Dear Readers,
Well, the Samsung Galaxy S4 is finally 'unpacked'. After a highly produced, broadway style ceremony, the phone was introduced to a worldwide audience. However, what we were really after was the chance to finally see what Samsung and Visa had cooked up together ever since their announcement at MWC last month concerning their global alliance on mobile payments http://wp.me/1Jrjn.
During the performance or 'unpacking', Samsung informed its audience that additional payment applications would be preloaded in the next few months in the Galaxy S4. According to the agreement, financial institutions that are planning to launch mobile payment programs will be able to use the Visa Mobile Provisioning Service to securely download payment account information to NFC-enabled Samsung devices. In addition, Samsung has agreed to load the Visa payWave applet onto its mobile devices featuring NFC technology. Visa payWave is Visa’s mobile payment applet that enables consumers to make “wave and pay” contactless payments using mobile devices. The deal with Visa is nonexclusive, and Samsung said Thursday that “more payment applets from multiple brands are planned to be preloaded into the embedded secure element in coming months.” Looks like some companies are betting heavily on the Galaxy S4.
Other payment options are also incorporated within the Galaxy S4. Leaving absolutely nothing to chance, as well as NFC, light based communication (LBC) technology is also incorporated within the device. This incorporation opens up the payment and loyalty industry to companies such as mobeam (whose technology based on LBC is also embedded within the phone). With mobeam’s technology, the Galaxy S4 can beam traditional 1-D barcode data to any laser scanner with no new equipment, such as optical scanners or backend systems, required by the retailer http://wp.me/p1Jrjn-1y3. As Samsung noted during this year’s Mobile World Congress, retailers prefer barcodes because they don’t have to install any new infrastructure to support them http://bit.ly/V8scQQ. It will be interesting to see how LBC stacks up against NFC in terms of user adoption.
Oh, and instead of the more staid, corporate video explaining mobeam's offering - they decided to film a musical instead. I kid you not. Watch it here.
Another thing that was interesting to read last week, was the news that Weve has selected The Logic Group as one of its first technology providers to help design and build its loyalty and coupon pilot. For those of you who have been living on the moon for the past six months, Weve is a joint venture between the UK’s three largest mobile network operators (MNOs) – EE, Telefonica UK (O2) and Vodafone UK – delivering a secure, highly integrated m-commerce platform based around mobile marketing and wallet services for businesses http://wp.me/p1Jrjn-ZU.
The Logic Group and Weve technology collaboration will see the company designing and building the required central database infrastructure to support Weve’s first loyalty pilot delivered via a wallet later this year. The customer behaviour insight generated through this pilot will help guide the future development and direction of Weve’s planned loyalty service. In addition, The Logic Group are also assisting Weve with business development activities around its loyalty services and are providing consultancy around the merchant EPoS environment http://wp.me/p1Jrjn-1xl.
In further Logic Group news, they are with Proxama to create a complete NFC-based services offering for its retail clients. According to Proxama, The Logic Group is keen to commence the distribution of vouchers and coupons via NFC-enabled in-store smart posters. Proxama has been chosen to be its NFC partner. It will provide the NFC technology and platform to enable fully branded incentives to be delivered to consumers’ mobile devices following a simple tap on an NFC tag embedded in a poster. These incentives are then redeemed at an NFC-enabled terminal during the checkout process. Subsequently, offers will be provided over the air into NFC enabled retailer apps.
Speaking of retail, don't forget that this year at the Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference, instead of the usual collection of demos, we will be hosting the NFC Interactive Lounge. In this area, you will be able to find the likes of Samsung, Infineon, VeriFone, Ingenico, Giesecke & Devrient and NXP. We will be filming and highlighting the lounge on the various news outlets of Contactless Intelligence so if you are interested in taking space in the Lounge, please get in touch. we think it is going to look great!
And finally, talking about things that are new: we are announcing a new category in the CMAs this year. In what we think will be a bit of fun(!), we are opening a category called the INDUSTRY CHOICE Award. It is open to all category finalists and the rules are very simple. You get as many people to go to the Award page on our site and vote. It doesn't matter who they are, you, your colleges, your boss, even your mother! The winner will simply be the company who gets the greatest number of people to vote for them. Voting will start on the 8th April and end at midnight on the 19th April. The only thing to remember is one person - one vote. Unless, you are smart enough to mask your IP address that is! Forget I said that...
Until next week,
Regards,
Steve Atkins
Contactless Intelligence
This week on C-ITV
PKO Bank Polski launches IKO - 'mobile payment service to cover all payment situations' http://wp.me/p1Jrjn-1yB
VIDEO: mobeam. The musical. Really. http://wp.me/p1Jrjn-1y7
Samsung Galaxy S4 – mobeam makes barcodes relevant again http://wp.me/p1Jrjn-1y3
INSIDE Secure reinvents the NFC tag http://wp.me/p1Jrjn-1xX
Invengo Technology Corp. Launches New NFC Product Line http://wp.me/p1Jrjn-1xR
The Logic Group announces loyalty and coupon pilot with Weve http://wp.me/p1Jrjn-1xl
SMARTRAC shows NFC at MWC 2013 http://wp.me/p1Jrjn-1x7
iPhone voice encryption from KoolSpan and DeviceFidelity http://wp.me/p1Jrjn-1x1
Adspace Digital Mall Network, Blue Bite, bring interactive NFC to 140 US Malls http://wp.me/p1Jrjn-1wP
Payments & m-Commerce
Samsung to Support Multiple Payment Brands on New Galaxy S4 http://bit.ly/Z9qNZB
GoPago Sees History Repeating With mPayments Revolution http://bit.ly/14MwI7r
Mobile payments are like unicorns... The tangled future of mobile payments. http://bit.ly/14Mt0L8
PayPal revamps developer program with new iOS SDK, retooled APIs http://bit.ly/14Msixu
Is PayPal Apple’s solution to mobile payments? http://bit.ly/14Ms8WM
Italian Payments Processor Seeks to Launch Independent TSM ‘Hub’ http://bit.ly/14Ms75r
Dutch retailers get cashless 'thank you http://bit.ly/14Mx12a
Adelante and Anderson Zaks team up on mobile payments http://bit.ly/14MwQnJ
FTC urges transparent, secure mobile payment systems http://reut.rs/14MwNIh
Banks have a new competitor — it’s in your pocket http://bit.ly/X26VVR
Paylife rolls out contactless payments for Austrian bakery http://bit.ly/X2auer
New Report: Mobile and Alternative Payments in Canada http://bit.ly/X278rV
NAB blows Kiss to mobile payments competitors http://bit.ly/Yaj4Is
MTN revisits mobile money space http://bit.ly/YajO03
The Mobile Wallets Race: Placing Multiple Bets http://bit.ly/YajMp3
Samsung launches NFC m-payments pilot in Zaragoza http://bit.ly/YakhPS
Telcos losing mind-share in mobile wallet race http://bit.ly/ZBYq3T
Natwest and RBS launch mobile payment app http://bit.ly/Wp7prN
PayPal Acquires Mobile App Development Studio Duff Research To Work On Its Mobile And Digital Wallet http://tcrn.ch/ZBYGQC
76 per cent of UK smartphone users haven't made a mobile payment http://bit.ly/ZBYKQa
Mobile payments from Western Union make it easier to pay the bills http://bit.ly/Z9rjqr
NFC & Mobile
Apple iPhone 5S to feature NFC, fingerprint recognition technology? http://bit.ly/ZF8gDB
More NFC applications needed to drive mobile wallet revolution http://bit.ly/X271MZ
Wolfsoniana Museum adds NFC tags to exhibits http://bit.ly/YakaUu
SuperBeam pairs NFC and WiFi http://bit.ly/Yak7bd
EMT pushes NFC in Estonia http://bit.ly/Yak67j
Pokemon Rumble U' to support NFC with a new toy line http://bit.ly/ZBYeBS
A smart move with NFC http://bit.ly/ZBYOiS
NFC Devices, Strategies, and Form Factors: Update and Roadmap: ABI Report http://bit.ly/Z9qWMH
Transportation, Ticketing, Access, Security & Loyalty
IATA to report on NFC for airlines http://bit.ly/YajuhT
Certified Payment Processing Adds Mobile to Proxima Product Line http://bit.ly/Yakgvx
Samsung promotes Galaxy Note II with NFC campaign http://bit.ly/YakcM8
ABI report: Transportation Ticketing Standards – CiPurse, MiFare, Calypso & FeliCa http://bit.ly/Z9qHRM
PayPal launches iPad point-of-sale device http://bit.ly/Z9qCxs
10,000 NFC ad panels go live across the UK http://bit.ly/Z9mddN
Smart Card Alliance Continues Webinar Series on Mobile and NFC Security with 'Secure Elements 101' http://bit.ly/Z9qRss
Other News & Opinion Articles
Finalists: 2013 Contactless & Mobile Awards http://bit.ly/Z9rrXb
Identive Selected as Contactless & Mobile Awards Finalist http://bit.ly/Z9rnXe
Intuit launches UK chip and PIN mobile card reader http://bit.ly/ZBYTTY
WINCOR NIXDORF: Connecting the mobile money ecosystem and the cash world http://bit.ly/ZBYRLB
QR codes scanning apps present on 32 percent of German smartphones http://bit.ly/ZBYPmW
Midcounties Co-operative Upgrades to Contactless and Point-to-Point Encryption with TNSPay http://bit.ly/Yan37L
Students Develop Secure New Procedure for Online Banking http://bit.ly/YakqD7
1 in 4 Tablet Users to Pay Bills via Their Devices by 2017, Juniper Report Finds http://bit.ly/YakbYB
Estonian Based Mobile Payments Company Fortumo Raises $10
Million From Intel Capital And Greycroft http://bit.ly/14MwKfM
WalletBit Founders Come Out With New and Improved Platform BIPS http://bit.ly/14Mx1PT
Retailer sues Visa over data breach penalties http://bit.ly/Yaj3nO
Mobile Money: A Technology Game-Changer for Tackling Global Poverty? http://bit.ly/YajheO
Layar introduces update to augmented reality application http://bit.ly/Yaj9fh
Mobile Wallet Market - Global Forecast, Market Share, Size, Growth and Industry Analysis, 2012 - 2018 http://bit.ly/ZBYEYW
UGANDA: Mobile money deals hit Shs11 trillion in four years http://bit.ly/ZBYy3m
Global mobile money adoption will be slow process http://zd.net/Z9qMF6
Redefining easy money http://bit.ly/15ssq7r
Asian SESAMES Awards Launches New Categories
http://bit.ly/15sskg6
CARTES Asia: Payment processing gets sexy http://bit.ly/15ssm7V
Consumers yet to trust mobile banking, alternative payments - report http://bit.ly/YFK6bR
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