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mpass: German mobile network operators launch NFC payments joint venture

Seth Planck — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:11:15 +0000

mpass: German mobile network operators launch NFC payments joint venture Seth Planck

mpass: German mobile network operators launch NFC payments joint venture

Telefónica Germany, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone have announced a joint venture under the brand mpass that will bring NFC payments to Germany in early 2012 using NFC stickers and then transition to NFC phones.

Another day, another European country announces a mobile network operator NFC payments joint venture - this time it's called mpass and has been announced for Germany. Again, Vodafone, Telefónica and Deutsche Telekom (The Three Musketeers) have come together as they have with all other European joint ventures for NFC payments in Germany. Same old gang, same old mission - to control and own NFC payments in another European market and prevent rivals from entering the market. The three companies have signed a letter of understanding to combine their networks to form mpass, which will facilitate and act as a trusted service manager for all three networks. We are starting to wonder if we shouldn't just write up a quick post for each European country now that doesn't have a "joint venture" announced and just change the dates, because at this point, it really isn't all new joint ventures or collaborations, it is merely three companies' efforts to control the European continent's NFC payments.

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HTC Desire could get NFC compatibility with upcoming Gingerbread update

Seth Planck — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:22:15 +0000

HTC Desire could get NFC compatibility with upcoming Gingerbread update Seth Planck

Over the last couple of months there has been flip-flop news about whether or not the HTC Desire would get Google's Gingerbread OS which includes NFC compatibility. Yesterday the company confirmed on its Facebook page that it would indeed be upgrading its HTC Desire to run on Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread.This is the quote from the company "Hi all- We're excited to share that we are testing our build of Gingerbread for HTC Desire and will start doing quality assurance for it this week. When we have an update on availability we'll post another announcement. Thanks for your support!"HTC is testing Gingerbread on its Desire smartphone at the moment and should be releasing the update over the air within the next few weeks.HTC Desire Gingerbread rollout date not announcedFirst released in April of last year the HTC Desire is starting to age, and it was feared that the device would not have enough memory to run on Android 2.3. The company had said it would not be updating the HTC Desire on the 15th of June but changed its mind within an hour and we have been waiting for an update ever since. The smartphone features a 3.7 inch display and zips along with a 1GHz processor and has 512 MB of RAM. The HTC desire ships with Android 2.1, or Eclair, and has a 5 mega pixel shooter with flash and geotagging capability.

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