Journalists have been invited to “get a look at what’s new from Android” at a Samsung press event subtitled the ‘Google Episode’, which is to be held at the CTIA Enterprise & Applications trade show in the US on October 11... 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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ATI uses NFC to check temperature of foods and pharmaceuticals
The company’s new solution is designed to enable standard NFC phones to be used instead of specialist equipment to monitor temperature-sensitive goods while they are in transit. More
Narian lines up retail pilots
NFC specialist Narian Technologies expects to try out its retail applications with a large department store chain and a large supermarket chain in the US in the first quarter of 2012... More
630m NFC phones in 2015
A total of 630m handsets, representing 40% of all mobile phones shipped, will come with NFC in 2015 and will drive transactions worth US$71bn, according to a new report by Informa Telecoms & Media... More
Quad/Graphics adds NFC to print
Printing giant Quad/Graphics is to show off print solutions that utilise NFC at next week’s DMA tradeshow in Boston... More
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BMO rolls out sticker payments
BMO is to become the first major Canadian bank to issue contactless stickers to its customers, says Canoe.ca... More
RIM publishes NFC primer
An NFC primer for developers has been published by BlackBerry maker RIM... More
Square COO dismisses NFC
Payments start-up Square‘s Keith Rabois has dismissed NFC as not offering value to retailers, telling delegates at GigaOm’s Mobilize conference this week that he has “never met a single merchant in the US who says ‘I want this NFC thing.'”... More
RIM tries NFC loyalty in Mexico
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is working on several NFC projects with stores in Mexico, according to Netmedia... More
Australian supermarket Coles tests outdoor NFC with Adshel
Fifty outdoor advertising sites in Melbourne have been equipped to allow consumers to download exclusive cookery recipes and video cookbooks via either WiFi or NFC. More
Nokia updates QT SDK
An online update for Qt SDK 1.1.3 is available from today which, the phone maker says, takes Nokia’s developer offering a significant step forward and “features a new version of Qt Mobility 1.2, which comes with tremendous enhancements compared to our previous Qt Mobility 1.2 beta version.” A free to attend webinar on Getting Started with NFC on Qt is to be held on 11 October... More
Nokia offers developers low-cost NFC Device Kit
The kit costs €180 and includes a C7 NFC phone as well as a selection of NFC tags. More
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UK consumers will pay up to £3 to load a mobile wallet
70% of UK smartphone users and 34% of non-smartphone users say they would be willing to try out NFC payments, a new consumer survey has found. More
NFC Forum publishes peer-to-peer communications specification
The new SNEP specification employs the same NDEF commands used in tag reading and writing applications, allowing information stored on an NFC tag to be read by a phone and then passed on to other NFC phones or exchanged with a wide range of other types of NFC-enabled device. More
NFC Forum readies test tool RFP
The NFC Forum is working on the second wave of its certification programme, due to be completed next year. As part of the project the standards organisation is looking to appoint an RF analog test tool validation services test house... More
Sheetz to accept Google Wallet
US fuel retailer Sheetz is now accepting NFC payments via Google Wallet, according to a post on the company’s Facebook page... More
Chile to get NFC in 2012
The Chilean unit of South Korean electronics manufacturer LG expects some retail stores and perhaps public areas like transport to start experimenting with NFC early next year, Sang Park, marketing manager for mobile communications with LG Electronics, has told BNamericas... More
Fime gets PayPass certification
NFC and contactless testing specialist Fime‘s Eval Test Suite has become the first to be qualified by MasterCard for PayPass 3.0, enabling the tool to be used to test contactless terminals for conformance to the payments network’s latest specifications... More
Identive hires former TSM boss
NFC tag and services supplier Identive has hired Matthew Smith as vice president of product and technology management in the company’s Mobility & NFC Solutions group... More
Gilbarco adds NFC to gas pumps
Pay-at-pump market leader Gilbarco Veeder-Root is to demonstrate fuel pumps that accept payments via contactless cards and NFC phones at the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) Show in Chicago in October... More