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September 2016 The technology behind the mobile app was developed by Rambus Ecebs and uses Host Card Emulation (HCE), an approach used widely within the payment industry to enable software emulation of a traditional smartcard on a mobile phone. Leaders in smart ticketing and mobile technology reveal HCE ticketing for travel trial on mobile phones […]
Mobile payments offer a plethora of benefits for consumers, retailers and financial institutions. For consumers, mobile wallets provide a convenient, “tap and go” frictionless commerce experience that seamlessly integrates loyalty cards, boarding passes, ID cards, coupons, event tickets, alerts and notifications. For retailers, mobile wallets offer businesses the ability to engage users with an immersive, […]
A new survey conducted by Moneris finds that 25% of Canadians between the ages of 18-34 prefer paying with a mobile wallet over cash or card. “Of Canadians aged 18-34, 46% said they would be more likely to use a mobile wallet if it were available for the kind of credit card they used,” Moneris […]
Rambus principal research scientist Patrick Gill recently penned an article for Telecoms Tech about how lensless smart sensors (LSS) can potentially play an important role in building future smart cities. As Gill notes, LSS technology offers a fundamentally new approach to visual sensing by shifting the function of traditional optics to computation, thereby eliminating the […]
Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have introduced a programming language extension known as Milk that allows app developers to manage memory more efficiently in programs with scattered data points in large data sets. To be sure, fetching data from memory banks is currently a major performance bottleneck, with cores grabbing […]
A new report published by Research & Markets states that the global NFC transaction market will grow at a CAGR of 55.23% during 2016-2020. The report also names host card emulation (HCE) as one of the “latest trends” leading to market growth. Put simply, mobile payment credentials have traditionally been stored in a smartphone hardware […]
The International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications recently convened in Lausanne, Switzerland. As Christoforos Kachris, a senior researcher at the National Technical University of Athens notes, exploring the role of FPGAs in the data center took center stage at the conference. “Christoph Hagleitne presented IBM’s view of the major applications where FPGAs can provide […]
Rahul Mathur brings over 20 years of financial experience to management team SUNNYVALE, Calif. – September 19, 2016 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) today announced that Mr. Rahul Mathur has accepted the position of senior vice president and chief financial officer. Mr. Mathur will be responsible for the overall financial direction of the company and will […]
A new Worldpay survey of UK consumers confirms that half of those polled have used a contactless method to pay for goods at least once, with 40% of respondents opting for contactless payments a few times a week. According to Ben Lobel of SmallBusiness, the survey also found that the advent of Apple Pay and Android […]
A recent Square survey cited by Business Insider found that 45% of millennial respondents (18-34) have made an NFC payment. According to Business Insider, the poll is a “good indicator” of where mobile payment adoption is headed, with the publication forecasting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 80% through 2020 to reach $503 billion. […]