A consultation paper published by the UK’s Department for Transport sets out plans for a national, integrated ticketing system that could save £2bn a year. More
- Atac pilots contactless fare payments on buses in Rome
- Nigeria to let consumers use feature phones to make payments with national digital currency
- Central bank rolls out national contactless transit ticketing system in Costa Rica
- Ethiopian government adds health records to contactless cards
- RBR: More than 12,000 checkout-free contactless stores to be in operation by 2027
Gearing up for handset production
OPINION: In some ways, NFC seems very simple. Stick an RF antenna in a phone, link it to a secure element so that sensitive data can be stored safely, and off you go. Or maybe not… More
What’s the current state and future potential of NFC in the Americas?
Work is now almost complete on the Asia-Pacific section of The NFC Report, the new research report being written by Near Field Communications World’s editor, Sarah Clark. Now, our attention is turning to the Americas… More
Jobs Board: Want to get involved in adding NFC to Windows Mobile?
We’ve three new vacancies on the NFC Jobs Board, including a Program Manager for connectivity reliability for Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Connectivity team, covering everything from NFC to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to WiMax… More
Telefónica O2 joins Deutsche Bahn’s NFC ticketing project
The mobile operator has joined Vodafone and T-Mobile in the German rail company’s Touch&Travel NFC ticketing project, as it heads towards a major expansion of the pilot testing area and a future nationwide commercial launch. More
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Stollmann and STMicroelectronics to offer turnkey NFC interface solutions to handset suppliers
The two companies will offer handset manufacturers a combined NFC handset hardware and software solution, making it quicker and easier to integrate NFC into their mobile devices. More
€5,000 in prize money offered for NFC-based city game concepts
The Vienna Jungle Scrum developer challenge, run by Touchatag and Mobilkom A1, is on the hunt for a top NFC-based city game with both prize money and the chance to see your game get made and played for real up for grabs. More
NFC Forum adds new, lower cost membership for Implementers
The new ‘Implementers’ category halves the cost of membership for companies looking to build NFC solutions. More
Innovision raises £5.4 million to fund its next phase of NFC growth
The funding will enable the company to capitalise on international opportunities in both the NFC and the RFID markets. More
Build the brand and they will come
OPINION: One way to put yourself in prime position on the day NFC handsets finally become widely available is to start building your brand now, regardless of whether there are limits on the level of service you can currently offer. More
41 NFC-related trials and launches in the Asia-Pacific region so far…
Including sticker-based and other non-NFC Forum standard systems, we’ve identified 41 NFC trials and commercial launches in our research for the Asia-Pacific section of The NFC Report, the new research report being written by Near Field Communications World’s editor, Sarah Clark. More
Brigham Young University to test new NFC microSD solution
Students at BYU-Idaho will begin testing an NFC microSD solution from Rfinity in September. More
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Disneyland Paris to test NFC and contactless cards from October
Customers of Crédit Mutuel and CIC banks in the Paris region can take part in a trial of both NFC and contactless card payments due to take place at the resort from October. More
Does Nokia have plans to launch its own NFC payments service?
The handset giant has submitted international trademark applications for a new brand name, ‘Nokia Money’, described as a financial transaction service providing secure transactions using a mobile phone at a point of sale. More
Telefónica launches O2 Money, says it is ready to deploy NFC
The new O2 Money offering is a low-tech prepaid card solution for now but, says O2, this is just the first step in the operator’s plans to be at the forefront of the move towards the rollout of NFC technology in the UK. More
Italian fashion house launches NFC loyalty and marketing programme
Customers of Miroglio Fashion can use NFC phones to collect and redeem loyalty points at the company’s five factory outlets and, later, at all eighty sales outlets across Italy. More
Zapa to seed NFC stickers and terminals to ‘strategic retailers’
More details of the services to be offered by the Irish start-up, which secured €2.5m in funding earlier this month, have now been revealed. More
Introducing The NFC Report, our new industry research project
OPINION: We’ve been burning the midnight oil for the last few weeks here at NFCW, putting the finishing touches to the website for our new research project, The NFC Report. More
First pages from The NFC Report now available to view free of charge
The first sections of a new research report by Sarah Clark, editor of Near Field Communications World, are now complete. Sample pages can now be viewed free of charge on The NFC Report’s website — and NFCW readers who order the report by 31 July can save 15% on the usual pre-publication price. More
Apple to build NFC into the next generation iPhone’s touchscreen?
A patent application for a ‘Touch Screen RFID Tag Reader’, filed by Apple in December 2007, has been published on the US Patent & Trademark Office website. More
