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Press Clippings

Sometimes we make the news. And sure enough, we are kind of proud about that. So here's an overview of articles that have featured us. Enjoy reading.

New platform lets mobile operators offer payments, ticketing, loyalty services via stickers or NFC phones

A new collaboration between Touchatag, the near field communication tag applications specialist owned by Alcatel-Lucent, and payments systems specialist Clear2Pay enables mobile operators to launch mobile wallet services based on contactless stickers. The new platform includes payment, ticketing and marketing services and is compatible with NFC phones as well as stickers.

All that’s missing for NFC are the phones

Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) venture touchatag announced a collaboration with payment provider Clear2Pay to create a mobile payment framework for mobile operators

Start-up Alcatel-Lucent Bell in goeden doen

Touchatag, de vorig jaar gelanceerde start-up van Alcatel-Lucent Bell voor contactloze toepassingen, is in goeden doen. ‘We zijn meer dan op schema’, zegt Anthony Belpaire, die aan het hoofd staat van de starter.

Betalen door telefoonzwaaien

Het Belgische Clear2pay en Touchatag, een onderdeel van Alcatel-Lucent, gaan samenwerken. Ze maken een systeem voor betaling door met een gsm te wuiven.

Touchatag in zee met Clear2Pay

Touchatag (Alcatel-Lucent) gaat samen met Clear2Pay een raamwerk rond mobiele betalingen opzetten.

Betalen door met je mobieltje te zwaaien

Touchatag is een nieuw intern bedrijf waarin netwerkspecialist Alcatel-Lucent zijn contactloze technologie ontwikkelt. De samenwerking met Clear2pay moet uitmonden in een betalingssysteem voor mobiele operatoren.

Touchatag werkt aan nieuw mobiel betalingssysteem

Met het systeem, dat zich richt op mobiele operators, zouden gebruikers met hun gsm diensten of producten kunnen betalen of geld naar elkaar overmaken. Naast het betalen moeten ook bijvoorbeeld virtuele klantenkaarten, kortingsbonnen en abonnementsvormen op de mobiel beschikbaar komen.

Touchatag, Clear2Pay develop m-payment framework

Alcatel-Lucent venture Touchatag has struck a deal with payment services provider Clear2Pay to create a mobile payment framework for mobile operators. Clear2Pay and Touchatag have created a payment and stored value account (SVA) service that enable merchants to accept POS transactions, collect and redeem loyalty points, issue gift cards, deliver electronic store receipts, set up interactive...

Review: Touchatag RFID System

You always remember your first time, right? That heady rush, the embarrassment that turns into passion, that sense that this, this moment right now, is what you’re living for. You could stay this way forever or die today - it didn’t matter. I think Bryan Adams said it best when he wrote:

I got my first real RFID sensing smartcard reader
Bought it on the Internet
...

Consumer Electronics 2.0: MIT's Henry Holtzman on The Internet of Things

Touchatag is another company to have impressed Holtzman, Chief Knowledge Officer of the MIT Media Lab. As we wrote in February, Touchatag allows you to program your own RFID tags so that they can do anything you want. Holtzman said that he's been very impressed by the decisions the company has made, for example using adhesives. He also likes their 'web 2.0 savvy' - they host everything, but...

Alcatel-Lucent outlines carriers’ role in contactless future

Wireless operators have realized by now the ways in which they could benefit from the increased emphasis being placed on wireless applications and services.

Touchatag's aim: RFID apps development made easier

Touchatag is the next phase in the continuing evolution of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. RFID has been used in a variety of applications such as warehouse inventory control. Motorists who have an EZ-Pass device on their car’s windshield for electronic toll payment are using RFID technology.

Track things in your office with RFID

Touchatag sells RFID sticker tags and readers at their online store. To use touchatag, just paste the RFID stickers onto your office items and connect the RFID reader to your PC via USB.

AlcaLu Gets Interesting

And then there's a partnership with PingPing. Just that name alone makes it worth checking out (it's part of the Belgacom SA (Euronext: BELG) empire).

Alcatel-Lucent démocratise l’utilisation des puces RFID auprès du grand public.

Alcatel-Lucent démocratise l’utilisation des puces RFID auprès du grand public. Son nouveau système Touchatag permet d’intégrer l’utilisation de la RFID dans la vie de tous les jours.

Touchatag Adds Business Apps

The renamed system has created applications allowing consumers and business people to quickly access information on their NFC-enabled phones.

Tikitag renamed Touchatag, adds QR codes to repertoire

Tikitag renamed Touchatag, adds QR codes to repertoire

Touchatag from Alcatel Lucent stood out.

Touchatag from Alcatel Lucent stood out. It was an RFID and 2D barcode service for the globe with its only reader shipping for EUR 30 and the chance to purchase instant RFID tags...