Rfinity has signed a deal with Citizens Community Bank that sees its NFC payment trial at Brigham Young University’s Idaho campus expanded to include both non-University students and off-campus merchants... More
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China Mobile to drop RF SIM in favour of NFC?
China’s largest mobile network operator is coming under pressure from MIIT, the national technology regulator, to join the Chinese banks and its two rival operators China Unicom and China Telecom in adopting a single, national mobile payments standard based on NFC standard technology. More
Blackboard adds NFC and contactless support to campus card system
Blackboard, which supplies campus card solutions to hundreds of higher education institutes, has launched a new contactless and NFC-compatible version of its Blackboard Transact card system, based on Sony FeliCa contactless technology... More
Banks and mobile operators to go head to head for NFC mobile payments business
Banks and mobile network operators are set to go head to head in a bid to control the market for NFC mobile payments services, according to a new research report published today... More
Swedish Universities begin roll out of NFC payments system
Payments processor Payex is installing a mobile payments system at a number of Swedish universities with more than 100,000 students, initially using NFC stickers but later moving to NFC phones, expected to enrol over the next six months. More
BYU-Idaho students spend, spend, spend with their NFC phones
Students taking part in a new trial of micro-SD based NFC payments at Brigham Young University in Idaho have already used their phones to buy everything from candy bars to $1,600 laptops. More
Brigham Young University to test new NFC microSD solution
Students at BYU-Idaho will begin testing an NFC microSD solution from Rfinity in September. More
Oulu, the little city with big ideas
If you’ve been keeping an eye on NFC you’ll have noticed that a lot of innovative experimentation is taking place in the Finnish town of Oulu. And if you’ve been wondering why a place you’ve otherwise never heard of is at the forefront of testing NFC concepts, an article in Computing magazine now has the explanation you’ve been looking for… More