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Symbian phones to support NFC in 2010
The Symbian Foundation has confirmed it is building support for near field communication into Symbian 3, the second open version of the Symbian platform... More
Apple testing RFID-enabled iPhone?
Einar Rosenberg, the chief technology officer at NFC specialist Narian Technologies and who runs the Near Field Communications Group on Linkedin.com, has reported the following:... More
Zenius adds NFC to standard mobile phones with Bladox Waver
The Bladox Waver is a SIM+antenna solution that is currently being tested by 15 companies in Turkey, India and Europe and can be retrofitted to most mobile handsets, including the iPhone, Android and Blackberry phones. More
Comprion launches SWP/HCI NFC testing solution
Mobile test equipment specialist Comprion has launched a digital Single Wire Protocol (SWP) and Host Controller Interface (HCI) simulator that allows the synchronous simulating and testing of both the contact and contactless sides of NFC communication... More
Smart Stamp wins Touchatag and Microsoft Tag innovation awards for augmented print concept
A US start-up has won two innovation competitions for its ‘interactive correspondence’ concept, an augmented print solution that uses tags and 2D barcodes to update, verify and supplement postal mail. More
Tranzfinity turns mobile phones into POS terminals with Myztro device
Tranzfinity has launched a new solution enabling standard mobile phones to be turned into low cost, contactless card accepting point of sale terminals... More
Ask launches contactless and NFC reader for home PCs
French contactless specialist Ask has launched LoGo, a low cost contactless USB reader compatible with contactless bank cards, NFC, FeliCa and Mifare... More
Inside Contactless to offer single source for full range of alternative NFC form factors
The company is working in partnership with suppliers of all types of NFC form factors, from stickers to microSD cards and Bluetooth devices, to offer a compatible range of options for retrofitting NFC-like services to existing mobile phones. More
Zenius, Charge Anywhere turn NFC phones into low cost POS terminals
The two companies have launched solutions that enable merchants equipped with just an NFC mobile phone to accept contactless bank cards and more. More
Trusted Logic makes it easier to add NFC to Android phones
Trusted Logic has launched an NFC protocol stack for Google Android mobile devices, making it easier for Android device manufacturers to integrate NFC into their handsets and enabling mobile applications to use NFC connectivity built into future Android phones... More
Arygon launches NFC reader platform
NFC and RFID reader module specialist Arygon Technologies has launched a high speed NFC reader hardware and software platform that includes compatibility with both Mifare and FeliCa as standard and can be upgraded to include compatibility with payment card standards as an additional option... More
SCM Microsystems and Dai Nippon Printing to launch NFC-based computer security solutions
SCM Microsystems and Dai Nippon Printing have announced that they are working together on a range of NFC-based computer security solutions, with the first product due to be released next month... More
Twinlinx adding NFC stickers to iPhone and Android
Following on from the news that Twinlinx’s My-Max NFC stickers now work with Windows Mobile 6.5 phones, the company has now revealed that it has an iPhone version already under development and has plans to add Android phones later... More
Sentry Wireless adds budgeting and spending controls to NFC payments
Using a patented firewall for SIM cards, credit and debit card accounts loaded onto an NFC phone can be restricted so that a junior employee can use his corporate card to pay only for petrol and travel expenses or a child can use it only to make purchases in particular retailers. More
Nice and Centre Pompidou to get tailored NFC-based tour guides
Three French firms are working on the Smart Muse NFC tour guide project, designed to let visitors use NFC phones to get information that is tailored by place, time and consumer demographic. More
Yulong to launch NFC phone by end 2009
Chinese handset manufacturer Yulong Computer Telecommunication Scientific is to launch “a dual-module NFC mobile phone at the end of this year”, according to a report in the SinoCast Daily Business Beat (via TMCnet)... More
Inside Contactless adds NFC to MobiNear’s Box kiosks
Proximity and NFC specialist MobiNear has signed a technology partnership agreement with Inside Contactless... More
Tyfone granted patent for adding NFC to phones via a memory card
The ‘Electronic Transaction Card’ patent covers the use of a memory card as an electronic wallet and the ability to use that memory card for the secure transmission of financial information. More
Vivotech readies for mass market with enterprise class NFC solution
The NFC specialist’s VivoNFC over-the-air provisioning system is now available for Sun’s Solaris 10 operating system, following demand from clients planning mass market NFC deployments, says Vivotech’s CEO. More