Archive for September 2010

New research from mobile wallet solution provider Alcatel-Lucent has found that young consumers in ten countries around the world are willing to pay for the convenience of using their phone to check their balance, pay for public transport and buy electronic tickets. More

Japanese electronics supplier Dai Nippon Printing has entered the NFC controller market with the announcement of a new product which, the company says, takes up only half the space in a mobile phone of the... More

The Bling Nation NFC sticker trial in Silicon Valley has expanded from its beginnings at PayPal's headquarters to include the Stanford University campus, Palo Alto city services and Facebook's offices — as rumours of a major NFC play by some of Silicon Valley's leading companies begin to emerge.  More

DeviceFidelity has announced an iPhone 4 version of the NFC-enabling iPhone case it first released in May. The new In2Pay iCaisse4 acts as a protective bumper for the iPhone 4 and incorporates a slot to... More

The payments processing giant has signed a deal with Korea's SK C&C, responsible for the technology behind SK Telecom's mobile contactless payments service, and will begin offering a turnkey NFC payments service to US banks from the first quarter of 2011. More

OPINION: After years of low profile technical development, it's now becoming clear that the commercial arrival of NFC is going to be very high profile indeed. And that high profile is set to bring further complications to those looking to commercialise NFC services. More

The first mass production units of Sagem Wireless' new NFC Cosyphone will begin shipping later this month and a few pre-production models are now in the hands of developers, partners — and NFC World. More

T-Mobile, Vodafone, KPN, ABN Amro, ING and Rabobank have signed a letter of intent to jointly introduce NFC across the Netherlands from 2012. More

Vivotech and DeviceFidelity have partnered to add over-the-air (OTA) provisioning capabilities to the In2Pay microSD technology to be tested by Visa, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, US Bank and Akbank. The new solution enables Vivotech's... More

Mobile network operators and service providers could save hundreds of thousands of dollars using SecureSMS to provision and personalise NFC applications over the air, says CellTrust's CEO. More

"The investors who participated in our Series B financing round bring unique expertise within financial services and we'll benefit from their knowledge beyond the value of their financial investment in Tyfone," says the company's CEO. More

US financial services giant Wells Fargo & Co has become the fourth bank to reveal that it is to take part in Visa's series of NFC trials. And Visa could be ready to launch commercial... More

Three months after it announced plans to buy NFC specialist Innovision for US$47.5m, the deal has completed and Broadcom VP Craig Ochikubo has spoken to NFC World about the company's ambitions for Innovision and for the NFC market as a whole. More