Topic “Internet of Things”

After False Start, NXP Adds Wearables as Target for Embedded Chip Loader Service

Published: Nov 6 2015

NFC Times Exclusive Insight – NXP Semiconductors will take another crack at rolling out its “loader service,” which seeks to make it easier for service providers to load payment and other applications on the chip maker’s embedded secure elements by managing keys on the chip.

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Broadcom Says Little About NFC in Q1 Earnings Call

Published: Apr 22 2015
Apr 23 2015

NFC Times Exclusive Insight – U.S.-based Broadcom reported continued growth for its connectivity segment during its first quarter 2015 earnings call, but made almost no mention of NFC.

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Identiv Plays Up IoT Tag Business, but Losses Continued in 2014

Published: Mar 18 2015

Identiv CEO Jason Hart sounded optimistic tones about the company’s NFC tag business, particularly in “Internet of Things” applications or tags for consumer goods, during a conference call last week to discuss Identiv’s fourth quarter and full year 2014 earnings, but investors responded with less optimism.

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Broadcom Shows Strong Interest in IoT and Wearables; Still Sees NFC as an Opportunity

Published: Feb 3 2015

NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Broadcom made only passing reference to NFC during a conference call Thursday to discuss the company’s fourth quarter and full-year earnings, although CEO Scott McGregor listed NFC as one of the technologies expected to help lead to growth in the company’s high-end connectivity business.

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TI’s NFC Sensor Transponder Latest Product to Target Wearables, IoT Markets

Published: Dec 18 2014
Dec 20 2014

U.S-based Texas Instruments said it expects to see prototype launches of devices using its recently launched NFC sensor transponder in the first quarter of 2015, as the U.S.-based chip maker seeks a larger stake in the promising markets for wearables, Internet of Things and industrial applications that sometimes require an NFC interface.

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Taiwan Regulators Express Doubts about Use of BLE for Top Transit E-Purse; Apple Rejects Purse for Wallet

Published: Sep 13 2017

NFC TIMES Exclusive – TAIPEI, Taiwan: EasyCard Corp., which runs the largest closed-loop transit and retail payments service in Taiwan, is seeking to become the first major transit fare-collection system globally to roll out Bluetooth-based mobile ticketing. But Taiwan’s strict financial regulator still has doubts about the security of the technology.

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MediaTek Using NFC Technology from STMicroelectronics, Though Extent of Deal Not Disclosed

Published: Sep 7 2017

NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight ­– In what may be a response to the proposed tie-up between Qualcomm and NXP Semiconductors, STMicroelectronics has announced that it is “cooperating” with Taiwan-based MediaTek, the No. 2 supplier of processor chips for smartphones, to integrate its NFC technology into MediaTek reference designs.

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Singapore Latest Country Pushing National QR Code Specification

Published: Sep 1 2017

NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Singapore is the latest country developing a national specification for QR code-based payments, seeking to reduce fragmentation of various QR code-based schemes.

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Another Wearables Maker Enters ‘Pays’ Market with NFC-Enabled Device

Published: Aug 31 2017

NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – U.S.-based device maker Garmin is the latest company to introduce an NFC-based mobile payments service in a smartwatch, today unveiling its “Garmin Pay” service for its forthcoming vívoactive 3 watch.

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Struggling Fitness Band Maker Fitbit Announces Plans for NFC Payments Service with New Smartwatch

Published: Aug 28 2017

NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Struggling U.S.-based fitness band maker Fitbit announced today it will introduce an NFC-based payments service, “Fitbit Pay,” after it launches its first-ever smartwatch, the Ionic, promising to enable major issuers in more than 10 markets globally to offer contactless payments supporting the Visa, Mastercard and American Express brands.

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Visa Ready Program May Not be Quite Ready for Tokenization Partners

Published: Aug 24 2017
Sep 15 2017

NFC TIMES Exclusive – The Visa Ready program, Visa’s effort to get new digital payments services to the market sooner by giving vendors a fast-track route for their products and technologies to be certified, may not be quite ready–at least as far as Visa’s tokenization partner program is concerned. 

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NFC Transit Ticketing Rolled Out–Likely with HCE–on Beijing Subway System Following Large Pilot

Published: Aug 15 2017

NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – The Beijing Subway and Beijing’s public transport payments company Yikatong Monday launched what appears to be an HCE-enabled mobile payments system on the entire metro system after piloting the service earlier this summer on one line.

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Wal-Mart Starts to Expand ‘Scan & Go’ App; Experience Does Not Seek to Mimic Amazon Go Concept

Published: Aug 14 2017

NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Wal-Mart Stores has introduced a “Scan & Go” mobile-shopping and payments app for a limited number of its regular stores in five U.S. states, and said it plans to roll out the service more widely. It follows the launch last year of a very similar app for its warehouse store chain, Sam’s Club, as NFC Times has reported.

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Alipay to Expand Acceptance of Mobile Wallet in Russia

Published: Aug 10 2017

NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Alipay is expanding acceptance in another overseas market, Russia, seeking to capture business from Chinese tourists who travel to the country.

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Parties Could Settle Lawsuits Stemming from Dispute over Apple Value-Added Services Software

Published: Aug 9 2017

NFC TIMES Exclusive –  Software that enables consumers to tap to pay and earn or redeem rewards and other value-added services with Apple Pay is at the center of a legal dispute between Israel-based NFC and contactless reader vendor On Track Innovations and USA Technologies, a provider of payment technology for vending machines and other self-service retail locations.

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Apple Discloses Plans for Four More Apple Pay Markets; Confirms Most Transactions Outside of U.S.

Published: Aug 2 2017

NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Apple Tuesday disclosed plans to launch its mobile payments service in four more small markets, including three countries in the Nordics, with the tech giant seeing higher usage of Apple Pay outside of the U.S., where NFC-enabled POS terminals are still not widely available.

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Major Networks Seek to Capture–and Protect–Transactions by Introducing Global QR Code Specifications

Published: Aug 2 2017

NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Major payments networks, including Visa, Mastercard and China UnionPay, have released global specifications for QR code-based payments through their EMVCo joint venture because they see an opportunity to capture more transactions–and also a risk of losing transactions if they don’t support the technology globally.

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