Isis saw its user adoption growth rate double last month and is now adding an average of 20,000 new users a day, Michael Abbott, CEO of the US carrier-led NFC venture, has revealed... More
Isis reports 20,000 new mobile wallet users a day
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Bertolli runs NFC marketing campaign in US stores
Bertolli Olive Oil is to use News America Marketing and Thinaire‘s SmartSource with NFC service to deliver recipes, videos and ingredients lists to shoppers while they are in the relevant aisle of a supermarket... More
Fidesmo unveils NFC ticketing service that stores multiple transit passes on one contactless card
Swedish startup Fidesmo has developed a service that lets NFC phone owners replace multiple, physical transport passes with a single contactless card... More
Brightwire: Apple signs mobile payments deal with China UnionPay
“Apple is likely to incorporate a near field communication (NFC) payment function in the next generation iPhone and has reached an agreement with China UnionPay on a mobile payment service,” investment newswire Brightwire reports, citing “a source close to the matter”... More
Save 20% on NFCP Summit
London’s NFCP Global Summit, a conference on proximity technologies in payments, retail, transportation and access control to be held on June 4 and 5, is offering NFC World+ readers an exclusive 20% discount on delegate places... More
Vodafone adds support for barcode loyalty and membership cards to NFC wallet
Mobile network operator Vodafone is expanding the functionality of its mobile wallet beyond NFC with a deal to add Austria-based Bluesource’s Mobile-Pocket technology to the service, enabling customers to store hundreds of loyalty, membership, transit and promotional cards in their Vodafone wallet by simply scanning them in using the camera on their smartphone. More
Nintendo to launch NFC toys and payments
A new Nintendo Figurine Platform and a range of NFC toys that makes use of the NFC functionality in the Wii U GamePad is to be unveiled at the E3 games show next month, company president Satoru Iwata has announced. A standalone device that will enable NFC toys to be used with the Nintendo 3DS handheld console will also be introduced and NFC payments for games are to added, initially in Japan, from this summer. More
Introducing NFC World+, the new way to keep up to date with the mobile transaction revolution
Starting today, NFC World has a new name and a new mission — to report on the full array of emerging technologies that are transforming how consumers choose what to buy, who to buy from, and how to pay... More
Tribeca Film Festival fans get free passes via NFC
More than 1,000 film fans attending last month’s Tribeca Film Festival tapped a promotional poster with an NFC phone to get a free movie ticket, technology providers HID Global and Tamoco report... More
RBC expands NFC wallet
The Royal Bank of Canada has expanded the functionality and availability of its cloud-based RBC Wallet... More
London venue picks Poken to add NFC interactions to events
Exhibition and convention centre ExCel London is to use technology from Poken to provide event organisers with an NFC-based digital networking and content collection platform... More
Sequent adds HCE to NFC platform
Sequent Software has added support for cloud-based issuance, tokenization and host card emulation (HCE) to its digital issuance platform... More
Credit Mutuel to test mobile wallet
French bank Credit Mutuel-CIC is to pilot a mobile wallet in the Boulogne-Billancourt area of Paris from May 17, Les Echos reports, enabling consumers to make payments via NFC or QR in around 100 stores... More
Ingenic unveils developer board for wearable devices with NFC
Chinese embedded CPU provider Ingenic Semiconductor has unveiled a MIPS-based developer board that can be used to create wearable, healthcare and industrial devices that include a wide range of environmental sensors and wireless communications interfaces. More
Midrange Samsung gets NFC
Samsung’s Galaxy Ace Style mid-range smartphone, announced this week, is to come with NFC... More
Philippines tourists get NFC info
A visitor information service that combines ebooks and mobile apps with NFC and QR codes placed at tourist attractions is to be expanded across the Philippines... More
NFC onesie gets SXSW outing
A prototype “onesie” jumpsuit has been developed that enables the location of the wearer to be tracked and can communicate using built-in NFC, WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS. More
LG adds NFC washing machine
LG has unveiled a range of eco-friendly washing machines that can be paired with a consumer’s smartphone via NFC... More
Mahindra adds NFC, QR and BLE wallet
Mahindra Comviva has introduced Mobiquity Wallet, a digital wallet platform that supports QR codes, Bluetooth LE and NFC... More
Samsung grows NFC print range
Samsung has expanded its NFC printer range with two new lines aimed at the SMB market... More