MasterCard and Commonwealth Bank have announced the launch of a QkR, a new mobile app that enables movie theater goers to browse and purchase refreshments from their seats.

The app (pronounced “quicker”) is now being piloted at Australian cinema chain Hoyts at multiple La Premiere theaters around Sydney. Each La Premiere seat armrest contains an NFC tag and sticker showing a QR code, giving patrons three different ways to turn their cinema seat into a point of sale. A quick scan, tap or type on their Android or iPhone smart phone places your order, which is hand delivered to your seat by La Premiere staff. 

Sequent Software, a California-based provider of mobile NFC software, announced the launch of Core Card Services (CCS), a solution designed to enable any mobile app to seamlessly integrate NFC payments, ticketing, coupons, ID badge access and more.

According to Sequent, CCS consists of on-device middleware and support services that “unlock NFC innovation” for app developers, enabling them to incorporate NFC into existing apps such as mobile banking, loyalty, transit or ticketing. 

Visa made waves in August when it unveiled a road map to move the U.S. to EMV and then again in January when the company said that the country’s deployment wouldn’t be chip and PIN. Stephanie Ericksen, head of Authentication Product Integration at Visa USA, talks to Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan about the move and why the U.S. will have a different solution than what other typically associate with EMV. “One thing that we’re trying to clarify is there are many countries around the world that have adopted EMV chip technology, but it’s not chip and PIN,” Ericksen says.

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Pittsburgh-based design studio Deeplocal has developed an NFC-enabled belt that lets the wearer “like” things on Facebook much in the same way that a dog “likes” your leg.

No, this isn’t something out of The Onion. According to Wired, those who don the LikeBelt can interact with NFC chips in the real world by giving them a not-so-discreet hip thrust. The belt, which contains an NFC antenna in the buckle, reads the NFC tag and automatically connects to the wearer’s Facebook profile to “like” the corresponding item. 

CARTES in North America, a new annual card manufacturing, payment, identification and digital security expo and conference, has placed mobile payments at the center of its agenda of this year’s inaugural event.

Held March 5-7, 2012 in Las Vegas, CARTES will focus on determining what combination of technology convergence, business partnerships and consumer acceptance points will drive the widespread adoption of global mobile payments. 

XING has announced that the newest version of its Android mobile app now contains support for NFC.

XING’s 11 million members can now exchange contact information wirelessly through a new feature called “XING Beam.” According to XING, the feature is activated when two XING members call up their profile on their NFC-enabled Android device and then hold the two devices next to each other. 

Several major wine producers are now using an NFC solution from eProvenance to monitor the temperature of their wine during shipment and storage, according to Point of Sale News.

The eProvenance solution uses NFC sensors from Near Field Solutions, which are embedded into wine casks to keep a record of temperatures, origin, history and other authenticity information. These sensors can be read with a handheld scanner or smart phone to ensure the quality of wine is maintained from the shipping pallet to the store shelf.