Laptop computer maker Lenovo has begun offering near field communication functionality as an optional extra to buyers of its T410, T510 and W510 ThinkPad laptops... More
Archive: Newswire
European Payments Council publishes NFC white paper
The European Payments Council (EPC) has published a white paper which examines the ways in which NFC technology could be used to deliver compatible mobile phone-based payments services across the 32 countries of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)... More
Rfinity expands BYU-Idaho University NFC pilot to local stores and shoppers
Rfinity has signed a deal with Citizens Community Bank that sees its NFC payment trial at Brigham Young University’s Idaho campus expanded to include both non-University students and off-campus merchants... More
Apple patent introduces Products+ for NFC-based product promotions
Yet another NFC-related Apple patent application has been published, this time covering the use of an NFC phone to read a tag on a consumer product in order to obtain a benefit provided by the manufacturer or retailer... More
French government funds twelve more NFC and RFID projects
Christian Estrosi, the French Minister for Industry and the Mayor of Nice, has announced details of twelve NFC and RFID projects which are to share in €4.5 million of funding from the French government... More
HID Global and Inside Contactless to add employee ID cards to NFC phones
Employee ID card leader HID Global and Inside Contactless have partnered to offer support for HID’s iClass vicinity card technology to NFC phones... More
PayPal begins move into retail store payments with Bling Nation pilot
Online payments giant PayPal has partnered with Bling Nation for a trial that will see consumers being able to use their PayPal accounts to make payments in retail stores... More
La Caixa reports first results from Sitges NFC trial
The first results of the NFC payments trial taking place in Sitges, Spain show that 60% of the participants have so far used their phone to make a payment, Benjamí Puigdevall, CEO of e-La Caixa, has told Spanish financial publication CincoDias... More
Nokia: MeeGo will include NFC too
Nokia’s new head of mobile solutions, Anssi Vanjoki, has revealed that near field communication functionality will be a core capability of the new MeeGo operating system... More
Gentag develops NFC compatible disposable wireless sensors
Disposable wireless sensors specialist Gentag has announced that it has successfully tested the use of its technology with an NXP NFC controller, opening up the market for NFC phones to be used to read a wide range of disposable sensors designed for use in the medical sector... More
Broadcom to enter NFC market, buys Innovision for $47.5m
Semiconductor giant Broadcom Corporation has announced it has agreed to acquire UK-based NFC specialist Innovision Research & Technology in a deal valued at US$47.5m... More
NTT adds new mobile marketing capabilities to Japan’s Osaifu-Keitai mobile wallet service
NTT Communications has launched a new service that enables businesses to offer a range of mobile marketing services to users of Japan’s Osaifu-Keitai mobile wallet service... More
Innovision launches 512 byte NFC tag
Innovision Research & Technology has launched a new NFC tag with more than five times the memory of its existing NFC tag... More
Gemalto provides KDDI with end-to-end NFC security solution
Gemalto has provided further details of the role it is playing in Japanese mobile network operator KDDI‘s extensive NFC field test, which went live last month... More
China Unicom launches NFC payments service in Beijing
The Beijing branch of mobile network operator China Unicom has launched an NFC service in conjunction with Beijing Municipal Administration and Communications Card Co (BMAC)... More
No NFC in iPhone 4G
Apple’s fourth generation iPhone sports a slew of new features but will not have built-in NFC capability... More
US Bank to test NFC in Q4 2010
US Bank is to run an NFC pilot from the fourth quarter of 2010, Brandon McGee reports from the Mobile Banking & Emerging Applications Summit in Las Vegas... More
Innovision signs $6m IP licensing deal
NFC chipset technology specialist Innovision has signed a licensing agreement with a “major global semiconductor corporation”... More
NXP adds NFC to carbon emissions tracking project
NXP has become the lead sponsor of the European Supply Chain Institute’s Supply Chain Carbon Council with the aim of promoting the use of RFID and NFC technology to track the carbon emissions footprint of manufactured products... More
Discover, MasterCard certify new mobile contactless stickers from Inside and CPI
A new range of contactless stickers, designed to be attached to the back of a mobile phone, have been certified by MasterCard and Discover Financial Services... More