Innovision Research & Technology has launched BuyNFC.com, an online store for NFC application developers and consumers looking to purchase NFC tags... More
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New Apple patent shows NFC-enabled iPod, games controller, TV and iPhone
A newly published Apple patent application explains how near field communication could be used to enable a wide range of devices to share resources within a connected ‘Apple TV Living Room’. More
Finalists announced for 2010 NFC Forum Global Competition
The NFC Forum has announced the twenty finalists for its 2010 Global Competition... More
VTT video shows NFC social networking service in action
Finnish technical research institute VTT has produced a video showing its NFC-based social networking concept in action:... More
Wima unveils speakers for annual NFC conference and exhibition
The fourth annual Wima NFC event, to be held in Monaco from 20-22 April 2010, will include exhibitors from around the world plus conference streams and workshops focusing on both the technical and business issues surrounding near field communication. More
NFC Forum adds 19 new members
Nineteen additional companies from fourteen countries have signed up to become members of the NFC Forum... More
NFC Forum spec adds digital signatures to prevent tag tampering
The standards body has published an important draft specification that will enable developers to protect NFC tags in smart posters and other applications from being tampered with or replaced with an imposter tag. More
NFC Forum joins up with GSMA, EMVCo and Smart Card Alliance
The NFC Forum has signed a series of agreements, with the GSM Association (GSMA), EMVCo and the Smart Card Alliance, designed to enable it to work more closely with each of the associations on the development of the NFC market and near field communication-based solutions... More
Inside Contactless makes it easier to add NFC to mobile handsets
The NFC specialist is making its NFC protocol stack available via an Apache open source license, in a move that should make it simpler and easier for manufacturers to add NFC functionality to mobile phones and other devices. More
NFC Forum offers competition guidance via webcast
The NFC Forum is hosting a webcast at 8am EST on 20 January to provide potential entrants in its annual global competition with tips on what the judges are looking for... More
The 2010 NFC Forum Global Competition is open for entries
Prize money totalling €15,000 is available for the top entries in this year’s NFC Forum Global Competition, again featuring separate tracks for both innovative research projects and commercial solutions. More
Yulong to launch NFC phone by end 2009
Chinese handset manufacturer Yulong Computer Telecommunication Scientific is to launch “a dual-module NFC mobile phone at the end of this year”, according to a report in the SinoCast Daily Business Beat (via TMCnet)... More
NFC Forum and Mobey Forum to work together on the development of mobile payments standards
The NFC trade association has signed a collaboration agreement with the international mobile financial services forum to develop open standards for the delivery of secure, interoperable mobile financial transactions. 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
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
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
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
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
Innovision deals expected to lead to low-cost mass market NFC phones
Three new licensing deals should see NFC being built into mass market handsets for under $1 — but not until 2013, says Innovision CEO David Wollen. More
NFC Forum publishes candidate specs for device interoperability and peer-to-peer communication
The NFC Digital Protocol and the Logical Link Control Protocol candidate specifications are now available to download from the NFC Forum website. More