Archive for July 2009

OPINION: One way to put yourself in prime position on the day NFC handsets finally become widely available is to start building your brand now, regardless of whether there are limits on the level of service you can currently offer. More

Including sticker-based and other non-NFC Forum standard systems, we've identified 41 NFC trials and commercial launches in our research for the Asia-Pacific section of The NFC Report, the new research report being written by Near Field Communications World's editor, Sarah Clark.  More

Students at BYU-Idaho will begin testing an NFC microSD solution from Rfinity in September. More

Customers of Crédit Mutuel and CIC banks in the Paris region can take part in a trial of both NFC and contactless card payments due to take place at the resort from October. More

The handset giant has submitted international trademark applications for a new brand name, 'Nokia Money', described as a financial transaction service providing secure transactions using a mobile phone at a point of sale.  More

The new O2 Money offering is a low-tech prepaid card solution for now but, says O2, this is just the first step in the operator's plans to be at the forefront of the move towards the rollout of NFC technology in the UK. More

Customers of Miroglio Fashion can use NFC phones to collect and redeem loyalty points at the company's five factory outlets and, later, at all eighty sales outlets across Italy. More

More details of the services to be offered by the Irish start-up, which secured €2.5m in funding earlier this month, have now been revealed. More

OPINION: We've been burning the midnight oil for the last few weeks here at NFCW, putting the finishing touches to the website for our new research project, The NFC Report.  More

The first sections of a new research report by Sarah Clark, editor of Near Field Communications World, are now complete. Sample pages can now be viewed free of charge on The NFC Report's website — and NFCW readers who order the report by 31 July can save 15% on the usual pre-publication price. More

A patent application for a 'Touch Screen RFID Tag Reader', filed by Apple in December 2007, has been published on the US Patent & Trademark Office website.  More

The financial services giant has partnered with Nokia, Vodafone, MasterCard and Vivotech to launch an NFC field trial in the Indian city of Bangalore.  More

Following a successful field test using NFC phones, the 350-unit US convenience store chain has chosen to go ahead with a roll out of contactless mobile payments — using contactless stickers produced by First Data. More

Startup Zapa Technology has raised €2.5m in funding to deploy contactless readers and 'Zapa Tags' that will showcase Ireland as "a model for the deployment and execution of NFC services". More

The State Bank in Colorado has become the first bank to sign up for Bling Nation's mobile contactless sticker-based local payments system. More

The mobile communications giant has added its NFC-related patents to a pool of IP and rights managed and made available for joint licensing by Via Licensing. More