POS terminal maker Key Innovations has unveiled an unattended payment terminal that uses animated menus to help customers navigate the payment process... 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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No NFC for iPhone 4S
If there’s NFC inside the new iPhone announced today, Apple isn’t shouting about it... More
NFC hails Taiwan taxis
Taiwan Mobile is placing smart posters in its Myfone stores that let customers call a Taiwan Taxi Corp cab using a Nokia NFC phone... More
NXP and Landis+Gyr demo NFC smart meters
Smart meters equipped with NFC will allow utility companies to save money and increase convenience, say the partners. More
Korean bus stops get NFC
Korean mobile network operator KT is adding smart posters to bus stops across Gyeonggi Province. Travellers will be able to use the posters to download real-time bus service information via NFC tags or QR codes. More
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Oz to get NFC ‘within months’
NFC payments could arrive in Australia as soon as the new year... More
Updated: XDA devs add Google Wallet to original Nexus S?
Developers say they have come up with a way to add Google Wallet functionality, including a Google Prepaid Card carrying a free US$10 credit, to the original Nexus S NFC phone. More
SleepTrak NFC sleep monitoring service goes live
The innovative sleep disorder monitoring service is now available to T-Mobile USA subscribers equipped with a Nokia Astound NFC phone. More
OfficeMax goes live with Google Wallet
Customers can now use their NFC mobile phones to make payments, redeem coupons and receive rewards via Google SingleTap terminals installed at more than one hundred of the office supplies chain’s stores in five US regions. More
Eight NFC products reach finals of Sesames awards
Finalists for the annual Cartes trade show awards include Taiwan-based Go-Trust, developer of a single wire protocol compliant NFC microSD card. More
EMVCo reports on NFC
Payments industry technical standards body EMVCo has published a 47-page white paper setting out its view of the contactless mobile payment (CMP) landscape, detailing the principles that guide the body’s efforts, and summarising the work it has carried out to date... More
Hypercom US changes name
The US business of point-of-sale terminal manufacturer Hypercom has changed its name to Equinox Payments... More
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Chongqing gets NFC wallet
CRC Bank has launched China UnionPay’s NFC-based mobile payments system in Chongqing, south west China... More
Conti shows NFC car keys
Auto components manufacturer Continental demonstrated its NFC car key concept at last month’s IAA Motor Show in Frankfurt... More
Germans not ready for m-payments
Just one in four Germans wants to pay for goods with their mobile phone and 54% don’t want to use any form of mobile payment, according to a survey conducted by management consultancy Putz & Partner... More
ABI forecasts NFC spend
More than US$100bn will be spent worldwide using NFC in 2016 according to NFC Mobile Payments, a new report from ABI Research... More
Fed studies P2P payments
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Retail Payments Risk Forum has published a working paper (PDF) on peer-to-peer payments as a resource for regulators, consumers, and the payments industry... More
Inside hires NFC evangelist
Digital security specialist Inside Secure has appointed Laurent Sanchez as vice president of applications and ecosystems... More
Aussies call for NFC phones
The Communications Council, an Australian marketing industry body, has urged smartphone makers to release more NFC phones in the country... More
SCM launches NFC dev kit
SCM Microsystems has announced an NFC solutions development kit that includes reader modules, drivers, source code examples for handling device-to-tag and peer-to-peer NFC applications, software development tools, and documentation... More