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WIMA 2011 -WIMA 5th Global NFC Applications Products & Services Congress
11 months ago
WIMA 5th Global NFC Applications Products & Services Congress will take place from 19 to 21 April 2011 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
19-21 APRIL 2011 – Grimaldi Forum – Monaco
WIMA is the largest international Conference & Exhibition exclusively dedicated to NFC technology, bringing together industry leaders, start-up companies, application developers, service providers, standards organisations, government bodies and research & educational institutions to its annual event in Monaco.
Featuring an exhibition and demonstration floor packed with the largest, most innovative NFC applications, products and services, parallel Business & Technical conference tracks and hands on workshops where excellent networking is guaranteed.
Why Attend?
WIMA is the largest international Conference & Exhibition exclusively dedicated to NFC technology, bringing together industry leaders, start-up companies, application developers, service providers, standards organisations, government bodies and research & educational institutions to its annual event in Monaco.
Featuring an exhibition and demonstration floor packed with the latest, most innovative NFC applications, products and services, parallel Business & Technical conference tracks, and hands on workshops where excellent networking is guaranteed.
Northern Europe: Danemark, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Eastern Europe: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Western Europe: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Southern Europe: Italy, Greece, Portugual, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Rest of the World: Iran, Israel, Marocco, Russia, South Africa, Turkey
WIMA delegates are represented by a 50 / 50 NFC Forum, non NFC Forum attendance guaranteeing optimal networking for both members and non-members incorporating both established players and newcomers interested in discovering the business opportunities for a bouquet of services using NFC.
Who will attend?
- Large Enterprises
- SME’s
- Start-Up’s
- Industry Associations / Standards Organisations
- Government Bodies
- Research & Educational Institutions
- Analysts
- Media
Industry Sectors
- Solution Developers: Payment –Ticketing – Loyalty – Access Control – Healthcare – Multimedia – Internet – Multiple Applications
- Product Manufacturers: Mobile Handsets – Consumer Electronics – Smart Card / RFID manufacturer -Terminals and other devices
- Component Manufacturers: Semiconductors- Protocol Stacks / Middleware – Operating Systems
- Service Providers: Mobile Operator – Transport Operator – Banking/Financial Services – Retailer – TSM –Tourism – Security
- Test / Measurement / Qualification: Test Equipment Vendor – Test Lab
- System Integrators
- R&D
- Automotive
- Consultant
WIMA 2010 : Distribution / General Activity Sectors
Key Figures of WIMA 2010:
- more than 500 registered participants (from 37 countries)
- 50 sponsors and exhibitors
- 70 international industry speakers
- over 50 journalists covering the event
Why Monaco?
NFC technology was first introduced to the Principality of Monaco during WIMA 2007. Since then, several NFC projects have been carried out by WIMA with the collaboration of our partners.
The ‘NFC Parcours Princesse Grace Monaco’ an NFC application for tourism was launched during WIMA 2008, in the presence of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco. A second application featuring audio, video and textual information using NFC was presented during the NFC Forum members meeting in December 2008 at the “Nouveau Musée National de Monaco”.
During WIMA 2009 a third project allowed a vehicle user to access and exit the Grimaldi Forum car park by holding a Nokia 6212 NFC device close to a Thales parking terminal to open the barrier of the parking.
With the continued support of our partners, WIMA confirms its position and commitment to furthering the outreach of NFC technology within the Principality of Monaco.
Monaco offers international visibility in an attractive and prestigious environment with a state of the art conference centre (the Grimaldi Forum), excellent international airport access (Nice Cote d’Azur), negotiated hotel rates (ranging from approx. 60 euros to 185 euros per room per night) and is easily accessible by road and rail
More details at www.wima-nfc.com
iPhone Case Lets You Pay With Your Visa Card
1 year ago
Visa has teamed up with mobile payment technology firm, DeviceFidelity to create the In2Pay protective case for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS that turns your handset into a credit card. The In2Pay case uses Visa’s PayWave contactless payment system where you hold your credit card up to a scanner, and your credit card information is transmitted from a small chip embedded in your card.
Instead of a chip, DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay iPhone case features a removable MicroSD card that stores and transmits your credit card information. To pay with your phone you activate a password protected iPhone application, and then hold your phone up to a scanner at any location that accepts contactless Visa payments.
DeviceFidelity and Visa have said consumer trials for the system are scheduled to begin before the summer, but pricing and availability for the In2Pay case has not been announced.
While turning your phone into a digital wallet is common in other parts of the world, most notably Japan, the technology has yet to catch on in the United States largely due to privacy concerns. Mobile payment, as well as contactless payment systems in general, rely on wireless systems that transmit your credit card information over the air. Some of these systems use radio-frequency identification, which has a fairly large broadcasting range, and the security of RFID has been called into question on several occasions . But a newer wireless communication technology called near field communication (NFC), which used in Visa’s payWave system , is considered more secure and has a shorter broadcast range. DeviceFidelity says its In2Pay MicroSD cards also use an “anti-sniffing” security feature that disables the SD card’s transmission abilities when it is not in use to prevent unauthorized access of your credit card information.
Mobile smartphone payment has become a hot topic among smartphone developers and technology companies in recent months. In March, First Data partnered with Tyfone , another mobile payment system company, to create a MicroSD card system for credit card payments similar to DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay. And startup company Square , brainchild of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has introduced a new mobile payment service that uses a small credit card reader a user carries with them along with an iPhone application to make credit card payments. Square allows users to pay with their plastic at participating locations, as well as make payments between individuals for things like personal debts or items sold at a garage sale or through Craigslist.
(It) IL COMMERCIO ELETTRONICO TORNA A CORRERE + 15% NEL 2010
1 year ago
Nel primo trimestre del 2010 l’eCommerce B2c in Italia, inteso come il totale delle vendite realizzate da siti italiani, torna a crescere a doppia cifra con un +16% superando 1,4 miliardi di €. Si prevede una crescita del 15% nel 2010 con una quota di fatturato pari a 6,5 miliardi di €.
IL COMMERCIO ELETTRONICO TORNA A CORRERE + 15% NEL 2010
Su base annua cresceranno sostanzialmente tutti i principali comparti merceologici, tra cui si distinguono l’Abbigliamento (+45%), le Assicurazioni (+21%) e il Turismo (+19%). Proprio il Turismo si confermerà ancora il primo settore con oltre il 50% del valore dell’eCommerce in Italia. L’export è previsto in crescita e supererà finalmente 1 miliardo di €, prevalentemente grazie al contributo di Turismo e Abbigliamento. Crescerà del 6% lo scontrino medio arrivando vicino a quota 230 €.
Rimane comunque prevalente in Italia la vendita di servizi (67%) rispetto alla vendita di prodotti (33%), in contro-fase rispetto ai mercati esteri. Questa la fotografia tracciata dall’Osservatorio Netcomm – School of Management del Politecnico di Milano giunto alla nona edizione.
Milano, 18 maggio 2010 – Torna a correre l’e-commerce in Italia e cresce a doppia cifra nel primo trimestre 2010. Il totale delle vendite realizzate da siti italiani registra, infatti, un incremento del 16% toccando quota 1.425 milioni di euro (con una stima di chiusura dell’anno a 6.505 milioni di euro). Crescono tutti i comparti, dall’Abbigliamento (+51%), all’Informatica ed Elettronica (+23%), al Turismo (+23%), all’Editoria, musica ed audiovisivi (+19%), alle Assicurazioni (+18%), al Grocery (+17%).
