Pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson has installed NFC smart posters at its High Wycombe offices in the UK... More
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Clear Channel brings NFC to London’s Oxford Street
One hundred locations in central London’s busiest streets are to be equipped with digital advertising displays that include 72-inch HD screens and NFC. More
Three: UK mobile operators’ NFC joint venture “raises serious competition concerns”
“Competition authorities in Brussels should not allow this type [of] collaboration to go forward under any circumstances,” says Three, which was not invited to be part of the UK project. “We’re asking the Commission to take a clear view of what is at stake for consumers and the dangerous precedent this move could set across Europe.” More
NFC marketers form global alliance
NFC specialists Blue Bite, Proxama and Tapit have formed an alliance that will see them working together to deliver global NFC-based marketing solutions. More
Museum of London adds NFC
Visitors to the museum can find out more about particular exhibits, access vouchers, book tickets and connect via social media. More
Transport for London to accept NFC payments from 2012
TfL has agreed to relax its transaction speed requirements to allow payments on London’s bus and underground network to be made via NFC phones and contactless cards from next year — and expects faster NFC phones and contactless cards to arrive in the near future. More
Proxama unveils NFC Murder Mystery game
The hi-tech version of a traditional murder mystery game uses NFC phones and tags to allow participants to discover clues hidden around a venue and to accuse their choice of suspect. More
Orange to introduce first international NFC payments service
From this summer, subscribers to the UK’s Quick Tap NFC service will be able to use their phones to make payments in Nice, home of the French Cityzi NFC service. More
UK mobile operators form NFC joint venture
Everything Everywhere, which runs the Orange and T-Mobile networks in the UK, Vodafone and Telefónica O2 have agreed to establish a joint venture company that “will deliver the technology required for the speedy adoption of mobile wallet and payments.” More
Starbucks UK set to accept NFC payments
Starbucks has signed a deal with Barclaycard, in partnership with Visa Europe, to bring contactless and NFC mobile payments to its UK coffee shops... More
X-Men movie to get NFC smart poster campaign in London
Smart posters are to be distributed around central London to promote the latest X-Men film, enabling NFC phone users to download an exclusive trailer and connect with the movie’s Facebook page. More
UK gets first commercial NFC service with Quick Tap from Orange and Barclaycard
Consumers can use the new service to make payments of up to £15 via a prepaid cash replacement application stored on their Quick Tap NFC phone. Tag read and write functions are also available and both loyalty and transport ticketing applications will be introduced later. More
O2 UK picks suppliers for NFC mobile wallet launch
Mobile network operator O2 UK, part of the Telefonica group, has announced Wave Crest, FIS, Intelligent Environments and Visa Europe as the suppliers for the mobile wallet service it plans to launch during the second half of 2011... More
Lloyds TSB named partner bank for Olympic Games mobile payments
The UK bank joins Samsung and Visa to provide NFC-enabled phone payments at next year’s London Olympic Games, as it prepares to roll out a broader mobile contactless payments programme for consumers. More
McDonald’s UK goes contactless, considers NFC loyalty programmes
McDonald’s will have installed contactless point-of-sale terminals in all its restaurants in the UK by the end of this month, Mark Fabes, the fast food giant’s UK IT director, has revealed... More
Samsung and Visa to bring NFC payments to the London 2012 Olympics
The phone manufacturer and payments network, both Worldwide Olympics Sponsors, are to enable athletes and visitors at the London 2012 Olympics to make payments using a special Samsung Olympic and Paralympic Games mobile handset. 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
Majority of Britons ‘uncomfortable’ with mobile device payments
More than half of UK consumers are distinctly uncomfortable with the idea of contactless payments made through their mobile device, according to new research... More
UK to get five ‘exclusively NFC payment-based towns’ by end 2011
The UK’s mobile network operators are working on plans to establish five exclusively NFC payment-based towns, where all card accepting merchants would be equipped with contactless point of sale terminals, Charlotte Blanchard, director of products and services at mobile network operator 3, has told IT PRO... More
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