We talk to Howard Berg and Naomi Lurie of Gemalto about financial services on mobile phones, covering everything from security concerns to mobile banking and contactless payments.
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Orange and Barclaycard have launched what's being described as the UK's first contactless mobile phone payments service.
It's called Quick Tap and uses an NFC-equipped SIM card from Gemalto, enabling customers to make purchases of £15 and under nationwide at over 50,000 stores that have adopted the MasterCard PayPass contactless payment system.
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First there were SIMs the size of credit cards. Then there were the fingernail-sized cards we've become familiar with. More recently we've seen a microSIM in the Apple iPhone 4. And now Apple wants to shrink SIM cards even more.
Apple has contacted the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to propose an ultra-small SIM card for future devices.
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Digital security company Gemalto has announced that its SIM card embedded with a Near Field Communication application has been certified by MasterCard. It's the world’s first SIM-embedded app that complies with MasterCard's mobile NFC spec.
Gemalto's now preparing to launch the service in the UK with a global financial institution and a mobile operator.
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Digital security company Gemalto has announced a new service called Facebook for SIM. It embeds Facebook in a SIM card, enabling mobile network operators to offer the service to customers without a data connection.
Participating networks can offer the service free for a trial period before introducing a flat-rate subscription charge.
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