NFC chip shipments will reach 785 million units in 2015, according to a new report from IMS Research, more than double the 300 million units recently predicted to ship that year by ABI Research... More
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300 million NFC chips to ship in 2015, says ABI
Demand for NFC chips for use in mobile handsets, computer and consumer electronics and mobile handset peripherals will see the world NFC chip market reaching 300m units in 2015, according to a new report from ABI Research... More
STMicro, NXP, Trusted Logic and Stollmann join forces to add NFC to Android devices
NFC chipset manufacturer STMicroelectronics and Stollmann, which launched a chipset independent NFC API for Android last month, have joined NXP and Trusted Logic, who launched a joint NFC API for Android in April, to promote a common hardware-independent API for NFC applications on mobile phones and other devices running Android... More
Sberbank to run NFC payments and ticketing trial in Moscow
Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, is planning to run an NFC trial in Moscow later this year, Russian business publication Kommersant reports... More
Oi Paggo to run NFC field trial in Brazil using Gemalto NFC add-on
Oi Paggo, the SMS-based mobile payments service owned by Brazilian mobile network operator Oi, is to run an NFC field trial using Gemalto’s Upteq N-Flex device later this year... More
Bankers’ Bank of the West to offer Bling Nation’s payments service to its 330 member banks
Bling Nation has signed a deal with Bankers’ Bank of the West, a provider of correspondent services to more than 330 community banks in the Rocky Mountain and western states of the USA... More
Turkcell also planning to launch NFC in Turkey by end of 2010
Following on from the news that Garanti Bank and Avea look to be planning a commercial NFC launch in July this year, Turkish publication Hurriyet reports that mobile network operator Turkcell also plans to introduce NFC before the end of 2010... More
Commercial NFC service to launch in Turkey in July?
The Turkish media is reporting that Garanti Bank and mobile network operator Avea are to launch what appears to be a mass market commercial NFC service in July... More
Video footage of Visa’s NFC iPhone device now available
The video footage described in the press release NFC World spotted on Tuesday, announcing that Visa is to test an NFC-enabled protective case for the iPhone, is now live on the PR Newswire website... More
Breaking: Visa to bring NFC mobile payments to the iPhone
A joint press release from Visa and DeviceFidelity has appeared on the MarketWatch website which reveals that the two companies have developed a protective case for the iPhone that will enable users “to make payments by simply waving their iPhone in front of a contactless payment terminal.”... More
Inside Contactless to acquire Atmel’s secure microcontroller business
Inside Contactless has agreed to acquire Atmel‘s Secure Microcontroller Solutions (SMS) business, based in Rousset, France and East Kilbride, UK... More
Polkomtel and BZ WBK bank to run NFC trial in three Polish cities
Mobile network operator Polkomtel has partnered with BZ WBK bank to run an NFC payments trial in the cities of Warsaw, Wroclaw and Poznan... More
Consult Hyperion to fund PhD research into security of NFC transactions
Consult Hyperion has agreed to help fund a PhD research project being undertaken by Thomas Diakos at the University of Surrey... More
Bling Nation signs up additional Colorado bank for mobile contactless payments
Community State Bank in Lamar, Colorado has become the latest local bank to offer Bling Nation’s sticker-based mobile contactless payments service to its customers... More
T-Mobile begins internal NFC payments and access control trial in Czech Republic
Mobile network operator T-Mobile Czech Republic has begun testing NFC at its offices in the Czech Republic... More
NXP and Trusted Logic release open source Android NFC API
NXP and Trusted Logic have released an open source NFC Android API designed to work with a second generation NFC Android stack developed by the two companies which, they say, “provides a complete integration into the Android framework, comparable to the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi services already integrated in Android.”... More
Inside Contactless to make Open NFC source code and API available on Sourceforge.net
Developers looking to create NFC solutions and devices will now be able to download the company’s NFC protocol stack for Android, MeeGo, Linux and Windows Mobile phones from the Sourceforge free open source software website. More
Facebook tests RFID-based location services — NFC on the way?
The All Facebook blog reports that Facebook is issuing RFID tags to all the delegates attending its f8 developer conference:... More
Apple plans NFC-based airline ticketing plus unmanned airport check-in and security processes
The latest in a host of near field communication-related patent applications from Apple covers the use of an NFC-enabled iPhone for buying an airline ticket and for checking in baggage... More
Innovision opens online store for NFC tags
Innovision Research & Technology has launched BuyNFC.com, an online store for NFC application developers and consumers looking to purchase NFC tags... More