Sony and secure identity specialist HID Global have launched a contactless smart card reader platform that can add NFC and secure access control to laptop PCs and other mobile devices... More
Shoppers at more than 65 Gap Inc stores in San Francisco’s Bay Area can now use Google Wallet to pay for purchases and collect rewards and offers... More
VeriFone has acquired electronic payments specialist Point International from Nordic Capital for €600m (US$812m) as the POS terminal maker accelerates its transition to a managed services revenue model... More
Sony has announced the FeliCa Lite-S chip, a smaller, faster and more secure update to its low cost FeliCa Lite chip for NFC tags and stickers... More
Retailers Sears and Kmart are selling toys through QR-coded ‘shopping walls’ this holiday season... More
The HTC Edge may be the most powerful smartphone to date and will include NFC, according to a report from BGR about the as-yet unannounced phone... More
Jamba Juice‘s VP of information technology has explained to Nation’s Restaurant News why the California-based beverage chain decided to accept Google Wallet... More
LG’s latest designer handset comes with NFC and has just passed through FCC approval in the US... More
POS terminal maker Verifone has bought mobile retail specialist Global Bay... More
London-based mobile ticketing specialist Masabi has raised US$4m in Series B funding from M8 Capital to support a move into NFC and expansion to the US... More
Smart card and secure element specialist Aconite has launched an NFC mobile application manager aimed at secure NFC service providers such as banks, transportation operators and card personalisation agencies... More
US ad agency Digitas has opened a mobile retail showcase in Boston to teach clients how to use mobile to attract and keep customers... More
Identity and credential management provider Intercede is to demonstrate an NFC version of its MyID security system at the Smart Card Alliance Government Conference in Washington DC this week... More
Pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson has installed NFC smart posters at its High Wycombe offices in the UK... More
Google, Sprint and Samsung are taking Google Wallet across the US on a five city roadshow that will allow consumers to test out the NFC service in selected retail stores... More
The first 1,000 copies of a The Impulse Economy: Understanding Mobile Shoppers and What Makes Them Buy, a new book by Gary Schwartz, chairman of the US chapter of the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) and CEO of Impact Mobile, are to ship with NFC stickers on their front covers... More
EA Games has taken over eighteen outdoor media panels near the UK’s busiest railway station for the launch of its latest blockbuster game, Battlefield 3 — and several feature NFC... More
NFC could be used to add efficiency to the dating process, Hans Reisgies of Sequent Software suggested at the NFC Summit at 4G World... More
Mobile test equipment specialist Comprion’s UT3 platform for single wire protocol (SWP) and host controller interface (HCI) NFC conformance testing has been approved by the Global Certification Forum (GCF)... More
Lipton Ice Tea has begun testing NFC at Sydney University, with ads featuring tags that students tap with their NFC-enabled phones to ‘like’ the Lipton Ice Tea Facebook page... More