A survey conducted for location-based mobile media company JiWire has found that 53% of Americans and 69% of Brits are now willing to share their location in exchange for receiving more relevant mobile promotions and content... More
Archive: Newswire
KSI puts NFC into keyboards
High-end custom keyboard supplier Key Source International has announced a new device with an option to include NFC technology... More
ABI: 85% of POS terminals to support contactless payments in 2016
85% of terminals shipped worldwide will be contactless-enabled in 2016, driven by increased proliferation of contactless cards and, especially, rapid adoption of NFC-enabled cell phones, ABI Research predicts... More
No Nokia N9 NFC phone for UK or USA
The Nokia N9, a Meego-powered smartphone with NFC capabilities announced in June, will not be available in the UK, Nokia has told The Telegraph... More
Wiseleap adds NFC to Evernote
Montreal-based start-up Wiseleap has added NFC functionality to popular note-taking app Evernote... More
HTC applies for Closeconnect NFC trademark
Handset maker HTC is preparing for its introduction of NFC by filing for a trademark for the word ‘Closeconnect’, BGR reports... More
ABI: Chinese NFC payments could top $8bn by 2014
More than US$8bn in transactions could be conducted in China using NFC phones by 2014, according to Mobile Payments in China, a new report by ABI Research... More
Georgian banks plan NFC payments launch in 2012
MasterCard is working actively with banks in Georgia with the aim of introducing a commercial NFC payments service in 2012, Kemal Uyan, MasterCard’s regional business development director in south east Europe, has told The Financial:... More
First BlackBerry NFC phones to arrive later this month
The BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 NFC-enabled smartphones will start shipping “later this month”, Research in Motion has announced... More
LG Optimus Net to arrive in US with NFC?
The NFC version of LG’s recently announced Optimus Net Android smartphone is set to arrive in the US on T-Mobile, NFC World has learned... More
Mozilla plans NFC support for new mobile operating system
The Mozilla Foundation, responsible for the development of the Firefox open source browser, has announced plans for Boot to Gecko, a new open source operating system designed specifically for mobile phones and tablets... More
ABI: One billion contactless payments cards to ship in 2016
One billion payment cards with contactless capabilities will be shipped globally in 2016, up from just 170 million in 2010, according to Payment Cards, a new report from ABI Research... More
Nokia N5 will come with NFC
Nokia‘s upcoming N5 Symbian smartphone will come with NFC, according to an FCC filing spotted by Wireless Goodness... More
Retailer Narvesen starts NFC trial in Latvia
Narvesen Baltija, a chain of 247 newsagent stores and kiosks across Latvia owned by Norwegian convenience store chain Narvesen, has launched a trial of NFC stickers at 10 of its outlets... More
Top Google, Square, Visa and Verifone executives to go on stage with Isis today
The ‘Mobile Payments Smackdown’ session at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech event today is set to be the venue for the first live discussion of the NFC deals signed by the major US payments networks with Isis — and NFC World readers can tune in to watch the discussions live via a free webcast provided by the event organisers... More
MasterCard discusses Isis NFC payments deal
“We absolutely believe that mobile payments has to be open,” Ed McLaughlin, MasterCard’s chief emerging payments officer has explained in a video interview posted on the company’s Heart of Commerce blog today... More
Google issues first response to Isis NFC payments deals
What does the news that Isis has signed up all four US payments networks — Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express — for its NFC payments service mean for the future of the Google Wallet service?... More
NFC to arrive in Australia “within three months”
Commonwealth Bank of Australia plans to introduce a mass-market NFC service based on microSD technology “within three months”, ZDNet Australia reports:... More
Blaze Mobile wins NFC sticker patent
US mobile payments provider Blaze Mobile has been granted a patent for its NFC payment sticker and mobile wallet solution... More
Oberthur gets EAL4+ certification for FlyBuy NFC SIM
Oberthur Technologies has become the first supplier to gain Common Criteria EAL4+ certification for an NFC SIM... More