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Touchatag NFC tag platform now available on Android phones
Touchatag, the NFC tag application platform developed by Alcatel-Lucent, is now available as a downloadable app for Android NFC phones from Android Market... More
Transport for London confirms plans to accept contactless cards in time for Olympics
London is to be the first city in the world to convert its entire public transport network to accepting contactless payment cards, Transport for London has announced... More
Bank of America adds BlackBerry phones to NFC trial
BoyGeniusReport has revealed details of a new invitation-only NFC payments trial to be conducted by Bank of America... More
10% of Japanese consumers made a purchase with their mobile wallet in December
Analysis by Comscore for its 2010 Mobile Year in Review has found that just under 10% of Japanese mobile subscribers made a purchase with their mobile wallet during December 2010... More
GSMA video shows NFC in action in Nice
Mobile network operators’ association the GSMA has produced a video showing near field communication phones in action in the French city of Nice, where mobile operators have been conducting an NFC trial under the Cityzi brand name... More
O2 Money seeks UK senior product manager
O2 Money has a vacancy for a senior product manager... More
Ideo concept shows how RFID tags could be used in the music industry
Design consultancy Ideo has developed a concept music player that uses cards embedded with RFID tags to generate music playlists... More
Stanford researchers demonstrate NFC TV applications
Researchers from Stanford University‘s MobiSocial lab, who last month demonstrated the first Android NFC peer-to-peer applications, have now developed a number of applications which show how NFC could be used to interact with TVs:... More
Powermat aims to combine NFC and wireless charging technologies
Israeli wireless charging specialist Powermat has developed an antenna that supports both near field communication and wireless charging, Forbes reports:... More
Bankinter to test NFC payments in Madrid
Bankinter, the sixth-largest listed banking group in Spain, has announced an NFC payments trial with Visa which will allow customers to have more than one card set up on their mobile phone... More
MasterCard joins Visa Europe in adopting Wireless Dynamics’ iPhone NFC device
MasterCard has revealed that, like Visa Europe, it is working with Canadian firm Wireless Dynamics to bring its payments services to iPhone users... More
Survey shows consumers will adopt mobile payments, despite security fears
Almost half of the most active mobile device users around the world would be prepared to pay for goods and services using their phones, despite only one in four in the US and Europe trusting the new technology... More
Majority of Britons ‘uncomfortable’ with mobile device payments
More than half of UK consumers are distinctly uncomfortable with the idea of contactless payments made through their mobile device, according to new research... More
“Many, if not most” BlackBerry handsets to have NFC in 2011
Research in Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie has further confirmed the BlackBerry maker’s plans to add near field communication functionality to its mobile phones at the Mobile World Congress this week... More
Less than 10% of US consumers willing to pay for mobile payments
Less than one in 10 consumers in the US are prepared to pay for mobile payment and banking services, despite a surge in use in the past year... More
Orange UK launches NFC ready ‘Orange Cash’ account
Orange UK has launched Orange Cash, a prepaid account that can be used at any MasterCard accepting merchant equipped with a contactless point-of-sale terminal... More
European telco CEOs agree to work together on NFC standards
Five of Europe’s largest mobile network operators — Orange UK, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom Orange, Vodafone and Telecom Italia — have agreed to work together to develop NFC standards, FierceWireless reports, “in hopes it will accelerate the technology’s prominence and make it easier for partners such as banks and retailers to deploy”:... More
UK to get five ‘exclusively NFC payment-based towns’ by end 2011
The UK’s mobile network operators are working on plans to establish five exclusively NFC payment-based towns, where all card accepting merchants would be equipped with contactless point of sale terminals, Charlotte Blanchard, director of products and services at mobile network operator 3, has told IT PRO... More
ZTE to include NFC in all new phones from Q2 2011
Chinese handset manufacturer ZTE, now the world’s fourth largest mobile phone maker, has announced it is to include NFC functionality in all its next generation handsets from the second quarter of this year... More