Tag: NFC
Making Payments with M-Pesa 1 Tap Will Focus On Speed and Ease of Use
The announcement of Safaricom’s new MPESA-based solution, M-Pesa 1 Tap is aiming to be a game changer in payment services for M-Pesa users. Generally speaking, this is a bold...
Safaricom’s NFC Powered M-Pesa 1 Tap Payments Solution is Now Official
Safaricom has finally rolled the curtains on its new product, M-Pesa 1 Tap. The solution, as its name suggests, is a Tap and Go...
Safaricom Explores NFC Mobile Wallets for Mass Market Deployment, Might Just Be Integrated into Lipa Na Mpesa
M-Pesa has played a major role in bringing financial services to Kenya's unbanked population. Serving 56% of the population, mobile money has had a...
MediaTek’s Proximity Technology, Hotknot to Rival NFC
MediaTek has a new proximity technology, Hotknot, which should be seen in Chinese smartphones soon enough. Hotknot requires no RF communication chip to work,...
NFC Card driven business in Kenya suffers from the curse that is mobility
One would assume that in a market where everything good is happening in the mobile industry, new products by large multinational companies would go...
GSMA Mobile Asia Expo To Feature NFC Experience
The GSMA Mobile Asia Expo, planned for 26-28 June, will feature the NFC experience through which exhibitors, vendors and attendees will be able to...
Fancy a smart home? Meet Samsung Smart Door Lock SHS-3320
Samsung subsidiary, Samsung Network Services and Solutions (SNS) has introduced a very innovative door lock. Driven by several level authentication, this lock is both...
Vodafone plans to launch Mobile wallet for all markets
Starting 2013, you will be seeing a very serious contender in the mobile space taking on the mobile wallet scene. Vodafone which commands 30...
Samsung launches Bada 2.0 with NFC and multitasking
Samsung Bada 2.0 was unveiled on February in the mobile world congress. The Bada 2.0 SDK, launched yesterday by Samsung is Samsung's own OS,...