NFC Forum adds support for Type V tags
The NFC Forum has released a new candidate specification that extends the functionality of NFC devices to include formal support for a new category of NFC tag... More
Logical Link Control Protocol (LLCP)
Fime gets NFC Forum analog testing qualification
NFC testing specialist Fime has announced that its labs in Asia, EMEA and Korea have been qualified to perform NFC Forum analog certification testing More
NFC Forum expands certification program
The NFC Forum has added analog testing to its certification program, enabling device manufacturers to prove that their products are compliant with international radio frequency (RF) performance specifications for the first time... More
NFC Forum updates specs with support for pairing at a distance
New versions of nine NFC Forum specifications have been published today, including version 1.3 of the NFC Connection Handover Technical Specification which now provides a way to use an intermediary NFC device to set up a connection between two other NFC devices located at a distance from each other... More
IETF proposes NFC P2P security
The Internet Engineering Task Force‘s TLS working group has published a draft document that describes the implementation of the TLS (transport layer security) protocol over the NFC LLCP layer... More
NFC Forum publishes peer-to-peer communications specification
The new SNEP specification employs the same NDEF commands used in tag reading and writing applications, allowing information stored on an NFC tag to be read by a phone and then passed on to other NFC phones or exchanged with a wide range of other types of NFC-enabled device. More
Uncovered: The hidden NFC potential of the Google Nexus S and the Nokia C7
Mobile and NFC experts Dr Gerald Madlmayr and Christian Kantner have taken apart both a Nokia C7 and a Google Nexus S to find out what’s inside and what kind of services it will be possible to offer via the handsets in the future — and to build a Nexus S that can operate in full card emulation mode. Here Dr Madlmayr explains what he and Kantner discovered… 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
