Tag: Samsung

What can you do with NFC?

Take a minute and cast your mind back to science fiction films of the 80s and 90s – Terminator or Demolition Man perhaps. People could use biometrics to gain access to computers, scan others’ minds to see what they were thinking, and so on. Based on these futuristic predictions, who would have thought, in the […]

IoT

CES 2013: Electric dreams or neon nightmare? Will what happens…

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show has been a frenzy of cutting-edge innovation and novelty genius. But which kit, if any, will take off in 2013? Last year I blogged from CES 2012 about the importance of security keeping up with innovation. I referred to Intel’s Identity Protection Technology (IPT) and Anti-Theft (AT) technology as part […]

The Technology behind the Contactless Challenge

If you read my recent blog post about our forthcoming Contactless Challenge, you may wish to know more about the technology behind the payments that Ewan MacLeod and Jon Choo will be making in and around London in the coming weeks. I’ll admit, inspired by the latest James Bond film, I may have been a […]

NFC payments become available to millions of new users

This week we announced that we would be providing and operating the global Trusted Service Management (TSM) platform and NFC services for Vodafone Group, one of the world’s largest mobile communications service providers. Secure and convenient ‘wave and pay’ contactless transactions are going to become more and more common as handsets flow into the market […]

CES 2012: ARM, home networking and the cloud

While mobility and wireless technology have dominated CES for years, one of the more interesting things to note this year is how ARM processors have worked their way into almost every mobile device. TechCruch’s Devin Coldewey took note of this in his article on the winners and losers at CES 2012, stating: “..smart TVs, tablets, […]