Trading card maker Topps is using NFC tags and QR codes to promote its baseball cards at the 2013 MLB All-Star FanFest event, enabling the more than 100,000 attendees to touch or scan giant baseball cards featuring Major League Baseball All-Stars for a chance to win a range of prizes... More
Toshiba has unveiled an NFC controller that enables multiple concurrent connections with three different secure elements — “allowing manufacturers to design NFC-enabled applications before the SE for the transaction system is determined.”... More
Oberthur Technologies’ Pearl NFC embedded secure element is included in Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone, Oberthur has announced... More
Sony has unveiled the SmartWatch 2, a device that is designed to act as a second screen for Android smartphones and offers a range of additional conveniences — including NFC pairing and sharing... More
The carrier and financial services provider have signed up to the NFC standards association as principal members, Smartrac has upgraded to principal level and thirteen other organisations have joined for the first time. More
NFC World’s “Tap-to-Shop: NFC in Retailing” webinar is now available to view online... More
Tap-to-shop: NFC in Retailing, the next event in NFC World’s free educational webinar series, will be held from 14:00 to 15:00 BST on Tuesday 18 June... More
UK-based Wooshping has shown how bands can use NFC tags to allow fans to add their music to Spotify playlists, so just tapping a smart poster can start a track playing... More
Taiwan-based PQI Group has demonstrated an NFC-enabled memory stick at Computex 2013... More
Oberthur Technologies has partnered with HID Global to enable the access control specialist’s Seos digital keys to be stored on Oberthur’s DragonFly NFC SIMs... More
A new variant of the Samsung Galaxy S4 looks more like a point-and-shoot camera than a smartphone and offers enhanced photographic capabilities along with NFC... More
SoftBank Mobile has selected Gemalto as its trusted service manager for the commercial launch of NFC services in Japan... More
Elecom has launched a compact Bluetooth speaker that pairs with smartphones and tablets via NFC... More
Readers of a biography of former Nokia chief technology officer Yrjö Neuvo can access multimedia content by tapping an NFC tag inside the book’s back cover with their phones... More
Taiwan-based Mitac International has unveiled two Android-based rugged mobile POS terminals... More
NBS Technologies’ Xpressi Trusted Service Manager platform can now be used to provision financial card data onto NFC phones containing Inside Secure’s VaultSecure embedded secure elements... More
Retail technology provider IQmetrix has added support for Isis NFC payments to its RQ4 retail management system, which supports POS, CRM and inventory management functions as well as HR and accounting... More
Asus has launched NFC Express, an external accessory for PCs that makes it easy to pair desktop computers and Android NFC phones and tablets so users can share data between devices and use their mobile phone as a remote control for their PC... More
Dell has announced a range of updates and upgrades to its consumer and commercial PC portfolio at Computex 2013, including the addition of NFC functionality to its XPS 12 convertible Ultrabook, Engadget reports... More
Attendees at Computex 2013, the technology trade show taking place in Taiwan this week, are able to use their NFC phones as ID badges... More