Financial software company Intuit is showcasing a concept demonstration at the Google I/O developers conference in California this week that reimagines its GoPayment mobile credit card processing application using near field communication... More
Delegates attending the Google I/O developer conference in California this week will be able to check in to Foursquare using NFC phones... More
The appearance, and then swift disappearance, of a job vacancy for someone to head up a new ‘mobile wallet and offers division’ at Google provides the strongest confirmation yet that the internet giant has big plans for NFC. More
“Every time we talk to our friends at Google, they tell us to double the numbers for the Android expectations,” says NXP CEO Rick Clemmer. More
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: New online NFC store • eBay buys hyperlocal ads firm • Connecthings launches reader/writer app • Google’s Groupon rival hits Portland • Chase offers chip and pin in US • Visa and Gap working on real-time mobile discounts • Nokia to transfer Symbian jobs • and a brace of research reports… More
“We’re working with Google on the development of NFC applications for merchants,” the chief executive of POS terminal maker Ingenico has told French reporters. More
Razorfish, one of the world’s top digital marketing agencies, has released a report that includes NFC as one of the top five technologies that marketers should now be watching closely... More
Tourist information centres in the Spanish city of Caceres are to distribute Google Nexus S NFC phones to visitors, to allow them to access museums, receive promotional coupons and obtain information about the city’s sights. More
Identive’s ACIG Technology subsidiary has been picked as the exclusive supplier of NFC stickers for the Austin, Texas roll-out of the search engine giant’s Google Places local recommendation service. More
The Silicon Valley-based startup has unveiled a hardware-neutral NFC platform that, co-founder John Wiese has told NFC World, will allow developers to write software applications once and then deploy them on multiple types of NFC phone. More
Google has dropped support for QR codes in its Google Places service, the company has confirmed... More
The internet giant is one of 32 new members of the NFC standards organisation. Other well known names to join the association include car maker Daimler and electronics giant Hitachi. More
Software giant Microsoft could be introducing NFC capabilities to Windows mobile phones as soon as this year, according to Bloomberg:... More
Charge Anywhere has unveiled new mobile payment software which can transform Google’s Nexus S smartphone into an NFC payment terminal... More
Google is working with MasterCard and Citigroup on the introduction of NFC mobile payments services, the Wall Street Journal reports:... More
With everyone from Apple, Google and PayPal to mobile operators, coupon issuers and social networks set to need access to contactless POS terminals to bring their NFC plans to market, Verifone’s Paul Rasori tells NFC World how these new players could gain access to merchants’ points-of-sale — and who should foot the bill. More
A 4G version of the Nexus S has been launched by Google today... More
Visitors to the recent Sundance Film Festival were able to take part in Pandemic 1.0, a virtual treasure hunt set in a fictional world that brought together NFC phones and tags, social media and a real-world mission control set up to look like a disease-control hub. More
Don Kingsborough, founder of prepaid payments specialist Blackhawk Network, has joined PayPal as the online payments giant moves further towards the world of offline shopping... More
Google is planning to begin an NFC mobile payments trial in stores in New York and San Francisco within the next four months, according to “two people familiar with the project,” Bloomberg reports:... More