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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 

 


SMARTRAC shows NFC at MWC 2013


Tanja Möhler – VP & Head of Corporate Communications and Marketing at SMARTRAC takes Contactless Intelligence through the NFC solutions they demonstrated on their booth at this year’s Mobile World Congress 2013 and presents the industry’s first NFC-empowered book at the show together with mobile innovation expert and author Patrick Meyer.

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The Logic Group announces loyalty and coupon pilot with Weve 

 

European customer interactions specialist, The Logic Group has been selected by Weve as one of its first technology providers to help design and build its loyalty and coupon pilot. 

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.

David Sear, CEO of Weve, said: “Part of our vision at Weve is to transform how the consumer can use loyalty on their mobile for their best advantage.  That means having access to the cards they want to use at hand when they want to use them and understanding the benefits at that moment that using that particular loyalty programme can deliver.  From a business perspective, a better understanding of how loyalty can improve and impact their engagement with their customers, based upon accurate and consistent insight into customer behaviour is imperative. A strong partner ecosystem is crucial to our success – including companies like The Logic Group who can support and partner with us in delivering our ambitions in the loyalty and coupon space.”

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.

Gareth Wokes, Chairman and CEO at The Logic Group, said: “Weve has the potential to be significant and transformative for the British industry and consumers alike.  The Logic Group is delighted to be able to participate in this venture as a technology contributor for managing the secure delivery of loyalty and couponing in Weve’s m-commerce platform.”

In further Logic Group news, Proxama is partnering with The Logic Group 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.

The partnership includes the deployment of Proxama’s unique TapPoint campaign management platform that will make it possible for retailers to create their own campaigns and collect valuable ‘real-time’ analytics on the effectiveness of each individual campaign.

Jon Worley, Director of Customer Interactions at The Logic Group, commented, “Retailers are looking to engage with the ‘always on’ mobile consumer throughout their buying journey and NFC technologies enable that engagement in-store. By working with Proxama, we are able to give our clients the capability to innovate and provide a superior buying experience for their customers.”

Proxama has already delivered a number of successful NFC consumer marketing campaigns for brands such as BlackBerry, EAT., Very, Orange and Nokia which demonstrate the power of the location-based consumer interaction.

Commenting on the announcement, Miles Quitmann, managing director of Proxama said, “The demand for NFC-based marketing is picking up a head of steam and we are delighted to be working with The Logic Group to design and launch NFC-based sales incentives as the first step in bringing NFC into the mainstream. We have already built up a wealth of experience running NFC marketing campaigns for a variety of clients so this link up with The Logic Group is really exciting. It opens up the potential to deliver some large scale initiatives that will enhance consumers’ shopping experiences by connecting the physical and digital worlds. By using our TapPointTM campaign management platform, retailers have the ability to collect valuable data about those consumers that participate in the campaign.”

 

 


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