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RFI tests NFC for Visa
Test lab RFI Global has been accredited to perform Visa mobile product testing... More
SAP and Airplus to offer NFC
SAP and business travel payment specialist Airplus International plan to offer NFC mobile payment facilities to business travellers, the enterprise resource planning leader has announced... More
ING to pilot NFC in Poland
ING Bank Slaski is to conduct a twelve month NFC payments trial in Poland... More
Hrvatski to trial NFC in Croatia
Two hundred employees of Hrvatski Telekom (HT) are to take part in Croatia’s first NFC payments pilot, the carrier has announced... More
Circuit offers NFC security boost
A memristor-based circuit that spits out a steady stream of true random numbers could hold the key to enhanced security in NFC transactions, reports IEEE Spectrum... More
Droid Razr HD to sport NFC
A Motorola handset with NFC which has just received FCC approval is believed to be the upcoming Droid Razr HD, according to Droid Life... More
Orange joins patent pool
Mobile network Orange has joined the NFC Patent Licensing Program, a patent pool run by France Brevets and launched in June with Inside Secure... More
Fast food outlet adds NFC
Paris-based Mexican fast food restaurant Chido has put in Airtag’s Airfid NFC-compatible customer loyalty programme... More
iPhone to get NFC in Sept/Oct?
The next iPhone is currently undergoing its “third stage engineering verification test” and will be released in late September or early October, according to BGR... More
Malaysian transit card to go NFC
Malaysian transit card issuer Touch ‘n Go will begin pilot testing an NFC payments service in collaboration with mobile network operator Maxis and CIMB Bank in the next two months, news agency Bernama reports... More
Cambodia to get NFC payments
Cambodian mobile money transfer provider Wing plans to begin testing NFC later this year, The Phnom Penh Post reports... More
DeviFi gets European patent
DeviceFidelity has been granted a European patent covering technology underlying its iCaisse NFC add-on for Apple devices... More
Comprion tests OTA services
Test equipment specialist Comprion has introduced a testing solution that simulates complex over-the-air (OTA) use cases so that communication errors can be detected before service rollouts... More
Diebold joins GlobalPlatform
ATM maker Diebold has joined smart card and secure element standards body GlobalPlatform... More
NFC app handles a million tasks
Tagstand’s NFC Task Launcher app has been used to execute over one million actions, reports Techcrunch... More
OTI picks up US patents
Israel-based contactless technology developer On Track Innovations has been granted two new patents... More
Telia takes Accumulate stake
Mobile operator TeliaSonera has invested in Stockholm-based mobile payments specialist Accumulate, which supplied the technology underpinning the Swedish networks’ WyWallet service announced last week... More
SES launches mobile stickers
SES RFID Solutions has announced a new range of NFC stickers designed to go on mobile phones... More
Gwallet UK launch imminent?
Google reps have been spotted demonstrating Google Wallet to customers in central London department store Selfridges, NFC World has learned... More