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
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- Smart Payment Association reports on new instant payments model that leverages existing bank card, merchant terminal and banking infrastructure
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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
MasterCard and Telefonica team up for major Latin America mobile payments project
The payments network and multi-national mobile network operator are to form a joint venture which will develop mobile financial solutions in the twelve countries in Latin America covered by Telefónica’s Movistar brand. More
Stanford researchers develop first Android NFC P2P apps
A team from Stanford’s MobiSocial lab has developed two applications for the Google Nexus S that use NFC’s peer-to-peer capabilty: A phone-to-phone file transfer service and a collaborative whiteboard. More
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Isis appoints head of marketing
Isis has appointed Ryan Hughes as its chief marketing officer, responsible for marketing the NFC mobile payments joint venture to merchants, advertisers and other businesses across the US, All Things Digital reports. More
Google poaches top payments exec Osama Bedier from PayPal
Osama Bedier, PayPal’s vice president of product development and a key player in the company’s move towards mobile payments, has joined Google. More
NFC Business Models report sets out strategies for success in the emerging mobile wallet wars
“The companies that succeed will be those that take the time to gain an understanding of the needs of each of the parties involved and then design an infrastructure that provides a win:win:win solution for all,” according to our new ‘NFC Business Models’ research report, which officially launches today. More
Orange and Barclaycard set date for UK’s first commercial NFC service
British consumers will be able to use NFC phones to make payments at stores across the country from the second quarter of this year, Barclaycard and Everything Everywhere have announced. More
Nexus S video: Android’s hidden NFC tag writing abilities revealed
An NFC development house in Argentina has discovered hidden code in Android 2.3 Gingerbread that enables the Google Nexus S to write to NFC tags as well as read them. More
Apple planning to offer merchants low cost NFC payments terminals?
The Apple NFC rumour mill has swung into action again today, with new speculation that the company plans to include near field communication in both the next iPhone and the next iPad — and could be planning to offer heavily subsidized or even free NFC payments terminals to merchants in a bid to kickstart a mobile payments service. More
MasterCard hires NFC expert Mung-Ki Woo as head of mobile
MasterCard Worldwide has hired Mung-Ki Woo as its new ‘group executive, mobile’. More
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NFC news in brief • 24 Jan 2011
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: MasterCard wins Oyster deal • PayPal nears 100m accounts • Proxama buys Hypertag • Palm tablets to include NFC? • Contactless grows in the UK • NTT Docomo, KT and China Mobile tie up. More
Starbucks ‘will continue to explore NFC’
Coffee giant Starbucks has announced that its mobile payment service, first introduced on a pilot basis in Seattle and Silicon Valley during September 2009, is to be rolled out across the US. More
Most French consumers not in favour of mobile payments
Despite plans for a major expansion of the high profile pre-commercial NFC trial in Nice and Orange’s ambitions to sell 500,000 NFC phones this year, a survey of French consumer attitudes has found that the majority are not in favour of using a phone to make payments. More
NFC Forum publishes transport ticketing white paper
The NFC Forum has published a white paper that provides an introduction to the potential uses and benefits of NFC technology in public transportation. More
Schmidt: Mobile money is a key part of Google’s strategy for 2011
Writing in the Harvard Business Review, Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt has explained that mobile money is one of three key areas of focus for Google in 2011. More
NFC medical platform to enable self-testing for pregnancy, fertility, pathogens, Aids, drugs, allergens and certain types of cancers
NFC phones will soon be used to self-test for a number of medical conditions, to automatically report on the status of patients with chronic health conditions and to monitor the health of those who have been recently discharged from hospital, says Dr John Peeters, founder of Gentag. More
NFC news in brief • 17 Jan 2011
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: LG bringing NFC phone to US? • No NFC yet for Sony Ericsson • ZTE works on NFC and biometrics • Signbox lights up NFC • LSE examines NFC privacy • New NFC solution for retailers • Intuit adds mobile payments acceptance. More
More than 30 job openings now available at Isis NFC joint venture
Isis, the joint venture between mobile network operators AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile which is set to introduce a commercial NFC service in the US from 2012, has posted more than thirty job vacancies on its website. More