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LG Optimus G ships next week

The LG Optimus G comes with NFC

LG’s flagship Optimus G smartphone is to start shipping in Korea next week and will arrive in “key global markets” from October, says the company. The NFC-enabled handset runs Android 4.0 and sports a quad core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, a 4.7-inch 1280 by 768 screen and LTE. More


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Google doubles Wallet usage

Last month’s launch of Google Wallet 2.0 has led to usage of the NFC mobile wallet doubling, Frank Young, commerce business development manager for Google Wallet, has revealed on the Google Commerce blog... More


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NBS wins TSM deal

Card personalisation specialist NBS Technologies reports that it has won a contract from an unnamed European company to install its Xpressi Trusted Service Manager (TSM) solution... More



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Isis delays US NFC launch

Isis Ready

The first pilots of the US mobile operators’ NFC payments program in Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas will not go ahead on schedule and no new date for the launch has yet been set, says Isis. More



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No NFC announced for iPhone 5

Apple's iPhone 5

There’s no mention of NFC in the list of hardware improvements announced for the new iPhone 5 today, and there was only a very brief mention of the Passbook mobile wallet feature which was announced in June. More


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Thinaire expands NFC platform

US-based NFC marketing specialist Thinaire has launched the Thinaire Enterprise Suite, an NFC marketing platform that combines NFC tags, analytics, and integration with existing CRM, social media and database platforms... More


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A1 tests NFC access control

Austrian mobile network operator A1 reports that it has successfully tested a new NFC access control service called Airkey, developed by door lock maker Evva, IT specialist Rise and the Vienna University of Technology... More