The winning entries in this year’s NFC Forum Global Competition include retail payments, healthcare, education and social networking applications. More
- CWC sessions you may have missed: Transdev, Smart Payment Association, European Central Bank
- Transdev reports on hands-free transport ticketing pilot
- Smart Payment Association reports on new instant payments model that leverages existing bank card, merchant terminal and banking infrastructure
- European Central Bank reports on digital euro for Contactless World Congress
- Linxens reports on the market outlook for biometric cards, display cards, dynamic CVVs, sustainable substrates and more
‘We didn’t mean all smartphones would get NFC’, says Nokia
The Finnish mobile phone giant has backtracked on its headline-grabbing announcement and now says that only some smartphones will have NFC next year and they may not be available in all markets. More
Broadcom to enter NFC market, buys Innovision for $47.5m
Semiconductor giant Broadcom Corporation has announced it has agreed to acquire UK-based NFC specialist Innovision Research & Technology in a deal valued at US$47.5m. More
Nokia commits to an NFC future, but retailers are set to rebel
OPINION: The Finnish phone giant has become the first major manufacturer to commit to building NFC into its devices, with the announcement that all its new smartphones will come with the technology built-in from 2011. Just as one problem seems to have been solved, however, a new battlefield is now emerging in the retail payments space. More
All new Nokia smartphones to come with NFC from 2011
The announcement was made by a top Nokia executive at the Mobey Forum’s 10th anniversary meeting in Helsinki this morning. More
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French retailers begin the move to NFC loyalty programmes
Three retailers in Nice are using Fidbook, an NFC loyalty application that works with a simple reader costing under €100 and avoids the need to upgrade to a contactless payments terminal. More
“Government must force banks to cut excessive NFC and contactless transaction fees” say UK retailers
Debit card transactions cost four times more to process than cash payments, says the UK’s leading retail trade association, raising concerns that the move from cash to contactless debit cards and NFC phones will increase retailers’ overheads. More
NTT adds new mobile marketing capabilities to Japan’s Osaifu-Keitai mobile wallet service
NTT Communications has launched a new service that enables businesses to offer a range of mobile marketing services to users of Japan’s Osaifu-Keitai mobile wallet service. More
Innovision launches 512 byte NFC tag
Innovision Research & Technology has launched a new NFC tag with more than five times the memory of its existing NFC tag. Both are NFC Forum Type 1 tags and are, therefore, compatible with any NFC device. More
Orange France launches NFC time and attendance service
Business customers who purchase a Samsung S5230 NFC phone for their staff pay a flat fee each month to use the new Mobile et Badge service to track the time and attendance of field service workers such as security staff and cleaners. More
Gemalto provides KDDI with end-to-end NFC security solution
Gemalto has provided further details of the role it is playing in Japanese mobile network operator KDDI‘s extensive NFC field test, which went live last month. More
PTC, Inteligo and MasterCard test NFC payments in Poland
The 100 participants can use their Samsung NFC phones to make payments at any of 10,000 points of sale in Poland that are already equipped to handle PayPass contactless transactions. More
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China Unicom launches NFC payments service in Beijing
The Beijing branch of mobile network operator China Unicom has launched an NFC service in conjunction with Beijing Municipal Administration and Communications Card Co (BMAC). More
No NFC in iPhone 4G
Apple’s fourth generation iPhone sports a slew of new features but will not have built-in NFC capability. More
US Bank to test NFC in Q4 2010
US Bank is to run an NFC pilot from the fourth quarter of 2010, Brandon McGee reports from the Mobile Banking & Emerging Applications Summit in Las Vegas. More
One in five mobile phones to feature NFC by 2012
OPINION: Licensing deals signed by Innovision will see NFC functionality being built into 15% to 20% of the handsets shipped in 2012, says the company, as leading mobile phone chipset manufacturers look for low cost ways to add NFC into mass market mobile phones. More
Innovision signs $6m IP licensing deal
NFC chipset technology specialist Innovision has signed a licensing agreement with a “major global semiconductor corporation”. The unnamed semiconductor manufacturer will use Innovision’s Gem NFC intellectual property to build NFC functionality into high volume chipsets for mobile handsets and other consumer electronics products. More
Innovision unveils next-generation NFC phone technology
Adding NFC functionality to a mobile phone will soon cost less than a dollar, says Innovision’s Stephen Graham, with 15% to 20% of all the handsets shipped in 2012 set to include the company’s low-cost NFC technology. More
China Mobile to drop RF SIM in favour of NFC?
China’s largest mobile network operator is coming under pressure from MIIT, the national technology regulator, to join the Chinese banks and its two rival operators China Unicom and China Telecom in adopting a single, national mobile payments standard based on NFC standard technology. More
NXP adds NFC to carbon emissions tracking project
NXP has become the lead sponsor of the European Supply Chain Institute’s Supply Chain Carbon Council with the aim of promoting the use of RFID and NFC technology to track the carbon emissions footprint of manufactured products. More