Komercní banka, Citibank Europe, Globus CR, Visa Europe and Telefónica Czech Republic have launched a mobile contactless payments pilot at several Globus hypermarkets in Cakovice, Prague.

According to Komercní, the new technology allows customers to load payment cards onto a Visa payWave-enabled SIM card stored in their mobile phone, thus enabling contactless payments at the point of sale. 

CorFire, the mobile commerce business of SK C&C USA, has announced the release of three new products for the mobile payments market, CorTrust, CorPay and Cor360.

Designed to enable businesses to deploy a wide array of mobile commerce applications, the three solutions leverage NFC technology as well as bridge technology for non-NFC based transactions, according to CorFire. 

SMARTRAC has announced that it is now supplying a complete collection of NFC transponders, including inlays for labels, tickets, cards and complete tags.

As one of the world’s major suppliers of RFID transponders, the company says it is “well prepared” to support its global customer base in tapping the potential of NFC technology. According to SAMRTRAC, the NFC devices can be used in a variety of application fields such as access control, mobile devices, public transport and contactless payment.  

Proxama has announced the release of a new NFC poster campaign to support the launch of the latest season of VH-1’s ‘Basketball Wives.’

Fans of the show will be able to tap their NFC-enabled phones against the posters to instantly receive an exclusive trailer for the new season as well as a link to the show’s Facebook page.

The posters, which are each equipped with NFC chips containing the media content, will be introduced at bus stops around New York and Los Angeles.

Developed alongsie Nokia, Hyperspace, CBS Outdoor, JCDecaux and Cemusa, the campaign iis being run to illustrate to the advertising and business communities, as well as consumers, the benefits that NFC ‘hyper-local’ marketing offers them, according to Proxama.

This new deployment follows Proxama’s recent introduction an NFC outdoor marketing campaign for the new X-Men movie in London - the first of its kind in the UK.  

Isis, the national mobile commerce joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, has announced the addition of Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express to its mobile commerce platform.

According to Isis, the move makes it the first mobile commerce platform with full support of all four national payment networks. This will allow merchants and consumers greater ubiquity and freedom of choice when it comes to payment network acceptance. 

LG Electronics has announced the addition of two new Android-based Optimus Series smart phones, the LG Optimus Pro and the LG Optimus Net.

According to LG, both phones will run on the latest NFC-enabled Android 2.3 platform, ‘Gingerbread.’ However, only some of the phones launched in Europe will be NFC capable for mobile payments, depending on the carrier. 

Collis has announced the successful completion of the GlobalPlatform TestFest process for its new UICC (SIM) Compliance Test Suite.

According to Collis, the company’s GlobalPlatform UICC Compliance Test Suite can now be used by test labs to determine whether a UICC smart card aligns with the GlobalPlatform Card Specification v2.2 UICC Configuration.

Collis says that a UICC’s compliance to GlobalPlatform is essential to achieve a uniform infrastructure, allowing third parties to load secure applications onto that UICC.