“For the first time, customers will be able to provision and manage credentials over the air with the same ease and simplicity as downloading a song from a cloud-based music service,” says the employee ID giant. More
Etisalat Misr, Egypt’s leading mobile network operator, has installed an NFC access control system at its premises in Cairo... More
The Korean IT services supplier has partnered with carriers KT and LG U+ to enable employers to use NFC mobile phones to replace staff ID badges. Additional services such as payroll integration and payments are planned for the future. More
The world’s largest mobile network operator has completed development of a China Mobile Wallet running on an NFC version of the Coolpad 8870 smartphone and will begin shipping the device in the third quarter of 2012. More
Vingcard Elsafe has unveiled an NFC-compatible lock for hotel rooms that takes the security hardware off the face of the door to provide a clean, minimalist look... More
Google’s Nexus 7 tablet, launched earlier today, contains a PN65 NFC controller from NXP... More
Korean industrial PDA maker Catchwell is to build NFC into its Android and Windows Mobile 6.5 handheld computers... More
Staff, researchers and students are to pilot test a system that allows keys to doors, meeting rooms and video conferencing facilities to be sent over the air to participants’ NFC phones. More
Arizona State University (ASU) has scooped the National Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU)’s inaugural Innovative Technology Award for its NFC-based mobile access control pilot... More
Some 40,000 Samsung staff based at the electronics giant’s headquarters in Suwon, South Korea, are to begin using NFC phones instead of ID badges to gain access to buildings during the second half of 2012, reports Daum.net... More
Identive unveiled an open standards based NFC physical access control solution at last week’s ISC West tradeshow in Las Vegas... More
Italian mobile network operator Wind has begun an internal NFC pilot, in collaboration with Samsung... More
The GSM Association has produced a video introduction to NFC mobile keys that shows how the technology can bring benefits beyond those offered by traditional keys... More
NXP is to showcase NFC applications from six partners at its booth at the Mobile World Congress next week:... More
The Turkish mobile network operator’s customers now have the option of making payments via a BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone, an own-branded Huawei NFC phone, a new NFC Android handset made by ZTE or with an add-on for a standard mobile. [Updated] More
Samsung has signed a deal with a Spanish university to develop and pilot test the use of NFC phones to track student attendance. More
The access control specialist’s NFC campus pilot is now complete, all participants are reporting positive results and a video showing the system in action has been produced. More
“We look forward to seeing the launch of commercial wallet services in several markets next year,” says the CEO of Telefónica Digital. More
Secure identity specialist HID Global expects its patent “Method and Apparatus for Making a Decision on a Card” to be issued shortly by the USPTO... More
BlackBerry NFC phone users are set to be the first to use their mobile instead of their work ID badge to access buildings and other physical and online facilities, RIM and ID card giant HID Global have revealed. More