Osama Bedier, PayPal’s vice president of product development and a key player in the company’s move towards mobile payments, has joined Google... More
Archive: Newswire
Apple planning to offer merchants low cost NFC payments terminals?
The Apple NFC rumour mill has swung into action again today, with new speculation that the company plans to include near field communication in both the next iPhone and the next iPad — and could be planning to offer heavily subsidized or even free NFC payments terminals to merchants in a bid to kickstart a mobile payments service... More
MasterCard hires NFC expert Mung-Ki Woo as head of mobile
MasterCard Worldwide has hired Mung-Ki Woo as its new ‘group executive, mobile’... More
Starbucks ‘will continue to explore NFC’
Coffee giant Starbucks has announced that its mobile payment service, first introduced on a pilot basis in Seattle and Silicon Valley during September 2009, is to be rolled out across the US... More
NFC Forum publishes transport ticketing white paper
The NFC Forum has published a white paper that provides an introduction to the potential uses and benefits of NFC technology in public transportation... More
Schmidt: Mobile money is a key part of Google’s strategy for 2011
Writing in the Harvard Business Review, Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt has explained that mobile money is one of three key areas of focus for Google in 2011... More
More than 30 job openings now available at Isis NFC joint venture
Isis, the joint venture between mobile network operators AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile which is set to introduce a commercial NFC service in the US from 2012, has posted more than thirty job vacancies on its website... More
BlackBerry Torch 2 also set to come with NFC
BoyGeniusReport has added details of the forthcoming BlackBerry Torch 2 to its series of exclusive reports of new BlackBerry phones equipped with NFC... More
LG planning to launch $200 NFC phone?
Reports in two Korean publications suggest that LG is planning to launch a US$200 mass market phone with built-in NFC capabilities at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month... More
RIM about to launch two BlackBerry NFC phones?
RIM is about to launch two new BlackBerry phones equipped with NFC technology, according to BoyGeniusReport which has published images and specifications for the two new devices... More
French government funds nine NFC cities
The cities of Paris, Bordeaux, Caen, Lille, Marseille, Rennes, Strasbourg and Toulouse are to join Nice in the next stage of French plans to deploy a national NFC infrastructure... More
Samsung Galaxy S2 to launch with NFC at Mobile World Congress?
The successor to Samsung’s hugely successful Galaxy S smartphone is set to launch at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month, according to a report in Korean publication Etnews — and near field communication functionality looks set to come as standard... More
Google job ad confirms plans to enter payments market?
Google has begun recruiting a ‘Technical Account Manager, Mobile Commerce’ who will be involved in building partnerships with merchants, card issuers and POS solution providers — indicating clearly that the internet giant plans to make a move into the mobile payments market... More
OTI introduces Copni NFC SIM+antenna device
Contactless specialist On Track Innovations (OTI) has announced a new NFC add-on... More
Samsung to build NFC support into Bada operating system
Samsung is to include support for near field communication in version 2.0 of its Bada operating system, the handset manufacturer has told delegates attending a developer day in Seoul... More
Google to enter NFC payments market?
Google is working on a mobile payments and advertising service based on NFC technology, according to Bloomberg Businessweek:... More
Watchdata produces two millionth NFC add-on
Smart card and data security specialist Watchdata has produced its two millionth Simpass SIM+antenna NFC device, the company has announced... More
Monitise and Vivotech offer joint NFC solution to US banks
Monitise and Vivotech have partnered to offer banks in the United States an NFC payments solution that combines Vivotech’s over-the-air (OTA) software and Monitise’s Mobile Money technology... More
Nexus S teardown: How NFC fits inside the new Google phone
Tech repair website iFixit has dismantled and photographed Samsung’s Nexus S smartphone, the first Android device to run the new Gingerbread operating system and the first to include support for near field communication... More
Orange to roll out NFC services across Europe in 2011
Orange will begin introducing NFC services “in the majority of countries in which it has a presence” in 2011, the mobile network operator has told mobile phone manufacturers at a meeting in Paris on 15 December... More