The April edition of Wired magazine, now available on US newsstands, includes an advertisement for the 2013 Lexus GS that incorporates an NFC tag... More
Wired publishes Lexus NFC ad
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Escher to provide NFC services to postal organisations
Escher Group, a provider of transaction processing solutions for the postal industry, has formed a new NFC division... More
Sharp adds 10-inch Android NFC tablet
Sharp Japan has launched a 10.1″ Android NFC tablet, expanding on the 7-inch tablet with NFC capabilities it unveiled last year... More
Cellcom and ICC-Cal to launch NFC in Israel?
Israeli mobile network operator Cellcom is set to launch an NFC payments service in collaboration with Israel Credit Cards Ltd (ICC-Cal) in the next few weeks, sources have told business publication Globes... More
GSMA showcases mobile keys
The GSM Association has produced a video introduction to NFC mobile keys that shows how the technology can bring benefits beyond those offered by traditional keys... More
Poken moves to Silicon Valley with $2m investment
NFC gadget and marketing platform provider Poken has announced a US$2M investment round led by Swisscom Ventures and Credit Suisse... More
NFC Quick Actions app clocks up 3,000 downloads
NFC application NFC Quick Actions has now been downloaded from Android Market more than 3,000 times, developer Fernando Cejas has told NFC World... More
NFC is still two to five years away, say MWC visitors
A survey of mobile industry executives conducted for Sybase 365 during the Mobile World Congress has found that 81% of respondents believe that NFC will not become a driver of widespread adoption of mobile payments for at least another two to five years and less than 10% think NFC mobile payments will become mainstream within the next year... More
Assurant: Consumers need guarantees for mobile payments
A study by risk management specialist and insurer Assurant Solutions, based on consumer surveys conducted in Argentina, China, the United States, Germany and Spain, has found that willingness to conduct mobile transactions of all types increases markedly when the transaction is protected or guaranteed... More
Alix: US consumers want banks to provide digital wallets
74% of US consumers interested in having a digital wallet would choose their primary bank as their preferred provider, an AlixPartners survey has found, compared with 23% who say they would pick PayPal and 15% who chose Google as their preferred provider... More
Isis unveils merchant logo
A new video released by US NFC venture Isis provides the first look at the logo the company plans to use to indicate to consumers that a merchant is ‘Isis ready’ — meaning that it can process Isis offers and loyalty points as well as contactless payments via cards and NFC phones... More
UK NFC JV files with Brussels
The NFC joint venture between three UK mobile network operators has now filed for approval with the EU to go ahead with the scheme, code named ‘Project Oscar’, the Guardian reports, despite on-going objections from excluded carrier Three... More
Apple starts beaming with WiFi
Apple’s iPhoto for iOS application, announced this week at the iPad launch, includes a feature to ‘beam’ photos to other iOS devices... More
Turkcell signs up 50k wallet users
Turkcell now has 50,000 active users of its Cep-T Cüzdan NFC mobile wallet service, the Turkish carrier’s Ergi Şener has told NFC World, and plans to expand the service to include mobile coupon and loyalty services in the near future... More
NFC testing specialists Soliatis and Raisonance merge
Testing and certification specialists Raisonance and Soliatis have merged to form a new company called Keolabs that will offer end-to-end testing and certification solutions for smart cards and secure components on a global basis... More
Apple awarded payments tracking patent
Apple has been granted US patent number 8,127,962 for ‘Parental Controls’, a wide ranging system for tying together multiple subsidiary accounts within a mobile wallet application... More
NXP demonstrates NFC washing machine
NXP demonstrated a washing machine equipped with both RFID and NFC sensors at the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany last week... More
Marvell adds NFC to WiFi chips
WiFi chip maker Marvell has announced its first NFC combo chip products... More
Logic Group to provide NFC shopping solutions to European retailers
Customer interaction solutions specialist The Logic Group has signed a deal with Vivotech to introduce integrated NFC solutions to retailers in Europe... More
Toronto and Montreal to get NFC advertising
Astral Media, one of the largest media firms in Canada, is adding NFC to its street furniture in Toronto and Montreal... More