The city of Barcelona, which is already converting to mobile contactless payments, also plans to introduce NFC for public transportation ticketing, the city council has announced... More
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Toronto and Montreal to get NFC advertising
Astral Media, one of the largest media firms in Canada, is adding NFC to its street furniture in Toronto and Montreal... More
UK NFC JV heads to Brussels
Everything Everywhere, Vodafone and O2 will be submitting their plans for a UK-based NFC joint venture to regulators in Brussels next week, the Financial Times reports... More
LG unveils two more NFC phones
LG has announced two more Android smartphones that come with NFC... More
Germany’s B+S Card Service adopts VeriFone UAP
German payments processor B+S Card Service has adopted VeriFone’s PayWare TCS, part of the POS terminal maker’s new Paymedia UAP platform which enables merchant terminals to be remotely updated with the ability to process new types of payments services... More
RIM shows Porsche 911 with NFC at Mobile World Congress
A Porsche 911 that features NFC pairing functionality is on show at the BlackBerry stand at this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona... More
Morpho adds NFC-on-a-SIM
ID technology provider Morpho is to offer Inside Secure’s new NFC-on-a-SIM technology to its customers under the Morpho SIMply NFC-Revolution brand name... More
Nokia adds BH-221 NFC headset
Nokia has released a new stereo Bluetooth headset which includes NFC pairing as well as an integrated FM radio and OLED display... More
StumbleUpon adds P2P NFC
A new version of content discovery platform StumbleUpon’s Android app includes support for Google’s NFC peer-to-peer Android Beam technology, allowing users with an Android 4.0 NFC phone to share content they discover with other NFC phone users... More
Chile explores m-transit
Chile’s Minister of Transport and Telecommunications is attending the Mobile World Congress this week to investigate the potential for introducing mobile transportation ticketing within the next few months, Chilean publication Emol reports... More
Gemalto adds NFC LTE support
Gemalto has announced Advanced Connectivity, an end-to-end solution for delivering and activating M2M, NFC and streaming multimedia content applications over LTE networks... More
MasterCard certifies iPhone NFC solution
DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay iCaisse4 device has become the first NFC solution for Apple iPhones to be certified by MasterCard, allowing it to be used in commercial mobile PayPass deployments... More
Gemalto adds FeliCa to NFC SIM
Gemalto has signed a deal with Sony that will see it adding support for Sony’s FeliCa contactless card technology to its new Upteq NFC SIM technology... More
Telecom Italia to test NFC in Milan
The Italian mobile network operator is to work with French technology cluster Pole SCS on the development of a range of innovative NFC services which will be introduced first in the city of Milan from later this year. More
Panasonic unveils second NFC phone
Panasonic has announced a second Eluga smartphone with support for NFC... More
Nokia 808 PureView to come with NFC
Nokia has announced the Nokia 808 PureView smartphone, a Symbian Belle device that features advanced imaging technology and support for secure NFC services as well as for pairing and tag reading applications... More
Chase picks Gemalto for NFC
The announcement earlier today of a deal between Chase and carrier-led NFC joint venture Isis is just the start of the US banking giant’s NFC plans, the company has revealed... More
Orange to launch first Intel NFC phone
Mobile network operator Orange has announced it will be the first operator in Europe to offer subscribers an Intel-powered smartphone... More
Shazam shares music with NFC
A new version of Shazam, the media discovery app used by 180m people around the world, will allow Android phone users to share music, TV ads, tour dates, coupons and more via NFC. More
Gemalto launches high security NFC SIM
The new UpTeq NFC SIM meets a flight of top level security requirements and, says the digital security firm, can be used to generate legally binding digital signatures as well as deliver both e-health and e-government services. More