NFC : What is it and what is not?

Since NFC related news are all around the blogosphere, (and partly in mainstream media) I would like to make some clearance on the subject.

First; what is NFC? NFC simply stands for Near Field Communications. It is a set of standards for…

iCarte : contactless payment for iPhone

There’s been a lot of rumors around iPhone’s new release, iPhone 4 that it would come with an NFC chip but unfortunately it didn’t. It’d be a huge step for the contactless space -could also be a huge step for a proprietary system fully controlled by Apple, now…

Visa and MasterCard in the mobile space

We are clearly in the smart cards era. From set top boxes to access control systems, passports to -of course- payment systems run on these little security tokens. There are thousands of smart cards applications running on smart cards worldwide ranging in these…