Chinese SIM and smart card supplier Eastcompeace has announced that its RF SIM card has now been certified by the Ministry of Information Industry’s IC Card Quality Supervision Center. More
- NFC Forum certifies Cilab for TR13.1 wireless charging testing
- ST provides insight into using NFC tags to enhance consumer experiences
- NFC Forum adds certification for NFC wireless charging
- NP Plastibell adds ultra-miniaturised ST NFC tags to pre-filled syringes
- German luggage brand leverages NFC for product authentication and customer engagement
Apple planning role as mobile Trusted Service Manager?
A new patent application sees Apple using the term ‘trusted service’, hinting at the company’s potential to play a major role as a Trusted Service Manager for mainstream mobile applications and, perhaps, for mobile payments and NFC. More
Could PayPal bump NFC’s P2P ambitions into touch?
A new technology from US start-up Bump, which lets consumers use phones equipped with accelerometers to make peer-to-peer payments and share images or contact details, has been adopted by PayPal for its new Send Money service. More
China UnionPay begins major expansion of NFC project
The bank card association is conducting NFC pilots in Shanghai, Ningbo and Changsha and has extended its mobile payments services to a total of six provinces and regions. More
First Data to offer Tyfone’s SideTap NFC MicroSD cards, will run first trials in US from mid-2010
The cards “will be sold where consumers buy memory cards today, including retail merchants and major network operators as well as new locations such as mass transit kiosks and financial institution branch locations,” says First Data, and “SideTap MicroSD cards may also come pre-bundled in handsets.” More
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Banks get serious about NFC
OPINION: Interest in near field communication is gathering pace in the financial services sector, fuelled by the arrival of NFC-enabled microSD cards and a recognition that there is a business model to be found — so long as you look for it hard enough. More
Ericsson Labs adds QR code support to NFC and RFID tag developer tool
Ericsson Labs has upgraded Tag Tool, the set of developer tools for working with NFC and RFID tags first launched in November 2009. More
Barclaycard and Orange to launch commercial NFC service by the end of 2010
Card issuer Barclaycard and mobile network operator Orange are to launch a commercial NFC service in the UK before the end of 2010, a senior Barclaycard executive has revealed. Sarah Mansfield, Barclaycard’s head of innovation marketing, mentioned the plan in a presentation at a mobile marketing event organized by the Institute of Sales Promotion and Mobile Interactive Group, according to a report in Wireless Federation: More
Citi’s Bangalore trial: Offering cardholders phone subsidies can kickstart NFC transaction volumes
‘This pilot provides insights which will prove crucial to getting the customer experience right as we, together with the industry, bring next-generation mobile financial services to market,’ says Citi. More
DeviceFidelity signs up first licensees for its In2Pay NFC microSD solution
DeviceFidelity has signed up the first licensees for its microSD format NFC solution, UK mobile payments provider Monitise and US mobile solutions provider Ecrio, and has announced version 2 of its In2Pay product, adding support for EMV compliant payment applications and for Mifare ticketing applications. More
Tyfone to launch MicroSD NFC solution in second half of 2010
Pre-production test runs of its SideTap microSD format NFC solution have now been successfully completed, says Tyfone, and volume production will begin during the second half of this year. More
GlobalPlatform sets out branding guidelines for multi-application mobile wallets
The standards body’s new Contactless Services technical document sets out how a card issuer’s brand identity will be maintained within a consumer’s mobile wallet. More
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Wima unveils speakers for annual NFC conference and exhibition
The fourth annual Wima NFC event, to be held in Monaco from 20-22 April 2010, will include exhibitors from around the world plus conference streams and workshops focusing on both the technical and business issues surrounding near field communication. More
China Mobile confirms purchase of stake in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank
China Mobile has agreed to pay $5.8 billion for a 20% stake in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPD Bank), making the mobile network operator the second largest shareholder in the bank. More
NFC Forum adds 19 new members
Nineteen additional companies from fourteen countries have signed up to become members of the NFC Forum. More
Manila mobile commerce event to include NFC
The 3rd Mobile Commerce Summit Asia is to take place at the Crowne Plaza Galleria Manila Hotel on 23 to 26 March 2010. More
New: Worldwide NFC trials, tests and live services listed
A new page has been added to NFC World that makes it easy to discover details of all the NFC trials that are taking place in each country around the world. More
Blackboard adds NFC and contactless support to campus card system
Blackboard, which supplies campus card solutions to hundreds of higher education institutes, has launched a new contactless and NFC-compatible version of its Blackboard Transact card system, based on Sony FeliCa contactless technology. More
Belgian group reports on two year NFC voucher study
The results of a two year project investigating the potential of near field communication to replace meal vouchers, discounts coupons and gift vouchers have been released. More
White paper helps banks decide how to implement NFC services
The Mobey Forum has published a white paper designed to assist financial institutions in deciding what role to adopt in the mobile financial services value chain and to choose what kind of technical solutions will work best. More