The Hotel Sky Park Central in Seoul, Korea, has implemented an NFC-based smart guest room solution developed by LG CNS... More
Seoul hotel provides guests with NFC keys
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Crosscliq delivers NFC magazine ad for BlackBerry, Rogers and CIBC
An NFC-enabled advert has been included in the latest issue of a Canadian mobile operator’s customer magazine... More
Frost & Sullivan: NFC to account for half of Europe’s mobile payments
NFC payments will account for 42.3% of all mobile payments made in Europe in 2015, according to new figures released by Frost & Sullivan... More
Sony and Watchdata team up on NFC
Watchdata is to add support for Sony FeliCa contactless technology to its range of SIMpass NFC add-ons... More
The Mobile Wallet Report: PayPal takes its digital wallet overseas, biometrics gain ground and marketers flock to Apple Passbook
In the December edition of Mobile Wallet Outlook, the NFC World team examines the resurgence of interest in using fingerprint verification at the point of sale, the innovative new services being built on top of Apple’s Passbook mobile wallet and the latest consumer adoption surveys. Our first “spot report” takes an in-depth look at PayPal’s digital wallet and in-store payments strategy and asks whether the online payments giant can succeed in crossing the online-offline divide. More
MasterCard buys into NFC wallet provider C-Sam
MasterCard has signed a strategic partnership agreement with C-Sam and also acquired a minority shareholding in the NFC mobile wallet and transaction platform provider... More
Proxama opens US office
UK-based NFC specialist Proxama is expanding overseas with the opening of an office in the US... More
London buses now accept contactless payments
Public transportation users in London can now pay their fare with a contactless credit, debit or charge card on any of the city’s 8,500 buses... More
Video shows BlackBerry 10 L-Series with NFC
A video has emerged that appears to show RIM’s first BlackBerry 10 device and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it has NFC... More
Mocapay adds wallet API
Mocapay has launched a platform that enables merchants to add mobile wallet capabilities to their mobile apps via a single API... More
Turkcell taps Timwe
Turkish mobile network operator Turkcell is using Timwe’s NFC Launcher tag platform in its NFC home shopping service, available to users of its MaxiPlus5 NFC phone... More
CIBC picks G&D for NFC
Canada’s CIBC bank has picked Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) as the trusted service manager for its rollout of NFC payments with Rogers Wireless... More
MoSoCo picks Sequent for NFC payments, marketing and loyalty platform
Mobile solutions specialist MoSoCo has chosen Sequent as its trusted service management (TSM) provider for the introduction of a cloud-based mobile loyalty, marketing and prepaid card processing service for Polish retailers... More
Chinese carriers’ NFC plans emerge
China Mobile, the country’s largest mobile operator, has reached agreements with subway and bus companies in 30 cities to allow users to make payments through mobile phones next year, reports Caixin Online... More
iCaisse finds email security role
Good Technology’s Good Vault enterprise email security solution for iPhones can now use a sleeve from DeviceFidelity to hold a microSD card as part of its two factor authentication scheme... More
Christmas app conjures up Santa with an NFC tap
US NFC developer TeamProjectsOnly has come up with a hi-tech and festive way to reward children for good behaviour in the run up to Christmas, using NFC phones and tags. More
PragmatIC starts production
UK start up PragmatIC Printing has begun mass producing its printed logic circuits for the first time... More
TapMyBiz adds NFC cards
Israeli start up TapMyBiz can now supply customised NFC business cards over the web... More
HP’s Elitebook Revolve notebook to come with NFC
HP’s latest business tablet, which transforms “with a flick of the wrist” from an ultrathin notebook to a touch-enabled tablet, includes NFC... More
GSMA to showcase NFC at Mobile World Congress
NFC use cases are to feature heavily at the 2013 Mobile World Congress as well as around the host city, Barcelona, during the February 2013 event... More