Posted on 12 July 2012 by
You always see us say on this blog that EMV chip technology is more secure than magnetic stripe, and prevents payment fraud and use of counterfeit cards. Well we don’t just say it – the stats confirm it. Since the UK has implemented EMV, fraud has dropped steadily every year, and many other countries have […]
Posted on 12 June 2012 by
The internet will only get bigger and better. Or, that’s an impression you get from reading some of the reports compiled by the likes of Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey and any of the organizations looking at the impact of the Internet on our future economies. These reports are looking at the future of our economies, […]
Posted on 23 May 2012 by
Yesterday was the first day of the NFC Solutions Summit 2012 in San Francisco, and we heard from executives at MasterCard, Sony, and Intel about their plans for NFC. One of the questions everyone was trying to answer is: “how will we get consumers to use it?” A great question, because as we all know, […]
Posted on 08 May 2012 by
This week, we’re at CTIA Wireless 2012, showcasing some of our NFC solutions (booth #3432 – stop on by!) and seeing what’s new from our colleagues. Pre-conference on Monday, we stopped by the MasterCard event to get their latest news. Sure enough, it was a big announcement: MasterCard introduced PayPass Wallet Services. It’s likely you […]
Posted on 27 February 2012 by
Mobile World Congress 2012 in all its glory is in full swing here in Barcelona and we have already been very busy at Gemalto, announcing UpTeq NFC, our smart SIM chip for mobile payments, as well as TSM solutions which we will be supplying to financial services company Chase. Bloomberg this morning covered the news […]
Posted on 17 February 2012 by
Last week, the Gemalto team headed out to Salt Lake City, Utah for the 2012 Smart Card Alliance Payments Summit. The three-day event lived up to its name, covering all things payments such as EMV chip card payments, mobile payments and wallets, NFC, and open transit payments. The hot topic of the event? EMV’s impending […]
