Archive for January 2011

News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: Getyoo pings Belgacom • Mobey Forum expands • Clear2Pay goes to South Africa • Facebook takes the credit • Vancouver to go contactless • ...and Philadelphia to follow • Airtel Money launch • CreditCall's EMV ticketing kernel. More

LG Electronics plans to launch a range of NFC-enabled B2B products in 2012, the vice president for business solutions at the company's Home Entertainment division has told Reuters. The products will be introduced in Europe... More

A survey conducted by Visa Europe in the UK, Italy, Poland and Turkey in advance of the launch has found that 87% of iPhone users would be willing to attach an add-on to their phone in order to make mobile payments. More

BlackBerry tracking site CrackBerry has got hold of a confidential RIM presentation describing the company's CDMA product introduction plans for 2011. The presentation confirms RIM's commitment to including near field communication in future devices but... More

The payments network and multi-national mobile network operator are to form a joint venture which will develop mobile financial solutions in the twelve countries in Latin America covered by Telefónica's Movistar brand. More

A team from Stanford's MobiSocial lab has developed two applications for the Google Nexus S that use NFC's peer-to-peer capabilty: A phone-to-phone file transfer service and a collaborative whiteboard. More

Isis has appointed Ryan Hughes as its chief marketing officer, responsible for marketing the NFC mobile payments joint venture to merchants, advertisers and other businesses across the US, All Things Digital reports. Hughes joins Isis... More

Osama Bedier, PayPal's vice president of product development and a key player in the company's move towards mobile payments, has joined Google. In a post on the PayPal blog, Scott Guilfoyle, the company's CTO, writes... More

"The companies that succeed will be those that take the time to gain an understanding of the needs of each of the parties involved and then design an infrastructure that provides a win:win:win solution for all," according to our new 'NFC Business Models' research report, which officially launches today. More

British consumers will be able to use NFC phones to make payments at stores across the country from the second quarter of this year, Barclaycard and Everything Everywhere have announced. More

An NFC development house in Argentina has discovered hidden code in Android 2.3 Gingerbread that enables the Google Nexus S to write to NFC tags as well as read them. More

The Apple NFC rumour mill has swung into action again today, with new speculation that the company plans to include near field communication in both the next iPhone and the next iPad — and could... More

MasterCard Worldwide has hired Mung-Ki Woo as its new 'group executive, mobile'. Woo is a well known figure in the NFC industry and joins MasterCard from France Telecom Orange Group, where he was vice president... More

News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: MasterCard wins Oyster deal • PayPal nears 100m accounts • Proxama buys Hypertag • Palm tablets to include NFC? • Contactless grows in the UK • NTT Docomo, KT and China Mobile tie up. More

Coffee giant Starbucks has announced that its mobile payment service, first introduced on a pilot basis in Seattle and Silicon Valley during September 2009, is to be rolled out across the US. The decision to... More

Despite plans for a major expansion of the high profile pre-commercial NFC trial in Nice and Orange's ambitions to sell 500,000 NFC phones this year, a survey of French consumer attitudes has found that the majority are not in favour of using a phone to make payments. More

The NFC Forum has published a white paper that provides an introduction to the potential uses and benefits of NFC technology in public transportation. 'NFC in Public Transport' includes an overview of near field communication... More

Writing in the Harvard Business Review, Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt has explained that mobile money is one of three key areas of focus for Google in 2011. "As I think about Google's strategic... More

NFC phones will soon be used to self-test for a number of medical conditions, to automatically report on the status of patients with chronic health conditions and to monitor the health of those who have been recently discharged from hospital, says Dr John Peeters, founder of Gentag. More

News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: LG bringing NFC phone to US? • No NFC yet for Sony Ericsson • ZTE works on NFC and biometrics • Signbox lights up NFC • LSE examines NFC privacy • New NFC solution for retailers • Intuit adds mobile payments acceptance. More