Vodafone is testing NFC technology in New Zealand, the mobile network operator’s local chief executive Russell Stanners has told The New Zealand Herald... More
Vodafone tests NFC in New Zealand
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BPCE and Visa to test NFC microSD in Nice and Strasbourg
BPCE, France’s second largest banking group and owner of both Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne, is teaming up with Visa to conduct a pilot test of NFC MicroSD cards in the cities of Nice and Strasbourg this autumn... More
DeviceFidelity granted new NFC patent
NFC microSD specialist DeviceFidelity has been awarded a US patent, number 7,942,337, for “an implementation of near field communication (NFC) technology for enabling mobile devices to function like mobile wallets capable of conducting payment, access, transit and other contactless transactions using credentials issued by multiple different enterprises through points of sale terminals.”... More
VimpelCom and Ambiq provide NFC ticketing for St Petersburg Metro
The Russian telecoms giant has partnered with the NFC specialist to allow St Petersburg commuters to use their mobile phones to pay for their tickets, in the first stage of a planned national NFC service. More
IDA demos NFC ‘smart shopping’ service
Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), the government agency tasked with implementing a national NFC infrastructure for Singapore, is demonstrating a number of “rich mobile NFC services” at the imbX tradeshow in Singapore... More
Netcom unveils NFC microSD add-on
Chinese electronics manufacturer Netcom has demonstrated an NFC-enabled microSD card at the Computex 2011 show in Taipei... More
NFC news in brief • 17 May 2011
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: US files lawsuit against Verifone/Hypercom deal • iPhone 5 unlikely to support NFC payments, says analyst • ‘Paper’ phone unveiled • Vivotech adds NFC to mag stripe terminals • Hashable adds NFC to contacts app • Sequent raises funds • Connecthings invests in Lifera • and more… More
Think&Go introduces NFC shopping engine
The new system combines NFC tags placed on product labels and shelf-edges with a ‘preference engine’ stored on a consumer’s mobile phone so that, for instance, shoppers can be alerted if a food product contains an ingredient they are allergic to or does not meet their pre-set shopping preferences. More
One million Chinese consumers adopt Watchdata’s NFC technology in just four months
Growth in the Chinese mobile payments market has helped Watchdata sell another million of its NFC Simpass devices in just four months. More
DeviceFidelity adds NFC support for Android and Mifare
DeviceFidelity has announced that its In2Pay microSD format NFC devices can now be used in Android phones... More
DeviceFidelity signs up first licensees for its In2Pay NFC microSD solution
DeviceFidelity has signed up the first licensees for its microSD format NFC solution, UK mobile payments provider Monitise and US mobile solutions provider Ecrio, and has announced version 2 of its In2Pay product, adding support for EMV compliant payment applications and for Mifare ticketing applications... More
iPhone device shows NFC add-ons can look good
A slot on device that enables NFC functionality to be added to Apple iPhones has been announced by Canadian NFC and RFID specialist Wireless Dynamics... More
Mobile Distillery makes it easier to write NFC apps for multiple devices
The company’s new Celsius NFC platform enables application developers to write code once and then port it reliably to a range of NFC handsets and add-on devices. More
DeviceFidelity launches low cost microSD-based NFC solution
In2Pay is designed to be distributed to customers using a card issuer’s existing personalisation and distribution infrastructure and can include multiple applications such as payments and transit or payments and access control. More