Iconic London department store Harrods has become the exclusive UK stockist of the NFC BlackBerry phone co-produced by RIM and Porsche Design... More
Porsche BlackBerry NFC phone arrives at Harrods
Archive: Newswire
VeriFone sets out its plan for Point
VeriFone has completed its €600m acquisition of Point International, northern Europe’s largest provider of payment and gateway services and solutions for retailers and a supplier to PayPal’s NFC trial in Stockholm... More
GlobalPlatform and SIMalliance team up on NFC apps
GlobalPlatform and SIMalliance have announced they are to work together to create a standard way for mobile app developers to securely include calls to NFC secure elements from within their programs... More
Visa Europe: 2012 to be contactless tipping point
87% of contactless cardholders in the UK, Poland and Turkey believe contactless cards will be “instrumental in bringing mobile contactless payments to market in the near future,” according to Visa Europe‘s latest Contactless Barometer survey... More
Smartrac acquires NFC tag maker UPM RFID
UPM has sold its RFID and NFC business to leading RFID supplier Smartrac in exchange for shares in OEP Technologie, the majority shareholder in Smartrac... More
Akbank joins Turkcell NFC service
Turkish mobile network operator Turkcell has signed up a third bank for its Cep-T Cüzdan NFC payments service... More
Coca-Cola tests NFC advertising in Singapore
Coca-Cola has launched an NFC out-of-home advertising campaign in Singapore... More
Smart tests NFC payments in Manila
Smart Communications and Philippines bank BDO have conducted an NFC payments trial at the World Bazaar Festival in Manila... More
Estonian banks look into NFC
Estonia’s leading banks have begun work on an NFC research project in conjunction with mobile network operator EMT, part of the TeliaSonera group... More
LG launches Prada 3.0 smartphone with NFC
Prada and LG have unveiled a third iteration of their jointly created designer phone... More
Free Press files complaint with FCC over lack of Google Wallet on Verizon Galaxy Nexus
US consumer rights organisation Free Press has filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), urging it to investigate Verizon Wireless’ actions regarding Google Wallet... More
Panasonic to enter European market with NFC smartphone
Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic is to move into the European smartphone market with a ‘global model’ handset which looks likely to come with NFC... More
Intel upgrades NFC Forum membership
Intel has upgraded its membership of the NFC Forum from ‘Principal’ to ‘Sponsor’, the top level of membership... More
ACS launches NFC reader with LCD display, USB interface
Advanced Card Systems has launched a USB-connected NFC reader equipped with a two-line LCD screen... More
Vivotech powers Cubic EMV reader
Vivotech’s EMV and NFC payments software is now being used in Cubic Transportation Systems’ new Tri-Reader 3 contactless readers, after the two companies signed a licensing and development agreement in 2009... More
Zapa returns with €1.1m investment
Irish NFC specialist Zapa Technology, which ran into financial difficulties last month, is back in business with new investment led by technology entrepreneur Brendan McDonagh (pictured), who has become the company’s new CEO... More
NFC serves up badminton game
A multiplayer badminton game that uses smartphones to imitate racquets has been shown off by Indonesian developer Agate Studio... More
NXP launches NFC reader chip
NXP has introduced a multi-protocol, NFC-ready contactless transceiver chip that can be used in a wide range of banking, e-government, transport and mobile payment terminals and other devices... More
Gemalto gets NFC SIM certification
Gemalto has become the first smart card provider to get GlobalPlatform certification for an NFC SIM product, following the launch of GlobalPlatform’s compliance programme earlier this year... More
O2 expands Pilsen NFC project
Telefonica Czech Republic has launched the final phase of its two-year NFC trial in the city of Pilsen... More