Nintendo Siapkan Action Figure Mario Ber-NFC untuk Pelangkap Home Console Mereka

Dalam presentasi terakhirnya, Nintendo mengumumkan bahwa walaupun penjualan Wii U melewati angka 6,17 juta unit, mereka tetap mengalami kerugian yang signifikan. Tapi melihat reputasi yang mereka miliki, kerugian sama sekali bukanlah halangan untuk berinovasi. Nintendo umumkan sebuah action figure Mario untuk mendukung kegiatan gaming para fans. Continue reading Nintendo Siapkan Action Figure Mario Ber-NFC untuk Pelangkap Home Console Mereka

NFC and Electronic Wallet Still Largely Irrelevant in Global Mobile Payment But Will Grow Eventually

Research companies Gartner and Berg Insight recently released reports regarding the state of mobile payment. While Gartner’s report covers the world market, Berg’s report covers just the United States and both discovered that NFC and services like Google Wallet have yet to make a mark in mobile payment adoption. The majority of mobile payments according to Gartner is made up of direct money transfers while Berg’s report says Starbucks cards dominates in the US.

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MasterCard Perkenalkan MasterPass, Inovasi Layanan Pembayaran Digital

Tahun 2013 agaknya dijadikan momentum bagi sejumlah perusahaan baik global maupun lokal untuk memperkenalkan teknologi dan produk baru terkait layanan e-money. Salah satunya datang dari raksasa finansial MasterCard yang melakukan gebrakan lewat program MasterPass. Layanan yang diperkenalkan di ajang Mobile World Congress 2013 ini menjadi ambisi perusahaan yang ingin menguasai sistem pembayaran di semua lini, baik fisik maupun digital, dengan mendukung berbagai kartu pembayaran dan perangkat mobile untuk melakukan pembayaran. Continue reading MasterCard Perkenalkan MasterPass, Inovasi Layanan Pembayaran Digital

[Manic Monday] Using NFC To Distribute Your Music – And More

Near-field communication, otherwise known as NFC, is still somewhat of a mystery to most. It’s often touted as the ‘killer’ new feature of some app or phone, as it is gradually being integrated with some high-end phones (and even some mid-range phones), although most of the world still has no real use for it. The most notable use of NFC is of course mobile payment systems like Google Wallet, Isis and some Visa or Mastercard-driven programs in Europe, Singapore and Korea.

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Kunci Mobil dengan NFC? Hyundai Sedang Kembangkan Konsep Ini

Kalau mendengar NFC atau Near Field Communication dengan menggunakan smartphone, bisa jadi hal pertama yang ada di kepala adalah share foto dengan men-tap ponsel atau pembayaran menggunakan teknologi NFC. Namun produsen mobil Hyundai sedang melakukan uji konsep agar kunci mobil bisa dilakukan dengan menggunakan smartphone yang dilengkapi NFC.

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Location-based Service Yotomo Survives, Adds Point Reward Feature to App

Location-based service recently experiences obstables. Koprol is closed by Yahoo! And returned to its original owner, while Bouncity is sold to Qeon so it would be developed further. Another local location-based service is Yotomo. Although the number of its user is not as big as the two mentioned before, Yotomo is certain that it will survive with the developed business model. Even in this second week of August, Yotomo is update its app with point reward system.

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Layanan Berbasis Lokasi Yotomo Masih Bertahan, Bakal Perbarui Aplikasi dengan Sistem Point Rewards

Layanan berbasis lokasi memang akhir-akhir ini mengalami gonjang-ganjing. Koprol ditutup oleh Yahoo! dan dikembalikan kepada pemilik asalnya, sementara Bouncity malah dijual ke pihak Qeon supaya bisa dikembangkan lagi. Satu lagi layanan berbasis lokasi lokal adalah Yotomo. Meskipun jumlah penggunanya belum sebesar dua nama sebelumnya, Yotomo yakin bahwa pihaknya masih bisa bertahan dengan model bisnis yang sedang dikembangkan. Bahkan di minggu kedua Agustus ini, Yotomo bakal memperbarui aplikasinya dengan sistem point rewards.

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Telkom Starts Trial Service on Mobile NFC Payment with NTT Data

Starting October last year to February 2012, Telkom R&D team has been doing mobile NFC payment trial together with NTT Data and NTT Data Indonesia – a subsidiary of NTT Japan. This is the first in Indonesia, even though we all already know that this kind of technology is already very advanced in Japan for years. Unfortunately, there is no certainty when such technology will be widely implemented in Indonesia.

Mobile NFC payment is basically using our phones as a means of payment. Tools that can be associated with NFC can be a phone that has been integrated with NFC chip, SIM Card with NFC technology (or RFID in general) and even a help tool (bride technology) so that even ordinary phone can use it as a means of payment. Performed by two teams, the experiment covers all methods.

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Telkom Uji Coba mobile NFC payment dengan NTT Data

Dari bulan Oktober tahun lalu hingga Februari 2012, tim R&D Telkom telah melakukan ujicoba mobile NFC payment bekerja sama dengan NTT Data dan NTT Data Indonesia — yang merupakan anak perusahaan NTT Jepang. Ini merupakan yang pertama di Indonesia, meskipun kita semua sudah tahu bahwa di Jepang yang sudah sangat maju itu teknologi semacam ini telah ada selama bertahun-tahun. Sayangnya, belum ada kepastian kapan teknologi semacam ini bakal diimplementasikan secara luas di Indonesia.

Mobile NFC payment pada dasarnya adalah menggunakan ponsel kita sebagai alat pembayaran. Alat yang berhubungan dengan NFC bisa berupa ponsel yang sudah terintegrasi dengan NFC chip, SIM card yang memiliki teknologi NFC (atau RFID secara umum), dan bahkan suatu alat bantu (bridge technology) supaya ponsel biasa sekalipun bisa memakainya sebagai alat pembayaran. Uji coba yang dilakukan oleh kedua tim ini mencakup keseluruhan metode.

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Visa Certifies Several Smartphones for NFC Payment

Visa has establish partnership with a number of smartphone brands using the Android platform and BlackBerry to the list of certified products for NFC (Near Field Communication) payments. As reported by Computer World, smartphones included in the 1st batch list are Samsung Galaxy SII, LG Optimus NET NFC, BlackBerry Bold 9900, BlackBerry Bold 9790, BlackBerry Curve 9360, Curve 9380 and BlackBerry. This certification means that the smartphone have fulfilled the requirements to use Visa’s payWave technology.

PayWave machine are currently available for 185 thousand pieces scattered all over Europe. From any other country in the world, it seems that Europe is an early adopter of this NFC technology. The value added of using payWave technology is the compatibility with Google Wallet service. Thus if you use your phone as a medium of payment, you can choose to use Google Wallet to do fast and convenient transaction.

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