Mobile chipset giant Qualcomm has announced that the next generation of its Snapdragon mobile chipset family will include support for near field communication... More
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Orange to offer Samsung Wave 578 NFC across Europe — but not in the UK
“With the availability of new NFC-enabled devices from Samsung, and many more from our other handset partners to come in 2011, we are moving closer to a world in which we believe mobile contactless services will soon become the norm,” says Orange’s EVP of mobile services. More
Samsung unveils second NFC phone: The Samsung Wave 578
Samsung has announced a second mobile phone equipped with near field communication functionality at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona... More
Samsung Galaxy S II will come with NFC — but only in some markets
The decision on whether or not the devices shipped into a particular country will be equipped with NFC will depend on “market requirement”, says Samsung. More
O2 UK commits to commercial NFC launch in second half of 2011
“My ambition would be to engage a very substantial proportion of the O2 customer base,” James Le Brocq, head of O2 UK’s financial services division, told NFC World, as the mobile network operator confirmed plans to launch commercial NFC services in the UK later this year. More
Gentag announces low-cost NFC/RFID phone
The US$119 GT-601 NFC handset is designed for “people who are concerned only with basic voice communication, mobile payments, social networks, and diagnostics using a low-cost mobile wireless device,” says Gentag. More
Inside Secure bids for share of Android NFC chip market
NFC and contactless chip specialist Inside Secure has begun the task of trying to convince the industry that NXP is not the only game in town when it comes to adding NFC functionality to Android mobile phones with the launch of version 4.2 of its open source NFC protocol stack. More
Japanese social network Mixi introduces NFC check-ins
Leading Japanese social network Mixi, which has more than 21 million members, has become the first social network to offer users the ability to check into locations using near field communication... More
Belgian banks and mobile operators to launch SMS and NFC mobile payments service in 2011
Belgium’s mobile network operators have joined forces with the country’s financial sector with the aim of introducing SMS and NFC based mobile payments by the end of 2011... More
Google adds more NFC features with Android 2.3.3
Google has released Android 2.3.3, an update to Android 2.3 Gingerbread specifically designed to add more NFC functionality to the operating system... More
French operators commit to deploying 1m NFC phones in 2011
France’s mobile network operators have formally committed to deploying one million NFC phones in 2011, under the Cityzi brand name... More
Visa Europe signs mobile payments partnership deal with Monitise
Visa Europe has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Monitise to develop and supply mobile payments services for Visa Europe’s member banks and financial institutions across Europe... More
Toshiba begins NFC SIM mass production
Toshiba has announced it has now completed testing of an NFC UIM, a user identity module that can be used in both CDMA2000 NFC phones and as a SIM card for GSM NFC phones, and is now ready to begin mass production... More
“Hacker” shows how to crack Starbucks mobile payments app
A Mobile Commerce Daily reader has shown the publication how the Starbucks coffee chain’s barcode-based mobile payments service can be hacked in just 90 seconds... More
KDDI, Softbank, SK Telecom begin testing joint NFC services for Japanese and Korean consumers
The three mobile network operators, who signed an NFC cooperation agreement in July 2010, are to begin testing a number of cross-border NFC services this month with the aim of launching commercial services by the end of 2011. More
NTT Docomo partners with Korea’s KT to switch to NFC at end of 2012
Mobile network operator NTT Docomo, the driving force behind Japan’s Osaifu-Keitai mobile wallet service, has confirmed that it will make the move to NFC standard technology from “around the end of 2012”, in partnership with Korea’s KT. More
NFC news in brief • 31 Jan 2011
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: Getyoo pings Belgacom • Mobey Forum expands • Clear2Pay goes to South Africa • Facebook takes the credit • Vancouver to go contactless • …and Philadelphia to follow • Airtel Money launch • CreditCall’s EMV ticketing kernel. More
LG to launch NFC payments terminals, interactive TVs and more
LG Electronics plans to launch a range of NFC-enabled B2B products in 2012, the vice president for business solutions at the company’s Home Entertainment division has told Reuters... More
Yapi Kredi Bank and Turkcell to launch NFC payments service using Visa’s iPhone add-on
A survey conducted by Visa Europe in the UK, Italy, Poland and Turkey in advance of the launch has found that 87% of iPhone users would be willing to attach an add-on to their phone in order to make mobile payments. More
Leaked roadmap shows CDMA NFC BlackBerry launch dates
BlackBerry tracking site CrackBerry has got hold of a confidential RIM presentation describing the company’s CDMA product introduction plans for 2011... More