The Russian telecoms giant has partnered with the NFC specialist to allow St Petersburg commuters to use their mobile phones to pay for their tickets, in the first stage of a planned national NFC service. More
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CorFire and InComm to provide retailers with NFC wallets
CorFire, the American arm of Korean NFC specialist SK C&C, and US prepaid card provider InComm are working together on a mobile payments and offers service that would compete with Isis and Google Wallet, Bloomberg reports:... More
Nokia and Jiepang demo NFC check-ins
Nokia has teamed up with China’s leading location-based service Jiepang to demonstrate NFC social check-in services... More
YouGov launches quarterly mobile payments survey
Market research firm YouGov has found 70% of British consumers haven’t heard of mobile wallets and 91% haven’t heard of NFC technology... More
MasterCard and ANZ launch New Zealand’s first NFC payment trial
Bank staff have been given contactless stickers or NFC-enabled microSD cards to enable mobile payments using MasterCard PayPass as the card giant puts its Australasian roadmap into operation. More
Visa strikes mobile payments deals with Fundamo and Monitise
The credit card giant has acquired mobile payments firm Fundamo and extended its deal with Monitise with the aim of making transactions on any device “safe, easy and reliable,” says Visa’s head of mobile. More
Korea drives ahead with plans for NFC leadership
Up to 300,000 NFC-enabled points of sale are set to be installed in South Korea and all smartphones must include NFC capabilities by the end of 2011, Reuters has reported... More
Hewlett-Packard planning NFC phones and tablets?
Hewlett-Packard is working on NFC-enabled mobile phones and tablet computers that would be marketed under the Palm brand name, “two people familiar with the company’s plans” have told Bloomberg... More
Kovio raises $15m to bring low-cost NFC tags to shops
Printed tag pioneer Kovio has raised US$15million in new equity financing led by Tyco Retail Solutions, a leading retail inventory and asset protection specialist... More
Korean coffee chain introduces NFC loyalty stamps
Korean coffee shop chain Caffé Bene has become the first merchant to introduce an NFC-based coupon system that provides customers with a loyalty ‘stamp’ each time they visit, Korea Times reports... More
eCoupled combines NFC and wireless charging
Fulton Innovation has added NFC communications capability to its eCoupled wireless charging technology... More
Barclaycard launches TV ad for NFC payment service
Barclaycard has reworked its rollercoaster ride TV advertisement to promote the NFC payments system it launched last month with Orange... More
Nokia video shows high speed, high capacity tag technology
Nokia Research Center has released a video touting a high-speed data transfer system that allows mobile phones to interact with high capacity tags at up to 100Mbits per second... More
Juniper: NFC payments to hit $50bn in three years
NFC mobile contactless payment transactions will reach nearly US$50bn worldwide by 2014, according to market forecasters Juniper Research... More
FaceCash adds NFC to barcode payments system
Mobile payments provider Think Computer has added NFC support to its FaceCash Wallet mobile barcode payment system... More
NFC room keys find favour with hotel guests
Guests at the Clarion Hotel Stockholm said using an NFC-enabled phone to check in, enter their room and check out made their stay more pleasant, saved time and inspired them to use the service again. More
One in four US consumers ready to buy groceries with NFC phones
The level of positive responses to a new survey of US consumer attitudes to NFC mobile payments represents a “significant volume… beyond the level we’d call early adopters”, says Compete. More
Korean national NFC alliance aims to create a billion dollar business opportunity
Korean mobile network operators, card issuers, consumer electronics manufacturers and government organisations have formed the Grand NFC Korea Alliance with the aim of creating a US$1bn business opportunity and more than 5,000 jobs. More
700m to use mobile money in emerging markets by 2015
More than 700 million people in emerging markets around the world will be using mobile money services in 2015, new research from Berg Insight suggests, as the market grows 40% a year from 2010’s 133m users... More
France set for commercial NFC services to begin in spring 2012
Technical specifications have been finalised, the French government is providing €20m to promote the adoption of NFC services and four mobile network operators and four banks have announced they will deploy NFC services nationally in the spring of 2012. More