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Motorola to launch NFC-enabled parental control service in India

Monday, July 19, 2010

Motorola is working with Tata Docomo and Airtel to launch its parental control service, or iSIM (intelligent SIM) in India, according to telecomyatra.afaqs.com.

iSIM, which has already been launched in Europe, Middle East and Africa with the help of Bipper Communication, is an NFC-enabled Web service that enables parents to manage their children’s use of mobile phones.


With iSIM, parents can log on to a secure Web portal to see who their children are talking to, when, and for how long, as well as manage their childrens’ approved number list. They need only attach an NFC flexible wafer to the phone’s original SIM card to begin monitoring the caller’s activity.

The iSIM platform also enables a phone to support up to four IMSI (international mobile subscriber identity) profiles or phone numbers on a single SIM card from multiple operators.

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Visa is teaming with Turkey’s Akbank and vendor DeviceFidelity to launch a new microSD-based contactless mobile payment system.

Akbank customers will be able to insert DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay microSD into their handsets’ memory card slots, turning them into contactless payments devices that can be used with Visa payWave terminals.

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AT&T and Verizon will launch trials of their new contactless payment system - codenamed Mercury - at markets in Minneapolis, Atlanta, Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas according to fiercemobilecontent.com.

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The United Arab Emirates is experiencing a delay in its commercial launch of NFC mobile payment due to a lack of phones, readers and SIM cards, according to Emirates Business 24/7.

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Motorola is looking for mobile operators in India to trial its new iSIM (intelligent SIM) solution, says Telecom Yatra.

The iSIM is a flexible 0.4mm thick device that attaches to a phone’s existing SIM card to turn the phone into an NFC-enabled payment tool.

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MasterCard’s stock dropped 3.6% on the recent announcement Verizon and AT&T are partnering with Discover and Barclays to launch mobile contactless payment services, but the company says it has its own ventures in diversified payments.

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Apple has hired NFC expert Benjamin Vigier as its new product manager for mobile commerce, suggesting that the next gen iPhone may feature mobile wallet capabilities, according to Computerworld.

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