Movie-goers at a multiplex in Mumbai, India can now book tickets, leave feedback and like the Cinemax theatre chain on Facebook after tapping smart posters or NFC enabled standees in the cinema foyer... More
Archive: News in brief
Nokia launches WP8 NFC app
Nokia has introduced a cloud-based file sharing app with NFC features for its Windows 8 phones... More
Flojack on target for funding
Flomio’s bid to crowdfund the production of its FloJack NFC add-on for iOS devices is just over US$10,000 away from its $80,000 target with five days to run... More
Android 4.2 adds NFC barcodes
The release of Android 4.2 sees support for Kovio‘s NFC Barcode printed tags added to the operating system... More
Game4u adds NFC likes
Indian video games retailer Game4u has installed smart posters in its stores that let NFC phone users tap their handset to “like” the retailer on Facebook... More
Bell ID buys Ecebs
Transportation and smart card technology specialist Ecebs has been acquired by Bell ID... More
Audi to work on NFC with NXP
Car maker Audi has signed a strategic partnership deal with NXP that will see the two companies working on eight areas of automotive innovation, including NFC, Car-to-X communications, telematics and high-voltage controls for electric vehicles... More
Atos adds portable POS
Atos Worldline has launched Yoximo, a portable POS terminal with a contactless reader integrated into its colour screen... More
JCB to launch mobile wallet
Japanese payment brand JCB has begun a one month trial of a new JCB Mobile Wallet platform in Tokyo’s Omotesando shopping district and says it will launch the product commercially in 2013... More
Infineon gains support for DCLB
Ten device manufacturers are now using Infineon‘s Digital Contactless Bridge (DCLB) interface to enable a fast and secure connection between an embedded secure element and an NFC modem, the chip maker reports... More
WordPress plugin offers NFC
The developers behind Project Ingeborg, which can provide visitors to a town or city with the ability to download books, works of art and other information relevant to particular locations via NFC tags and QR codes, have made the system available as a plugin for the popular WordPress content management platform... More
Tag app for WP8 phones
Developer Andreas Jakl has introduced NFC Interactor, an NFC tag reading and writing application for Windows Phone 8 handsets... More
RBS picks G&D for NFC
RBS Group, which owns the UK’s Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest banks, has picked Giesecke and Devrient as the TSM for its TouchPay NFC payments project... More
Eurosmart forecasts NFC SEs
Close to 100m NFC secure elements will be shipped this year and that number will double in 2013, according to analysis conducted by smart card trade body Eurosmart... More
Legic demos NFC for ID
Contactless card specialist Legic is demonstrating at Cartes a new NFC trusted service management solution aimed at the employee ID market... More
AdvanIDe adds reader boards
Assa Abloy owned smart card and RFID chip maker AdvanIDe has launched a range of contactless reader modules aimed at the NFC market... More
Identive adds PC NFC readers
Identive has announced a range of desktop readers that support credentials stored on contact and contactless smart cards as well as NFC phones... More
C-Sam and DNP expand NFC deal
C-Sam and Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) have expanded availability of their joint NFC mobile wallet solution, available in Japan since July, to more than 30 countries across the Asia-Pacific region... More
Morpho ships NFC SIMs to KT
Morpho has shipped 500,000 NFC/LTE SIM cards to KT, Korea’s second largest mobile network operator... More
Yubico shows NFC token
Online identity protection specialist Yubico is demonstrating a production version of its YubiKey NFC USB authentication device at Cartes this week. First announced in February, the US$50 YubiKey Neo is designed to fit neatly onto a keychain and allows NFC phone users to securely identify themselves by simply bringing their YubiKey into close proximity with their mobile phone... More