Carriers and banks around the world can now use the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and the BlackBerry Curve 9360 smartphones to deliver MasterCard-approved NFC mobile payments services. More
Certification
Forum and Continua collaborate
Health industry group Continua Health Alliance and the NFC Forum have agreed to work together to expand connectivity standards in the medical IT field... More
GlobalPlatform marks compliance
GlobalPlatform has introduced a compliance trademark to identify solutions that have met the requirements of the smart card, SIM and NFC secure element standards association’s compliance program... More
NFC Forum readies test tool RFP
The NFC Forum is working on the second wave of its certification programme, due to be completed next year. As part of the project the standards organisation is looking to appoint an RF analog test tool validation services test house... More
Fime gets PayPass certification
NFC and contactless testing specialist Fime‘s Eval Test Suite has become the first to be qualified by MasterCard for PayPass 3.0, enabling the tool to be used to test contactless terminals for conformance to the payments network’s latest specifications... More
Collis launches one stop NFC testing shop
The company’s new Mobile Test Centre enables NFC solutions to be checked for compliance with specifications set by a wide range of industry associations and standards bodies. More
KEBT releases operating system for embedded secure elements
A new version of the smart card and SIM maker’s Kona operating system makes it possible to deliver via an embedded secure element the same wide range of NFC services that mobile network operators can currently offer through an NFC SIM. More
Oberthur gets EAL4+ certification for FlyBuy NFC SIM
Oberthur Technologies has become the first supplier to gain Common Criteria EAL4+ certification for an NFC SIM... More
NFC news in brief • 27 June 2011
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: Korea gets NFC Forum test lab • Verayo hires CTO from Apple • US Bank issues contactless EMV cards • SPVA releases secure payment device standards • Majority don’t trust mobile phone companies • 20m Visa contactless cards in UK by end of year • Groupon ties deals to loyalty cards • Identive appoints NFC VP • and more… 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
Google joins the NFC Forum
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
Gemalto gets MasterCard approval for NFC mobile payment solution
The digital security giant has become the first company to receive certification from the payments network, paving the way for the commercial deployment of mobile payments based on MasterCard’s PayPass technology. More
Fime laboratories receive NFC Forum approval
NFC testing specialist Fime has achieved NFC Forum accreditation for its test laboratory in France... More
No NFC in iPhone 5?
The UK’s Independent newspaper is reporting that Apple has decided not to include near field communication functionality in the next version of the iPhone, due to a “lack of a clear standard across the industry.”... More
AT4 Wireless and Collis to provide full range of NFC test solutions
AT4 Wireless and Collis have teamed up to jointly offer a full range of NFC and mobile payments test solutions... More
NFC Forum approves Clear2Pay’s Integri NFC test solution
The NFC Forum has approved a second NFC test equipment solution, the Integri NFC Test Solution from Clear2Pay ... More
GSMA, EMVCo and GlobalPlatform to develop cross-industry NFC certification process
The three associations will design a model which will allow certification processes to be put in place to ensure that any NFC payments application will work on any platform. More