The Apple developer's conference kicks off this morning in San Francisco & the word on the street is that Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, will be announcing that the new iPhone will have 3G support. If you are like me & rushed out to get the first release of the iPhone you are by now so frustrated with the speed of AT&T's Edge network that you rarely use your iPhone's Internet connection unless you are connected to a Wi-Fi network.
Of course the news of a 3G enabled iPhone will make me happy, what I'm most looking forward to finding out is whether or not the new iPhone will be enabled for Near Field Communications (NFC). Like so many others in the space of mobile transactions we all want to see more mobile phones hit the market with NFC capabilities. We all know how other companies follow suit when Apple does something so let's hope Jobs & his team engineered this iPhone release with NFC support. Combine the iPhone's SDK with NFC & we can make magic happen!
Showing posts with label mobile transactions. Show all posts
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Monday, June 9, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
Open Market for NFC Innovations
I had a conversation yesterday with a gentleman who is with M:Metrics. M:Metrics provides statistics & data based on mobile media. Like many other companies, we at NetworkIP are looking to obtain some real-world data on the number of mobile phones available & that have been purchased with Near Field Communications (NFC) support. Come to find out that M:Metrics isn’t even tracking this data right now. The response from M:Metrics was that they are aware of NFC, but not directly measuring it currently because the market place is essentially zero. The market for these things is huge; as an example, take the search for data that many of us in the space are involved in.
Unfortunately what M:Metrics is saying is true. You’ll be hard pressed to find a NFC enabled mobile phone here in the U.S. I was happy to see Nokia release their 6131 model phone with NFC support in early 2007 & too my knowledge the 6131 remains the only mobile phone available with NFC here in the U.S.
We do know that Samsung played part in the NFC BART pilot conducted in San Francisco, CA earlier this year. Unfortunately I’m not aware of the model of phone used for this pilot. Maybe it was Samsung’s X700 which has been rumored to have NFC capabilities or possibly they used a SD chip with NFC capabilities such as the SDiD 1010 NFC SD card from Wireless Dynamics.
As more pilots like the BART pilot are conducted, both businesses & consumers are sure to see the value in NFC & we’ll see the number of mobile phones with NFC capabilities on the rise. Industry leaders suspect NFC will be widely adopted nearer end of 2009. The good news is that it’s not a question of “if”, but “when” it will happen.
Unfortunately what M:Metrics is saying is true. You’ll be hard pressed to find a NFC enabled mobile phone here in the U.S. I was happy to see Nokia release their 6131 model phone with NFC support in early 2007 & too my knowledge the 6131 remains the only mobile phone available with NFC here in the U.S.
We do know that Samsung played part in the NFC BART pilot conducted in San Francisco, CA earlier this year. Unfortunately I’m not aware of the model of phone used for this pilot. Maybe it was Samsung’s X700 which has been rumored to have NFC capabilities or possibly they used a SD chip with NFC capabilities such as the SDiD 1010 NFC SD card from Wireless Dynamics.
As more pilots like the BART pilot are conducted, both businesses & consumers are sure to see the value in NFC & we’ll see the number of mobile phones with NFC capabilities on the rise. Industry leaders suspect NFC will be widely adopted nearer end of 2009. The good news is that it’s not a question of “if”, but “when” it will happen.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Registration Complete for Prepaid 2008
Today I completed my registration for the upcoming Prepaid Expo & Conference taking place later this month in London. Attending this conference is an exciting opportunity for NetworkIP as we look to talk more about our recent release of our Transaction Processing Engine & how the capabilities of our engine will play part in the growing & developing mobile transactions space.
Standards For Mobile Banking
PaymentNews.com recently released an article that the Financial Services Technology Consortium (FTSC) will soon be kicking off an initiative to make recommendations on an approach that would facilitate an interoperable mobile payments infrastructure in the future.
Interoperability amongst key participants (in this case handset manufacturers, banks, mobile operators, & wireless network providers) is an essential element to ensure mobile banking & transactions take off. Like any other technology that requires integration among many participants standards must developed & ultimately adhered too. Without such a standard, I’m afraid it will take too long for us to realize the potential for mobile banking & transactions.
Interoperability amongst key participants (in this case handset manufacturers, banks, mobile operators, & wireless network providers) is an essential element to ensure mobile banking & transactions take off. Like any other technology that requires integration among many participants standards must developed & ultimately adhered too. Without such a standard, I’m afraid it will take too long for us to realize the potential for mobile banking & transactions.
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