The high profile check-in service has its eyes fixed on the potential of near field communication, coverage of the company’s entry into the mobile rewards business this week has revealed. More
Foursquare adds merchant rewards, tests NFC
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NFC news in brief • 7 March 2011
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: Norwegians ready to ditch cash • Airtag raises €4m • Cassis signs TSM deals • Intel invests in NFC firm • NEC introduces NFC POS device • AT&T adds ShopAlerts • Square hits $1m a day More
Access introduces combined NFC and 2D barcode airline boarding pass reader
Access Interfacing Solutions has launched a boarding gate reader which is able to handle boarding passes stored in NFC mobile phones and in contactless cards as well as standard printed boarding passes and those displayed on a mobile handset as a 2D barcode... More
Mobile Tag launches mobile barcode and NFC marketing platform, raises €6.6m
Mobile barcode specialist Mobile Tag has added support for NFC to its 1D and 2D mobile barcode marketing platform, enabling marketers to use a single platform to deliver marketing campaigns using a full range of 2D barcode options (QR-Codes, Datamatrix, Flashcode or Fotokody), 1D barcodes (EAN or UPC) and NFC tags... More
Alcatel-Lucent video shows Nexus S acting as POS terminal and payments device
Alcatel-Lucent‘s Touchatag team has produced a video demonstrating the use of a Google Nexus S as both a POS terminal and as a payments device... More
NXP adds NFC TagWriter app to Android Market
Semiconductor supplier NXP, manufacturer of the NFC chip used in the Google Nexus S, has made an NFC tag writing application available to download free of charge from Android Market... More
AT4 Wireless and Collis to provide full range of NFC test solutions
AT4 Wireless and Collis have teamed up to jointly offer a full range of NFC and mobile payments test solutions... More
NFC Forum approves Clear2Pay’s Integri NFC test solution
The NFC Forum has approved a second NFC test equipment solution, the Integri NFC Test Solution from Clear2Pay ... More
Touchatag NFC tag platform now available on Android phones
Touchatag, the NFC tag application platform developed by Alcatel-Lucent, is now available as a downloadable app for Android NFC phones from Android Market... More
Transport for London confirms plans to accept contactless cards in time for Olympics
London is to be the first city in the world to convert its entire public transport network to accepting contactless payment cards, Transport for London has announced... More
Bank of America adds BlackBerry phones to NFC trial
BoyGeniusReport has revealed details of a new invitation-only NFC payments trial to be conducted by Bank of America... More
TazTag aims TazPad NFC Android tablet at retail
Taztag’s new TazPad is the first Android tablet to feature NFC connectivity, along with the company’s trademark array of other wireless connection technologies and a biometric authentication option. More
10% of Japanese consumers made a purchase with their mobile wallet in December
Analysis by Comscore for its 2010 Mobile Year in Review has found that just under 10% of Japanese mobile subscribers made a purchase with their mobile wallet during December 2010... More
GSMA video shows NFC in action in Nice
Mobile network operators’ association the GSMA has produced a video showing near field communication phones in action in the French city of Nice, where mobile operators have been conducting an NFC trial under the Cityzi brand name... More
O2 Money seeks UK senior product manager
O2 Money has a vacancy for a senior product manager... More
Ideo concept shows how RFID tags could be used in the music industry
Design consultancy Ideo has developed a concept music player that uses cards embedded with RFID tags to generate music playlists... More
Stanford researchers demonstrate NFC TV applications
Researchers from Stanford University‘s MobiSocial lab, who last month demonstrated the first Android NFC peer-to-peer applications, have now developed a number of applications which show how NFC could be used to interact with TVs:... More
Powermat aims to combine NFC and wireless charging technologies
Israeli wireless charging specialist Powermat has developed an antenna that supports both near field communication and wireless charging, Forbes reports:... More
Tata Docomo to test NFC self-service kiosks in Hyderabad
Consumers can access up to eighteen different services from each self-serve kiosk to top up airtime, pay bills, download ringtones and more. More
Deutsche Telekom details T-Mobile NFC rollout plans
NFC services will begin in Germany and Poland in 2011 and in the US, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic in 2012. In Germany, the operator looks set to offer its own payments service but in other countries it will partner with other operators or with banks, depending on market conditions. More