Isis, the joint venture between AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, announced today that HTC, LG, Motorola Mobility, RIM, Samsung Mobile and Sony Ericsson will introduce NFC-enabled mobile devices that implement Isis’ NFC and technology standards. For consumers who have or purchase smartphones that are not NFC-enabled, Isis is working with DeviceFidelity to add NFC functionality to the mobile device, ensuring a wide range of consumer choice.

"The Smart Card Alliance has released a white paper report to provide a view into the Mobile Payments and NFC landscape in the U.S. DeviceFidelity's Co-Founder and COO Amitaabh Malhotra contributed in the development and review of content for the white paper."

"Most users of contactless mobile payments in the UK enjoy using the technology,but want to see it in more shops where fast transactions would be of benefit,according to the latest research. Visa Europe today released its first Contactless Barometer to benchmark consumer take up of new payment methods and highlight Britain’s changing attitudes to the way we pay. The research, of 2,000 UK consumers,showed positive feedback about the contactless technology from those who used the payment system, and a hunger for wider availability in mainstream retail outlets. "

"Visa Inc. today announced plans to accelerate the migration to EMV contact and contactless chip technology in the United States. The adoption of dual-interface chip technology will help prepare the U.S. payment infrastructure for the arrival of NFC-based mobile payments by building the necessary infrastructure to accept and process chip transactions that support either a signature or PIN at the point of sale. "

"You call your friends with it, you take pictures with it, you write e-mails on it, you schedule events and play games on it – and soon you may be buying your groceries or even paying your bills with it. Your smartphone could soon become your new wallet."

"MasterCard claims mobile touch-and-go payments through microSD cards is the future of mobile phones in Australia. The company made the call following Visa's announcement earlier this week of a 50-employee trial with ANZ of iPhone cases embedded with Near Field Communications (NFC) chips to test contactless payments like in PayPass and PayWave cards."

"The retail point of sale represents a point of convergence for smartphone-initiated payments, social networking and electronic couponing, but it won't happen if retailers are expected, on faith, to absorb the costs of making it work," says CEO Douglas G Bergeron."