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MIFARE gets an image video from NXP

NXP have recently relaunched their MIFARE.net web site: http://mifare.net and to remind us all how important MIFARE is to the contactless transport industry, they’ve put together an impressive and expansive image video for the technology. Check it out here.  

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Vancouver’s Green City Plan to use NXP’s MIFARE DESFire

NXP Semiconductors N.V. have announced that Canada’s South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority (TransLink) has adopted its MIFARE technology platform for Vancouver’s public transport system. With the introduction of NXP’s MIFARE technology, the company says that TransLink can quickly roll out a reliable and secure contactless service across the entire infrastructure to further accelerate use […]

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NXP Maintains Pole Position Within the Ticketing Market Despite Increasing Competition from austriamicrosystems, Infineon, and Samsung

Despite competition clearly increasing within the contactless ticketing market, NXP maintains a dominate foothold, through its line of MiFare solutions. NXP achieved a combined market share in excess of 70% for 2011 smart card and RFID ticketing IC shipments. The OSPT continues its quest in penetrating the market with CiPurse product and has certainly had […]

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Giesecke & Devrient and NXP Sign MIFARE Licensing Agreement

NXP Semiconductors N.V and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) have signed an agreement enabling G&D to integrate NXP’s MIFARE™ technology into its portfolio of secure SIM products. With the new MIFARE DESFire™ and MIFARE Plus™ based SIM cards, including backward compatibility to MIFARE Classic, G&D can now serve the growing demand of mobile network operators for […]

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NXP and Bank Mega enhance customer experience for in-door theme parks

NXP Semiconductors and Bank Mega are collaborating to bring an innovative contactless ticketing solution to Trans Studios Makassar and Bandung, two of the world’s largest in-door theme parks. This contactless smart card enables visitors to securely access the theme parks’ facilities as well as make convenient micropayments at retail locations and public services possible. The […]

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VIDEO: NXP talk multi-applications

C-ITV met with Steve Owen and Christian Wiebus from NXP Semiconductors at Cartes 2010 to find out what NXP’s vision for the multi applications marketplace is and how NXP has positioned itself for future driven applications. Specifically we spoke about their new product offering – the Smart MX2 controllers.

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Traveling through San Francisco on contactless tickets

As the home of global payments firm Visa Inc, it’s no surprise that contactless is such a big hit in San Francisco. The city has featured in promotional videos from the company highlighting the convenience of leaving a wallet at home and paying for small value items with contactless. But the trend for contactless goes […]

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Beyond Strudel: Vienna is a true NFC capital!

Vienna’s coffee shops are well-known internationally not only for their warmth of welcome but also their outstanding quality and good service. And the Austrian capital’s same demand for the best quality and service is now driving the city’s adoption of contactless technology. Over the past three years, Telekom Austria Group’s cell phone subsidiary mobilkom austria […]

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