The deadline for submitting papers for consideration for presentations at next year’s Wima conference, to be held in Monaco in April, is 3 December... More
Archive: Newswire
DeviceFidelity adds NFC support for Android and Mifare
DeviceFidelity has announced that its In2Pay microSD format NFC devices can now be used in Android phones... More
Tyfone picks up another patent, shows off NFC on Androids
NFC-on-microSD specialist Tyfone has been granted another patent that covers its use of memory cards as an NFC-enabler in mobile phones... More
O2 Money recruits NFC and payments specialists to ‘establish the newest name in financial services’
O2 Money, the financial services arm of UK mobile network operator O2, is on the hunt for a number of NFC, card and payments specialists to “help establish the newest name in financial services,” according to the company’s recruitment service... More
Nokia and partners to introduce ‘major new initiative in US mobile network services capabilities including contactless payment’
UPDATE: “There’s not going to be any launch by Nokia at this event,” the company’s Damien Balsan has told NFC World... More
US Bank begins testing microSD based NFC payments service
US Bank has begun a field trial of microSD format NFC devices... More
US telcos hire GE Capital CMO to head mobile payments joint venture
AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA have hired Michael Abbott, the chief marketing officer for General Electrics’ GE Capital card business, as the chief executive of their NFC-based US mobile payments venture, according to the Wall Street Journal... More
Could Apple’s iTunes announcement include NFC?
OPINION: The last 48 hours have seen a rush of announcements showing that near field communication is moving rapidly to widespread adoption:... More
Eric Schmidt: Android Gingerbread 2.3 to support NFC
“Android Gingerbread 2.3 will support near field communications to read RFID tags as well as communicate with other phones, payment systems and other possible applications,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt has told the Web 2.0 Summit conference today, The Next Web reports... More
AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Discover and Barclays to officially announce mobile payment joint venture plans
Confirmation that AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA have formed a joint venture to introduce NFC-based mobile payments services in the US could come as early as tomorrow, according to a Reuters report... More
Bling Nation to launch national US mobile payments service in early 2011
Bling Nation is set to roll out its mobile payments technology across the United States in early 2011, Forbes reports, and also plans to launch its service in other countries next year... More
NTT Docomo to switch to NFC in 2013?
NTT Docomo is set to make the switch to NFC standard technology in 2013, according to a report in Japanese business newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun... More
UK government publishes e-money consultation document, aims to open up market to mobile operators
The UK government has published a consultation document and is requesting feedback from interested parties on planned changes to the way that electronic money is regulated in the UK... More
EU backs project that aims to add a secure element to a mobile device’s main processor
ARM, Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), Infineon Technologies, Brightsight and Graz University of Technology, Austria have received funding from the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to develop technology that will enable a new kind of secure element to be built into a mobile device’s main processor... More
Metro Bank to issue mobile payments stickers in the UK?
Plans at Metro Bank, the first new retail bank to be launched in the UK for more than a hundred years, include the provision of contactless stickers that customers could attach to their mobile phones to make payments at the point of sale, according to Computerworld... More
Thirteen French cities apply for NFC test zone funding
A total of thirteen cities have responded to the French government’s call for proposals for three to five more cities to receive funding to run large scale NFC field trials similar to the Cityzi project running in Nice, according to Le Journal du Net... More
Mobey Forum members now represent 25% of the world’s banking customers
Mobey Forum‘s banking members have more than 450 million customers around the world, the mobile financial services association has announced, meaning that its members now represent more than 25% of the world’s banking customers... More
Pub chain Yates’s partners with Waspit for launch of NFC payments service in the UK
Mobile payments specialist Waspit has announced it is to launch a new open loop NFC payments service at the Ad:Tech conference and exhibition in New York on 3 November... More
SK C&C USA joins GlobalPlatform
SK C&C USA, the US arm of Korean mobile commerce specialist SK C&C has joined international smart card and NFC specifications body GlobalPlatform... More
Russian mobile operators to begin joint NFC pilot in November
The NFC Test Zone announced in December 2009 by leading Russian mobile network operators is now set to go live in November, eMoney News reports, with a ticketing pilot on the Moscow rail-air link operated by Aeroexpress... More