Archive for October 2008

Transport for London now looks pretty set on its plan to replace its prepaid Oyster contactless card system with a bank-card compatible solution. Both contactless bank cards and NFC are options being considered and TfL will definitely outsource delivery of the new system to the private sector More

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

Within five years 410 million people will be mobile ticketing users says Juniper Research. Bar code reading issues, lack of reader infrastructure and the availability of NFC handsets means that most of the forecast users will be using their phone to store a ticket they bought elsewhere rather than using their phone to make the purchase. NFC will only reach its tipping point in 2011-2013... More

When it comes to designing NFC ecosystems, solutions that appear to be logical and beneficial for the actors involved may not prove to be in the customers' best interests, says a new report by Dutch technology think tank Rathenau Institute More

A survey of mostly US-based wireless providers has put NFC a distant sixth in terms of investment priorities for 2008. By 2009, though, a more encouraging picture emerges... More

NTT's new patent pending Key-Shuttle platform enables loyalty points, ID photos and other membership information from over a hundred retailers to all be registered and accessed from a customers' mobile phone. More