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
- 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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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
Citi launches NFC trial in India
The financial services giant has partnered with Nokia, Vodafone, MasterCard and Vivotech to launch an NFC field trial in the Indian city of Bangalore. More
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Sheetz to roll out mobile Go-Tags
Following a successful field test using NFC phones, the 350-unit US convenience store chain has chosen to go ahead with a roll out of contactless mobile payments — using contactless stickers produced by First Data. More
Startup to launch large scale NFC customer loyalty project in Ireland
Startup Zapa Technology has raised €2.5m in funding to deploy contactless readers and ‘Zapa Tags’ that will showcase Ireland as “a model for the deployment and execution of NFC services”. More
Bling Nation goes live in Colorado
The State Bank in Colorado has become the first bank to sign up for Bling Nation’s mobile contactless sticker-based local payments system. More
Motorola joins NFC patent pool
The mobile communications giant has added its NFC-related patents to a pool of IP and rights managed and made available for joint licensing by Via Licensing. More
Demand for mobile payments at the point of sale drives creative solutions to lack of NFC handsets
OPINION: The question of how to begin offering mass market NFC services when inexpensive NFC phones are still some time away is finally beginning to resolve itself. More
Canadian operators zoom past NFC
Zoompass, a joint venture between Canada’s three leading mobile operators, is taking a new approach to the lack of NFC handsets by linking its new mobile wallet to a standard prepaid bank card. More
Finnish firms to offer low volume customised NFC tags over the web
RFID and NFC tag specialist UPM Raflatac and Scandinavia’s largest printing services provider have teamed up to provide a new service offering customised NFC tags and labels. More
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Paris transport operators to launch NFC ticketing from the end of 2010
From the end of next year passengers on the Paris Metro, local trains and the region’s buses will begin to be able to buy their tickets and get them validated using an NFC phone. More
Twinlinx signs development deal with Bouygues Telecom incubator
The French mobile network operator is providing financial backing and resources to Twinlinx, the start-up developing a sticker that can add full NFC functionality to any Bluetooth-enabled phone. More
Dairy Queen tests stickers for targeted mobile coupon campaigns
“Tetherball’s sticker-based mobile marketing service lets us provide great offers to our customers in a fun and easy way,” says the desserts and fast food restaurant chain. More
Belgacom and Alcatel-Lucent to develop open payments system
Belgacom’s PingPing and Alcatel-Lucent’s Touchatag are creating an open system that will allow consumers to use contactless cards, stickers or NFC phones to access services developed by a range of technology suppliers, operators and application developers. More
NHS tests NFC for home care visits
The UK’s National Health Service is conducting several pilots of O2’s new Homecare solution, designed to help both homecare workers and patients access and share information. More
NFC Forum reveals N-Mark symbol
The stylized ‘N’ symbol is designed to make it easy for consumers to spot embedded NFC tags in everything from posters to bus stop signs and medicines to food packaging and magazine pages. More
Handset suppliers gear up for NFC
OPINION: Samples of a new NFC chip, compliant with all the latest industry standards, are now in the hands of ‘a number of major handset manufacturers’, says NXP, ahead of mass market availability towards the end of this year. More
Top handset manufacturers begin sampling NXP’s PN544 NFC chip
The PN544 NFC controller is the first fully industry standard NFC handset chip, offering compliance with the Single Wire Protocol and with Mifare. More