Archive for November 2009

The Washington think tank recommends ways in which government can help to get NFC and mobile contactless services off the ground. More

MasterCard Canada has teamed up with Research in Motion and BMO Bank of Montreal to test a system that combines PayPass contactless stickers with email confirmation of each transaction sent to the user's BlackBerry smartphone. More

Mobile network operator Orange has developed an NFC Application Developer Toolkit and made it available as open source software.  IzyNFC is designed to enable the development of mobile NFC applications based on a SIM-centric architecture... More

Mobile operator Du and card issuer Dubai First have begun distributing handsets to trial participants ahead of the launch in the next two weeks of the Middle East's first NFC mobile payments pilot. First announced... More

The small town of Tuam in County Galway, Eire, has introduced a loyalty scheme based on Zapa Technology's mobile contactless stickers with the aim of encouraging local people to do more of their shopping in the town. More

The company's new Celsius NFC platform enables application developers to write code once and then port it reliably to a range of NFC handsets and add-on devices. More

Vivotech has launched a new contactless sticker product and a backend loyalty system aimed at retailers and other companies looking to launch mobile contactless loyalty and couponing programmes. The new Vivotag contactless sticker is available... More

A deal between Chinese bank card association China UnionPay (CUP) and mobile operator China Unicom is set to see the introduction of a series of co-branded mobile payments services. Described as "a comprehensive strategic cooperation... More

ABnote Europe and Sicap have signed a collaboration agreement designed to cut the cost of operating NFC services. The 'traditional' NFC business model calls for the establishment of a Trusted Service Manager or TSM which... More

OPINION: The Cartes show in Paris this week was a hotbed of new NFC product launches, firmly putting it on the list of must-attend events for anyone looking to keep on top of developments in the NFC industry. More

Many thanks to all the NFC suppliers from around the world who have been in touch with us over the last couple of weeks to let us know about their products and services. If you haven't yet been in contact with us, now is the time to email us to make sure your company is included in the suppliers section of The NFC Report. More

The mobile money market in Western Europe is set to grow to between 4 and 5 billion Euros by 2013, according to a new forecast by Frost & Sullivan. 'Money in Mobile -- European Transactions'... More

The Japanese electronics manufacturer's new rugged PDA is equipped with both 3G mobile data and a range of functions for retrieving and gathering data in the field — including NFC.  More

NXP Semiconductor has been ranked at the top of the latest edition of ABI Research's Contactless Transaction IC Vendor Matrix. Inside Contactless and Infineon Technologies claimed the second and third spots in the matrix, which... More

The number of locations that accept contactless payments is set to increase by over 12.5 million by the end of 2013, according to the latest data from IMS Research. According to 'The World Market for... More

Payter's NFC service in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is to cease operations on 1 December because "there was insufficient scale to further develop existing services". More

Trusted Logic is to demonstrate peer-to-peer connection of mobile handsets through its Trusted NFC software platform for Google Android operating system at Cartes 2009 next week. "NFC peer-to-peer connection is the latest feature added to... More

Hot on the heels of the news that Apple has an RFID-enabled iPhone prototype, a new patent application provides details of how the company sees NFC being used to make it easy for customers to transfer files between devices such as the Mac, iPhone and Apple TV. More

Ericsson Labs has launched Tag Tools, a set of developer tools for working with NFC and RFID tags. Tag Tools consists of a simple web interface for creating tags and a mobile client for writing... More

STMicroelectronics and NXP have signed a licensing deal that will see STMicroelectronics integrating the entire Mifare family into its security solutions for mobile phone and banking applications. The deal "will facilitate the convergence of the... More