Inside Secure’s consolidated revenues grew 94% to US$151m in 2011, due mostly to strong sales of NFC chips... 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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Eclipse NDEF plugin released
An NFC plugin is now available for the Eclipse software development environment... More
Identive shows open NFC access control with Plaid
Identive unveiled an open standards based NFC physical access control solution at last week’s ISC West tradeshow in Las Vegas. More
University gets NFC canteen
Pennsylvania’s Shippensburg University is testing payments via contactless stickers in two of its cafeterias... More
Sony scans dabs with screens
Phone maker Sony has applied for a patent which could see fingerprint sensors and cameras built into mobile phone screens... More
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Grenoble builds NFC system
Grenoble is to get a local NFC payments system, reports 20minutes.fr... More
Villanova University tests new Ingersoll Rand mobile keys service
Students at the US university are using NFC-enabled mobile phones to gain access to dorms, academic buildings and administrative offices. More
Danone delivers information to new moms via NFC
The food company’s baby nutrition division in Singapore has released findings from a pilot project which has seen 400 NFC tags being placed in supermarkets, clinics and in homes to provide new mothers with information on a range of parenting and nutritional topics. More
Google buys payments firm
Google has acquired platform-as-a-service (PaaS) electronic payments technology provider TxVia... More
UL acquires Collis
NFC and secure transaction testing and advisory firm Collis has been acquired by UL, a safety science company with 9,000 employees in more than 100 countries... More
Narian launches low cost NFC platform for retailers
NFC4Retail, which provides merchants with a suite of NFC apps designed to improve the in-store shopping experience, is now available in 21 countries. The service costs US$20 per store per month and is free of charge during an initial public beta period. More
Wallet engineer heads to Square
Rob von Behren, a co-founder of Google Wallet, has left the search giant to join Square as a “hyperspatial payments pioneer”... More
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Olivetti preps NFC tablets
Italian computer manufacturer Olivetti looks set to release two Android 4.0 tablets, both sporting NFC... More
NFC Forum partners with GlobalPlatform on NFC standards
The partnership will see the organisation responsible for setting core NFC functionality standards working with the association which handles secure element specifications to support the development of internationally interoperable, multi-application NFC solutions. More
Smartrac acquires UPM RFID
RFID giant Smartrac has completed its acquisition of UPM’s RFID business, a leading supplier of NFC tags... More
New Zealand carriers to form NFC venture with payments provider
Vodafone, 2degrees and Telecom New Zealand have partnered with the operator of the country’s debit card and ATM networks to introduce a central TSM platform that will allow the carriers to “continue to compete vigorously for customers by developing their own innovative services on top of the open platform infrastructure provided by the TSM”. More
London NFC hackathon winners get funding
Two of the twenty teams which took part in last weekend’s Isobar Create London NFC app development event have received kick-starter funding they will be able to use to turn their apps into commercial products. More
Berg forecasts 700m NFC phones
The number of NFC phones shipped will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 87.8% between now and 2016, according to a new forecast from Berg Insight, taking the number of phones shipped from 2011’s 30m to 700m in 2016... More
FujiFilm adds NFC to photo printing kiosks
The imaging company’s new NFC module is designed to make it easy for consumers to order photos from in-store kiosks by simply selecting the images they want to print on their NFC device and then tapping it to the kiosk. More
Maxis to launch iPhone NFC payments in Malaysia
Malaysian mobile network operator Maxis is to enable iPhone users to take part in its FastTap NFC payments service “soon”, using an add-on NFC case. More