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Zenius Solutions enables interactive NFC on current GSM phones
October 2009 by Marc Jacob
Zenius Solutions, a leading NFC software company, today announced the integration of its software to an NFC add-on for GSM phones, offering the ability to easily enable interactive NFC capability on current mobile phones. The solution expands on current NFC offerings in the market by supporting multiple NFC applications, providing control to the user from the handset screen, and supporting remote provisioning of NFC applications.
NFC payment capability is achieved by adding a BLADOX Waver product running ZeniusMobilePay software to supported GSM phones, enabling secure Mastercard PayPass, Visa payWave, American Express ExpressPay and Discover Network Zip EMV and non-EMV Contactless transactions. The solution provides a breakthrough for the NFC industry, enabling the installed base of millions of GSM mobile phones to be retrofitted for interactive NFC.
The Zenius-enabled BLADOX Waver solution fits into the phone’s SIM slot along with the original SIM card. The add-on seamlessly and securely integrates with wallet applications on the mobile phone – allowing a consumer to control and access multiple applications dynamically, providing the same functionalities available in NFC capable phones.
The application combinations that could be loaded remotely onto the Waver are diverse and endless, and the Zenius software design ensures that multiple applications – such as transport, payment, and coupons - will be interoperable and compatible. Zenius supplies EMV and non-EMV payment software, as well as a suite of closed-loop applications, to mobile wallet providers, issuing banks, merchants, and add-on hardware manufacturers.
Zenius – which recently released software to emulate and accept contactless payment cards on Nokia NFC capable phones – noted that the Zenius-enabled BLADOX Waver can interface with platforms including the Apple iPhone, Google Android, and RIM BlackBerry. A complete list of phones is available from Zenius.
