RFinity in the News

• 08/06/2010
  BYU-Idaho Store Pilots Phone Payment Method Every college store is on the lookout for the next “big thing.” For the University Store, Brigham Young University-Idaho, Rexburg, it came in the form of a pilot program to test a mobile phone payment system.
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• 7/20/2010
  M-Payment Start-Up Trades MicroSDs for Passive Stickers U.S.-based mobile-payment start-up RFinity is adopting passive-contactless stickers for its payment project in and around a university campus in Idaho, changing an earlier plan to expand its pilot using contactless microSD cards.
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• 7/15/2010
  RFinity expands BYU-Idaho University NFC pilot to local stores and shoppers RFinity has signed a deal with Citizens Community Bank that sees its NFC payment trial at Brigham Young University's Idaho campus expanded to include both non-University students and off-campus merchants.
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• 5/4/2010
  RFinity Wins Contactless Intelligence’s Monkey Award for Trailblazing and Innovation RFinity, a technology company specializing in secure near field communication (NFC) mobile payment transactions, has received Contactless Intelligence’s (CI) prestigious Monkey Award for Trailblazing and Innovation.
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• 4/23/2010
  Meet the Monkey Awards Nominees – Trailblazing & Innovation This is it – the last award category; Trailblazing and Innovation. This award is granted to those companies who the judges feel have done their best to look at this wonderful (and whacky!) world of contactless technology and give it a boost.
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• 3/29/2010
  Idaho Falls Tech Company Gains International Recognition Idaho Falls-based RFinity, is gaining international attention for its specialized secure near field communications mobile payment transactions system.
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• 3/25/2010
  RFinity Nominated for Contactless Intelligence’s Monkey Award for Trailblazing and Innovation RFinity, a technology company specializing in secure near field communications (NFC) mobile payment transactions, has been nominated by Contactless Intelligence (CI) for its Monkey Award in the category of Trailblazing and Innovation.
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• 3/17/2010
  RFinity reaching community next week Rexburg may have a new untapped technology on the campus of BYU–Idaho. It is RFinity, the new mobile payment method.
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• 2/15/2010
  BYU students take first crack at replacing ID card with mobile phone At Brigham Young University-Idaho in Rexburg, 120 students and faculty members are using their cell phones to make payments in the campus bookstore. The mobile technology startup, RFinity, developed the secure solution using microSD cards with Near Field Communication capabilities to enable contactless payments with the devices.
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• 1/26/2010
  RFINITY - 'Cell phones will replace credit cards' A technology developed at the INL is making it possible to securely swipe your cell phone just like a credit card.
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• 9/8/2009
  RFinity Set to Launch Pilot of the World’s First Open Encryption Platform at Brigham Young University-Idaho RFinity, a technology company specializing in secure Near Field Communication (NFC) identification and transactions, is preparing to launch a pilot of the world’s first open encryption platform using a secure microSD card with contactless interface developed by Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), an international security technology company. The pilot will begin September 4, 2009 on the campus of Brigham Young University–Idaho (BYU-I).
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• 9/16/2009
  BYU-Idaho students spend, spend, spend with their NFC phones Initial feedback from the newly launched NFC payments trial at BYU-Idaho, first announced in July, indicates that the one hundred university students and faculty taking part in the pilot are more than willing to use their phones to make payments.
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• 7/29/2009
  Brigham Young University to test new NFC microSD solution Students at BYU-Idaho will begin testing an NFC microSD solution from Rfinity in September.
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• 7/28/2009
  Buy it with your phone RFINITY’s specialized phone cards will allow users to buy things from other RFINITY-enabled customers.
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• 7/25/2009
  RFinity On YouTube Idaho National Laboratory Posted RFinity R&D 100 video on YouTube.
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• 7/24/2009
  Idaho College to Test Secure NFC Phone Module Brigham Young University students will try out RFinity's microSD NFC card, installed in handsets, to purchase items at the school's bookstore and make encrypted peer-to-peer transactions.
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• 7/20/2009
  RFinity Receives 2009 R&D Award for Mobile Encryption Technology (Business Wire) IDAHO FALLS, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RFinity, a newly formed technology company specializing in secure NFC transactions, was selected as a recipient of the 2009 R&D 100 Award for its Mobile Open-Encryption Platform by an independent judging panel and editors of R&D magazine.
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• 7/20/2009
  2009 R&D 100 AWARDS RFinity has been selected as one of the 2009 R&D 100 Award winners. Here's the award list.
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• 6/17/2009
  Outlook for Mobile Payment Market? Consolidation The consolidation in the mobile payment market that we outlined recently is still on.
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• 5/26/2009
  Starting Up in a Down Economy Venture capital investments are down and many financial institutions are struggling. But security entrepreneurs Doug Camplejohn, Aaron Turner and Mike Rothman say if the idea is good, the time is right to launch a company.
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• 4/28/2009
  RFinity launches near-field-enabled mobile payment system Idaho Falls, Idaho-based startup RFinity is launching an offering that combines near-field transactions, mobile payment, and strong authentication and cryptography on mobile phones that it claims can be used for person-to-person and person-to-vendor transactions, as well as other utilitarian tasks, such as college campus payments, hotel payment and room-access, and event ticketing and sales.
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