The mobile device hardware security market will be worth US$1.9bn by 2017, up from US$430m in 2012, according to a new report by ABI Research. More
- Bank of China lets taxi drivers accept central bank digital currency payments on NFC mobile phones
- Juniper forecasts 25% increase in POS terminal transaction values by 2028
- STMicroelectronics launches NFC tag chip with elliptic curve cryptography
- NFC Forum survey finds majority of consumers now prefer making payments with their mobile phone
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Oberthur buys MoreMagic
Oberthur Technologies has acquired Boston-based mobile payments specialist MoreMagic... More
Google adds ‘Save to Wallet’ APIs for payments cards and offers
The new APIs will allow consumers to save offers directly from a merchant’s website into Google Wallet and then redeem them at the point-of-sale via NFC, mobile barcodes or by simply showing the offer code to the sales assistant. More
Targobank and E-Plus to test NFC
Targobank, part of the French Crédit Mutuel group, and E-Plus, Germany’s third largest mobile network operator, have announced plans to work together to test NFC payments... More
Russian Post to explore NFC
Russian Post has signed an agreement with MasterCard to jointly develop and commercialise a range of “innovative financial products”... More
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Isle of Wight festival goers get contactless tickets and payments
“There are a number of festivals throughout the UK, Europe and United States adopting the technology, and they’re all using entry wristbands as the intermediary,” says technology provider ID&C. “It’s convenient for fans and will only benefit their experience.” More
Orange France rolls out NFC SIMs
Orange France is to issue NFC SIMs to all its 27m subscribers, making it the first carrier in Europe to deploy NFC-enabled SIM cards nationally... More
Cityzi hits 1m NFC phones
French mobile network operators Orange, Bouygues Télécom, SFR and NRJ Mobile have announced that more than one million Cityzi NFC phones have now been sold... More
Google unveils Nexus Q media player with NFC
The new sphere is “the first-ever social streaming device — like a cloud-connected jukebox where everyone brings their own music to the party,” says Google’s Andy Rubin. More
NXP puts SE in Nexus 7
Google’s Nexus 7 tablet, launched earlier today, contains a PN65 NFC controller from NXP... More
Google unveils Nexus 7 tablet with NFC
Google has unveiled its hotly anticipated Nexus tablet at the Google I/O developers’ conference in San Francisco. More
Jelly Bean to extend NFC P2P
Google has announced two new NFC features will be available in the Android 4.1 ‘Jelly Bean’ version of its Android Beam service... More
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1m Android NFC devices now shipping every week
More than one million Android devices with in-built NFC functionality are now shipping every week, Google has announced at the Google I/O developers’ event in San Francisco. More
Inside Secure appoints NFC patent licensing agent
The NFC chip specialist has hired IP commercialisation specialist France Brevets to handle licensing of more than seventy patents — including a core patent that is expected to mean any manufacturer incorporating an NFC controller into their device will need to acquire a license. More
Gap Japan votes with NFC
Fashion chain Gap has used wristbands and NFC phones to allow customers to vote for the best dressed staff at two stores in Tokyo... More
Toronto to get NFC ticketing test
Metrolinx is to test open loop NFC and contactless card versions of its Presto transit ticketing card this summer, the Toronto Star reports... More
China Mobile signs NFC payments partnership deal
The world’s largest mobile network operator is to collaborate with national payments network China UnionPay, in a deal set to lead to the introduction of NFC services in up to one hundred Chinese cities. More
Google readying Nexus tablet?
Google could be getting ready to launch an NFC-equipped Android tablet at its I/O developer event this week, according to Gizmodo, which reports that the Nexus 7 is built by Asus and includes a 1.3Ghz quad-core Tegra 3 processor and a GeForce 12-core GPU... More
NFC spotted in iPhone prototypes
Apple is testing iPhone prototypes equipped with NFC, according to 9to5Mac... More
Catchwell’s PDAs get NFC
Korean industrial PDA maker Catchwell is to build NFC into its Android and Windows Mobile 6.5 handheld computers... More