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[garth] 25/5/2007 09:09

25K MM trade

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[garth] 24/5/2007 19:57

Detailed article new today on RFID, NFC, Oyster, Mastercard, Paypass etc. Useful guide on current state of play in the space.

RFID Payment Platforms Gaining Momentum

At last week's CardTech 2007 payments industry conference, Visa, MasterCard and American Express provided updates on their RFID-enabled payments rollouts.

[benson] 24/5/2007 16:25

What's that 'snippet'?

We have a chart breakout.

[wooden5] 24/5/2007 16:23

from the snippet i have heard,i expect a few more pence to be added on yet

[woofwoof] 24/5/2007 12:28

really starting to move now

[woofwoof] 24/5/2007 12:09

I think there must a big buyer around as largest sells (for this stock) are going through but the price is still rising

[garth] 24/5/2007 11:58

Did we get a Shares Mag tip?

[woofwoof] 24/5/2007 11:46

Finally seems to be moving does anyone know why

[wooden5] 17/5/2007 06:30

Innovision's Topaz winner's choice at European NFC Competition
Seeing Eye Phone NFC Application to help visually impaired peopel read product information in shop

Wednesday 16th May, 2007


Topaz(R), designed and developed by British firm, Innovision Research & Technology, was used by the overall winner of Track B - "Most Innovative NFC Proposal of the Year 2007", at the first European NFC Competition held last month as part of the NFC Developers Summit at the Wireless Information Multimedia Application (WIMA) 2007 event held in Monaco.



Topaz, mandated last year by the NFC Forum as the Type 1 Near Field Communication (NFC) tag, has proved to be a popular choice at the first European NFC Competition and was the tag of choice for the track B winners the "Seeing Eye Phone", an innovative use of NFC by the Technical Research Centre of FInland, VTT.



The project is aimed at visually impaired customers who are unable to read product information in shops. The topaz tag containing an ID and address with product-specific data such as the price, use-by-date and nutritional values, is simply attached to the shelf next to each product. When the customer holds an NFC-enabled phone up to the tag, the text-based information is retrieved and the phone's text-to-speech synthesiser feeds the information directly to the user in their chosen language.

Innovision's Topaz tag, popular among NFC developers for it's memory size, low-cost capabilities and flexibility across a wide range of NFC applications, was used by many of the NFC Competition's 21 finalists, including France's MIS MDBS for it's "HOTELNOVA" and the Institute of Electronic Business from the University of Arts in Berlin for its "Mobile Sales Assistant for retailer (MSA)' application.

"The NFC Competition is all about promoting innovation and excellence in NFC service implementations, both now and for the future," said Marc Borrett, Business Development Director at Innovision Research & Technology. "We were inspired not only by the creativity and practicality of some of the applications on display, but excited by the very positive response we got to our Topaz tag and the fact that it was used by the Track B winner and many of the finalists."

About Innovision Research & Technology plc

Innovision Research & Technology plc, is a leading NFC/RFID IC design and solutions provider. At the heart fo the emerging Near Field Communication (NFC) market, designing and developing solutions for the mobile handset and consumer device sectors, the company also focuses on RFID and ultra low-cost Integrated Circuit (IC) and electronic design.

Innovision R&T develops innovative technologies and technology applications for commercialisation and then licenses the technology on to its customers who incorporate it into their own products. The company's work with customers includes pre-engineering studies, building of prototypes and complete product development through to production, including full custom silicon chip design.

Innovision R&T products include Topaz, mandated by the NFC Forum as the NFC number one tag format, Jewel for mass transit ticketing applications, and "io", the world's smallest standards compatible near field RFID reader.

Headquartered in the UK, the company was established in 1994 and is listed on the Alternative Market (AIM) of the Lodnon Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: INN).

About the European NFC Competition

Called "Touching the Future", the first European NFC Competition took place on 18/19 April at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. Launched by the NFC Forum (www.nfc-forum.org) in partnership with the SmartTouch project (www.smarttouch.org), it is desgined to promote innovation and excellence in NFC service implementations throughout Europe. Sponsors include Nokia and Innovision Research & Technology.

About Innovision Research & Technology plc

Innovision Research & technology plc, is leading the next generation of NFC/RFID solutions. As the leading fabless developer of Short-Range Data Communication semiconductor and system solutions, with particular focus on NFC/RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and ultra low-cost Interated Circuit (IC) and RF electronic design, IRT is pushing cost performance to enable clients to get maximum utility for minimum cost.

The company develops innovative semiconductor technologies, ICs, RF systems (HF/UHF) and complete end product applications for mass volume commercialisation and then licenses customers for its incorporation into their own products.

At the heart of the emerging Near Field Communication (NFC) market, Innovision R&T designs and develops NFC/RFID IC solutions for the global mobile handset and consumer device sectors.

Products include Topaz, mandated by the NFC Forum as the NFC number one tag type format, Jewel for mass transit ticketing applications, and io, the world's smallest standards compatible Near-Field RFID reader.

Headquartered in the UK, Innovision R&T was listed in 2001 on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange (ticker symbol:INN).

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[katylied] 16/5/2007 15:24

OK, 'a couple' = 2, 'a few' = 3-6, 'several' = 7-?
So over 3 years, should contribute not less than
an average of say... £3m/yr?...

Probably just as important, is the show
of confidence by the 'semi company'.
Implication being that INN have
something worth selling...

[garth] 16/5/2007 09:42

Frisky again this morning :0)

[houseprices] 15/5/2007 23:02

they don't, just like they have no influence on who buys/sell it. prefer buy..........................actually. £1.00 by end July

[davey3] 15/5/2007 11:09

benson - i don't think the company has any influence on who makes markets in its stock

[benson] 14/5/2007 08:09

Now four market makers. I therefore assume the company is trying to make the stock more liquid and that the quantity of shares traded will increase.

[garth] 10/5/2007 13:54

Glue4 launches new NFC smart poster solution
Norfolk-based marketing technology company Glue4 has launched a unique full service interactive smart poster solution for mobile network operators, brands and retailers.

The innovative solution builds on the contactless payments infrastructure currently being rolled out around the country.

Harnessing the power of both mobile and interactive outdoor marketing, NFC smart posters include a range of advertising media tagged with an NFC chip. The chip passes information to viewers on demand, in this case through their NFC-enabled mobile phone. The information could be a link to further product details accessed through the mobile internet or a money-off voucher. There are also a wide range of more advanced applications from voting to buying tickets.

Glue4 MD Dr Neil Garner explains:

"Glue4Touch brings together under one roof a range of marketing and connectivity technologies to deliver any smart poster proposition to a mobile phone, including, vouchers and promotions, viral marketing, interactive advertising and m-commerce. At the backend, this part handset application / part ASP hosted solution offers brands real measurability and insight into who is viewing their adverts, when and what they are doing next. For instance, where did they redeem the voucher, who did they forward the digital download on to or how many tickets did they buy and to what event."
As the infrastructure for contactless payments is rolled out around the UK, more and more brands are looking to explore the marketing potential of NFC. Neil Garner says:

"Contactless is rapidly becoming a well understood and trusted technology thanks to everyday uses such as Oyster and the new payments trials with MasterCard and Visa among others. It's a simple technology that our user trials prove is popular with both early and late adopters.
"The Glue4Touch service complements existing mobile marketing mechanisms, offering brands powerful additional benefits. For example, unlike Bluetooth campaigns which require viewers to switch on the application and run the risk of spam, with NFC smart posters the viewer chooses to interact by tapping the NFC smart poster to trigger the chip and receive the information. This puts the power back in the hands of the viewer who can then choose to easily pass the information to other people's phones using the same simple and secure touch mechanism. Our user trials demonstrate the importance of this viral potential."
The first Nokia NFC-enabled phones will be available in May 2007 with other handset manufacturers planning to introduce NFC models later in the year. Ahead of the mass take-up of NFC phones, Glue4Touch offers brands and media owners a range of practical and cost-effective solutions for NFC-enabling consumers' existing phones.

[katylied] 05/5/2007 08:31

This video demonstrates the use of NFC with Bluetooth to set up communications with other devices. I bought a BlueTooth dongle the other day (v2.0 and only ~£5 total, on ebay nowadays). I had not bothered with Bluetooth before, as WiFi does pretty much all I need. However, I do have a Wifi+Bluetooth IPAQ so decided to finally try it out. The dongle came with BlueSoleil software. The process for finding other devices is, shall we say... 'interesting'... Certainly there is scope for problems, particularly the first time you try any new device. NFC is ideally suited to sorting this out, as the above video clearly demonstrates...

There is reckoned to be an installed base of over a billion Bluetooth-enabled devices worldwde, currently. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) say that 12 million enabled devices are sold every week. They reckon 2 billion devices will ship every year, starting in 2010...

So, come on CSR, time you bought INN.
You must know it makes sense...

[garth] 04/5/2007 10:22

Heading up again today....

[wooden5] 03/5/2007 15:42

got 30k in this...according to my broker big things to come...we will see..if it goes up another 5p i will get 30k nore and wait out the ride

[britishbear] 03/5/2007 14:15

Good job garth. Move complete.

[masurenguy] 01/5/2007 17:10

Thanks garth - old thread needed updating !

[garth] 01/5/2007 16:51

FWIW, I've started putting some stuff together on a new thread. Feel free to use either. But its there to be updated if anyone wants it.



G.

[garth] 30/4/2007 07:34

Very informative background on NFC:

Extract only:

"The NFC Forum-originally set up by Nokia, Philips and Sony, but now consisting of over 100 members-markets NFC both for contactless commerce and as a simple way to establish Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections. As Figure 1 indicates, it typically takes about six seconds to establish a Bluetooth connection-and that's only after you've gone to considerable length to instantiate the initial link. In an NFC world, you'd simply pass your cell phone near the "hot spot" on your computer or DSC and then wave it next to your Bluetooth-enabled printer. Having established the connection, the cell phone is out of the picture and the computer or DSC can now stream data directly to the printer."



INN's Topaz chip is the NFC Forum's mandated Type 1 tag. For comparision of the 4 mandated specifications for tags see below:

[garth] 29/4/2007 16:26

While we are on the topic:

Barclays targets taxis with wave-and-pay tech

'I had that NFC contactless payments infrastructure in the back of my cab once'

By Jo Best

Published: Friday 27 April 2007

After introducing Oyster card-style contactless payments functionality into its plastic, Barclays has been working on a contactless system for taxis.

Barclays and Computer Cab have teamed up to develop a near field communication payments system for taxis, where passengers can pay for a fare by pressing their NFC-equipped credit or debit card against a reader, in the same way many Londoners pay for fares with an Oyster card.

The pair have developed a showcase cab as part of Barclays' ongoing trial to add Visa 'wave and pay' and Oyster capability onto credit cards and debit cards. Barclays hopes to introduce NFC cards later this year.

NFC technology is already in use in mobile phones and cards in Japan and the US but has been slow in coming to Europe. However, mobile companies are still trying to drum up momentum for NFC payments on mobile phones.

A number of operators including O2, Orange and Vodafone this week signed up to support trade body the GSMA's Buy Pay initiative, which aims to encourage the deployment of NFC payments via mobile phones at retail outlets.

A recent report from market watchers ABI Research predicts NFC-enabled mobiles will reach 450 million units in 2011 - nearly 30 per cent of handsets sold that year.

[garth] 29/4/2007 16:17

Thanks to Hebgb on the SMRT thread. From today's Sunday Times:

Paying by mobile, that'll do nicely
Mobile phones are replacing cash and cards as a method of paying for goods, writes Emma Smith



Extract only:

Industry insiders predict the new technology could arrive in the UK within one year. Pay-by-mobile received a boost last week, when the GSMA (Groupe Speciale Mobile Association), representing mobile phone operators, announced a framework for a global standard for mobile phone payments. This would allow users of networks such as and Orange to use their phones to make purchases in the sameVodafone, O2 way around the world.

"After several fragmented initiatives, we are now uniting around a single approach to enable mobile phones to be used instead of cash or plastic," said Rob Conway, the GSMA's chief executive.

The ability for mobile phones to be used as payment devices has long been seen as the holy grail for both phone companies and banks. As tariffs for conventional calls fall and competition from cheap or free calls over the internet heats up, phone companies are increasingly looking to new applications to boost revenue.

The technology that enables payment by mobile phone is called NFC (near field communications). An NFC chip in the handset enables short-range wireless radio communication between the phone and the reader (in a similar way to Oyster travel cards in London), which triggers the payment. Bank or credit card details can be stored in various ways, but the GSMA favours keeping them on the phone's sim card. The phone can simply be swiped across a reader, or customers can type a pin code into the phone to authorise larger payments. Some companies are also considering pay-as-you-go options, whereby purchases could be deducted from a prepaid balance.

One of the principal backers of the new technology is MasterCard, which is behind a mobile phone payment system called PayPass on test in the US and France. MasterCard, which last week signed a deal with phone companies Nokia and Samsung, says it is considering expanding its trials to the UK. The credit card provider has already linked up with four of the top five US banks to offer payments by mobile phone in 51,000 global shops and restaurants.

"We've got all the different companies working together and we have proved it works and is commercially viable," says Tatiana Mulry, a new technology specialist at MasterCard. "I used my phone to pay in a McDonald's the other day and everybody in the queue was fascinated. They love the convenience."