile domain expertise, Firethorn Mobile is creating a new and innovative way for consumers to make purchases while on the go and without the need to carry cash or plastic. For more information about Firethorn Mobile, visit www.firethornmobile.com. 

Qualcomm is a registered trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated. Android is a trademark of Google Inc. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. Burger King is a registered trademark of Burger King Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Source: PR Newswire (http://s.tt/1eieV)

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Mobile Tag Aims for Global Leadership in Point-of-interest Media

Enhances marketing services with insights derived from tags being scanned in mobile transactions

NEW YORK, June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Already one of the world's leading mobile applications for scanning printed and embedded codes of all kinds, Mobile Tag is making a series of strategic moves to gain recognition as a global leader in point-of-interest media and marketing services by capitalizing on its strengths in analyzing data gathered in mobile transactions.

The moves coincide with the significant increase in usage of mobile barcode business across the globe, as recent surveys in France and the United States have demonstrated.

In France there is now an 89 percent awareness level of mobile barcodes among consumers, and a 54 percent usage rate. In the U.S., Nellymoser, Inc. reported a 228 percent increase in advertisers placing codes in magazines during the first quarter of 2012 versus the same time last year, and BizReport.com reported a 439 percentage increase in codes used in ads and editorial content from January through December 2011.

Given the steady growth in code scanning and its ties to business intelligence, Mobile Tag CEO Alexis Helcmanocki is expanding Mobile Tag's efforts that emphasize to marketers the value of the company's robust, scalable cloud-based data-analytics platform available through the company's point-of-interest media services. No stranger to data analytics, Helcmanocki is drawing upon a career-long background in collecting and analyzing data from consumer transactions with firms such as GfK Group, Ipsos and Consodata.

In the U.S., Mobile Tag draws upon a strategic marketing relationship with AT&T to deliver point-of-interest services to business customers under the AT&T Mobile Barcode Services brand. In France, where Mobile Tag owns market share of more than 80 percent among code scanners, the company is working with more than 250 leading brands, retailers and marketing agencies, with similar efforts under way in other countries worldwide.

Mobile Tag gathers essential data for marketers at the point of interest, when users of the company's award-winning app on their smartphones scan 'tags' – including UPC barcodes and QR codes – on products, posters, point-of-sale material and more to obtain unique offers, useful information or marketing messages.

"Mobile Tag is uniquely positioned to help marketers improve mobile transactions and consumer interactions because of the type and depth of data we capture and analyze after people have used their Mobile Tag app to scan tags," said Helcmanocki. Based on a study conducted in France by GfK Group in January 2012, he continued, "Now we're seeing independent research demonstrating that -- when properly deployed -- mobile bar codes have:

• A massive positive impact on the ROI of media investments, improving brand awareness by more than 24 percent
• Improved brand consideration by more than 17 percent
• Swayed brand preference by more than 9 percent, and
• Shown improvement in actual purchases by more than 10 percent.

"Such impacts are critical to marketers faced with fading ROIs across their fragmented media investments," Helcmanocki said.

The Mobile Tag app enables the company to capture all the meta-data related to a scan -- such as location, object of interest, time, and life state of the user-- so that its analytics engine can support marketers' efforts to improve the value of future interactions with users and better understand rapidly shifting market dynamics.

"Our scanning technology has been adopted widely, both in the United States through our relationship with AT&T, and in Europe," said Helcmanocki.  "While there are many code-scanning apps available, many often lack the capabilities to capture data and deliver the quality information analytics that Mobile Tag offers. The data we collect at the point of interest brings value to marketers and advertisers by providing quantitative and qualitative consumer market intelligence that truly can elevate both the brand and user experience in mobile transactions."

Helcmanocki said the transition from a focus on being a scanning-only-technology company to the new emphasis on point-of-interest media and marketing involves constantly re-evaluating the skill sets essential to Mobile Tag's success, including the capabilities of employees the company needs to hire and those already onboard.

The company recently recruited Fernando Saturno as Mobile Tag's Product Director and Chief Marketing Officer. A veteran marketing strategist and technologist in the U.S. and Europe with Yahoo!, Yell Group, AOL Europe and a succession of startups, Saturno has extensive international management experience in corporations and startups.

Saturno's strengths include product life-cycle management of web and mobile products; building, managing and motivating multinational teams in the U.S., Europe and Latin America; extensive knowledge of online revenue models, and business development.  His duties at Mobile Tag include directing the company's product and marketing efforts and a 50-strong development team to extend the company's leadership in point-of-interest media services.

Helcmanocki said Mobile Tag is currently recruiting for other key positions in the U.S. and Europe to support its growth.

Mobile Tag gained prominence with a universal reader that scans all three global standard codes – UPC, QR or Datamatrix.  Available for iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Windows Phone 7 devices, the app comes preloaded on certain devices and is available free to end users.

About Mobile TagMobile Tag connects brands with people when it matters the most – at the point-of-interest.  Using the Mobile Tag smartphone app, users simply scan 'tags' (barcodes, NFC chips, etc.) on products, posters, POS material, etc. to instantly receive marketing messages, useful information or unique offers.  Combining the latest advances in mobile tagging and data analytics with its extensive database of tag data and user information, Mobile Tag's point-of-interest platform provides brands with unsurpassed ability to understand and engage with consumers worldwide.  Mobile Tag sells both directly and through strategic marketing partners who deliver point-of-interest services to their business customers. Selected from hundreds of companies, Mobile Tag has been named a Red Herring Europe Top 100 winner for 2012, recognized for their technological innovation.

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SmartMetric Announces Development of Advanced Secure Credit Card With Memory and Processing Power That Rivals Today's Tablets & Smartphones

SOURCE: SmartMetric, Inc.

June 13, 2012 09:35 ET

BAY HARBOR ISLANDS, FL--(Marketwire - Jun 13, 2012) - SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCBB: SMME), developer of "Secured by Biometrics" Credit and Identity Cards, announced today SmartMetric has successfully developed and incorporated into its breakthrough fingerprint activated credit card sized card, memory capacity that rivals todays tablets and the latest generation Smartphones.

Speaking from the Company's newly established manufacturing center in Buenos Aires, Argentina SmartMetric's President & CEO, Ms. Chaya Hendrick stated: "We are very excited with the level of miniaturization we have successfully achieved inserting high density memory capacity inside our credit card sized Smart Card device. SmartMetric will now be able to introduce to the market a variety of cutting edge card-based solutions covering a myriad of industries from banking to medical health records. With a minimum of 64GB of internal memory the SmartMetric "Chip & Swipe"™ fingerprint activated card stands to revolutionize whole market segments around the World for the Company.

For more information, please visit SmartMetric's corporate site at www.smartmetric.com.

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Paychex Infographic: Mobile Apps Are Revolutionizing America’s Small Businesses

June 13, 2012 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time 

New infographic examines how small businesses use mobile technology to save time and increase productivity

ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Paychex, Inc., a leading provider of payroll, human resource, and benefits outsourcingsolutions for small- to medium-sized businesses, today released an infographic on the use of mobile technology by small businesses. The infographic focuses on how this technology helps small business owners by allowing them to save time and boost productivity.

Paychex released the infographic as it celebrates the launch of its new Paychex Mobile smartphone application for iPhone^®, Android™, and BlackBerry^®.“Small business owners and entrepreneurs are constantly facing new demands on their time and are increasingly turning to mobile technology to better manage it,” said Paychex President and CEO Martin Mucci. “In fact, as our new infographic illustrates, 50 percent of small businesses who use mobile technology say they couldn’t survive without it.”

The new Paychex infographic is available for download and embedding at blog.buildmybiz.com/infographic-small-business-mobile-technology.

BuildMyBiz Mobile Resources

In conjunction with the launch of its new smartphone app, and in support of the growing number of small business owners using mobile technology to manage their businesses, Paychex is also promoting a host of new mobility resources on its website dedicated to small business owners and entrepreneurs, www.BuildMyBiz.com. In addition to the infographic, there will be a series of new articles, podcasts, and blog posts available on BuildMyBiz starting today and continuing through the next several weeks, touching on various aspects of mobility, from the value of mobile payment systems to mobile technology and payroll processing.

Paychex Mobile App

The new Paychex Mobile smartphone app provides Paychex clients powerful tools for instant management and increased productivity, while offering their employees on-the-go access to personal payroll, benefits, and retirement information. The Paychex Mobile smartphone application is available for download, at no cost, for iPhone from the Apple^® App Store, for Android from Google Play, and for BlackBerry from BlackBerry App World™.

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U.S. Cellular Selects Gemalto for LTE Deployment

June 13, 2012 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time 

Gemalto Selected by U.S. Cellular for LTE Deployment

AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News:

“The changing wireless ecosystem is paving the way for incredible opportunities ahead for mobile network providers like U.S. Cellular”

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announces its selection by U.S. Cellular, a leading mobile operator serving six million customers in 26 states, for its fourth generation Long Term Evolution (LTE) service launch. Gemalto will provide its LinqUs Advanced Connectivity solution. The solution, building on Gemalto’s LinqUs Advanced OTA platform and utilizing the high-end UpTeq LTE subscriber module, will enable U.S. Cellular to authenticate subscribers to the LTE and CDMA networks and manage its secure access to 4G services with industry-leading efficiency.

The LinqUs Advanced OTA platform enables U.S. Cellular to instantly activate subscriptions and manage access to personalized services over IP-based LTE mobile networks. The UpTeq LTE is embedded with Gemalto’s unique secure polling software that enables automatic update. This helps ensure 100% success rate for the download and activation of mission critical applications including M2M subscriptions, large NFC payment applications and the credentials for streaming video content over LTE networks. Thanks to the Gemalto “Always Connected” technology, the UpTeq LTE triggers its own update in order to ensure a maximal success rate and a unique end-user experience.

“Gemalto’s solution will help our customers maintain the faster connections to the people, information and entertainment that enhance and simplify their lives,” said Michael S. Irizarry, executive vice president chief technology officer, engineering and information services at U.S. Cellular. “Gemalto’s proven expertise and market understanding will help provide our customers with a dependable and reliable 4G LTE experience.”

“The changing wireless ecosystem is paving the way for incredible opportunities ahead for mobile network providers like U.S. Cellular,” said Sébastien Cano, senior vice president of Telecommunications at Gemalto North America. “Gemalto has award-winning expertise in the LTE space and is committed to supporting U.S. Cellular to reinforce its cutting edge innovation, network enhancement and unmatched customer service.”

For more information about U.S. Cellular, visit www.uscellular.com. For more information about Gemalto’s wireless telecommunication solutions, visit www.gemalto.com/telecom.

Editor’s note: OTA stands for Over-the-Air, referring to the remote management services for wirelessly connected devices.

About U.S. Cellular
U.S. Cellular rewards its customers with unmatched benefits and industry-leading innovations designed to elevate the customer experience. The Chicago-based carrier has a strong line-up of cutting-edge devices that are all backed by its high-speed nationwide network that has the highest call quality of any national carrier. Currently, 25 percent of customers have access to 4G LTE speeds and 54 percent will have access by the end of 2012. U.S. Cellular was named a J.D. Power and Associates Customer Service Champion in 2012 for the second year in a row. To learn more about U.S. Cellular, visit one of its retail stores or uscellular.com. To get the latest news, promos and videos, connect with U.S. Cellular on Facebook.com/uscellular, Twitter.com/uscellular and YouTube.com/uscellularcorp.

About Gemalto
Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO) is the world leader in digital security with 2011 annual revenues of €2 billion and more than 10,000 employees operating out of 74 offices and 14 Research & Development centers in 43 countries.
We are at the heart of our rapidly evolving digital society. Billions of people worldwide increasingly want the freedom to communicate, travel, shop, bank, entertain and work – anytime, everywhere – in ways that are convenient, enjoyable and secure. Gemalto delivers on their expanding needs for personal mobile services, payment security, identity protection, authenticated online services, cloud computing access, eHealthcare and eGovernment services, modern transportation solutions, M2M communication,.
Gemalto develops secure software that runs on trusted devices which we design and personalize. We manage these devices, the confidential data they contain and the services they enable, throughout their life cycle. We innovate so that our clients can offer more ways of enhancing the convenience and security of their end-users’ digital lives.
Gemalto is thriving with the growing number of people using its software and secure devices to interact in the digital and wireless world.
For more information visit www.gemalto.com, www.justaskgemalto.com, blog.gemalto.com, or follow @gemalto on Twitter.

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