Anyone who expected to visit Cartes 2008 and find just the odd NFC application hidden somewhere round the back of a small stand lost in the outer reaches of the exhibition hall was in for quite a surprise — Near Field Communications World spotted forty companies talking NFC at this year’s event… More
- Coors Field combines age verification with biometric payments for baseball fans buying alcoholic beverages
- Convenience store in Finland offers automated contactless shopping using RFID tags
- Sixteen banks, payments and technology firms to pilot digital Hong Kong dollar
- Swiss football club launches NFC scarves that let fans into the stadium on match day
- Bengaluru to introduce QR code-based auto-rickshaw complaints service
Welcome, Using RFID readers!
Today Near Field Communications World is pleased to welcome readers of Using RFID, which has been acquired by SJB Research… More
MasterCard makes it easier for member banks to launch NFC services
The new Mobile MasterCard PayPass solution makes it much easier for MasterCard member banks to offer NFC-based payment services to their cardholders More
Welcome to Near Field Communications World
It’s taken a while, but near field communication does now seem to be firmly on the road to becoming an accepted, mass-market technology. More
Malaysia to get commercial NFC launch in January?
After a successful trial involving NFC-based retail and transit payments, Malaysia’s Maxis Communications and Maybank are reported to be planning a commercial launch in January 2009 More
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Turkey moves towards multi-bank, multi-operator NFC pilot
A one year NFC pilot is to take place in Turkey from January 2009, coordinated by the national card payments clearing centre BKM. Nine banks and two mobile operators are reported to have already signed up to take part… More
TfL reports to London Assembly on future of Oyster
Transport for London now looks pretty set on its plan to replace its prepaid Oyster contactless card system with a bank-card compatible solution. Both contactless bank cards and NFC are options being considered and TfL will definitely outsource delivery of the new system to the private sector More
Oulu, the little city with big ideas
If you’ve been keeping an eye on NFC you’ll have noticed that a lot of innovative experimentation is taking place in the Finnish town of Oulu. And if you’ve been wondering why a place you’ve otherwise never heard of is at the forefront of testing NFC concepts, an article in Computing magazine now has the explanation you’ve been looking for… More
Mobile ticketing to reach 410m users by 2013
Within five years 410 million people will be mobile ticketing users says Juniper Research. Bar code reading issues, lack of reader infrastructure and the availability of NFC handsets means that most of the forecast users will be using their phone to store a ticket they bought elsewhere rather than using their phone to make the purchase. NFC will only reach its tipping point in 2011-2013… More
Dutch think tank reports on the impact of NFC and consumer data privacy issues
When it comes to designing NFC ecosystems, solutions that appear to be logical and beneficial for the actors involved may not prove to be in the customers’ best interests, says a new report by Dutch technology think tank Rathenau Institute More
Operators ready to invest in mobile commerce and coupons — but NFC is not yet a priority
A survey of mostly US-based wireless providers has put NFC a distant sixth in terms of investment priorities for 2008. By 2009, though, a more encouraging picture emerges… More
NTT to trial technology that stores loyalty cards on mobile phones
NTT’s new patent pending Key-Shuttle platform enables loyalty points, ID photos and other membership information from over a hundred retailers to all be registered and accessed from a customers’ mobile phone. More
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