US mobile payments provider Blaze Mobile has been granted a patent for its NFC payment sticker and mobile wallet solution... More
Blaze Mobile wins NFC sticker patent
Archive for July 2011
Oberthur gets EAL4+ certification for FlyBuy NFC SIM
Oberthur Technologies has become the first supplier to gain Common Criteria EAL4+ certification for an NFC SIM... More
Identive opens online NFC store
Identive Group, which is supplying NFC stickers to the Google Places NFC trial in Austin, Texas, has opened an online store for NFC products... More
Getyoo raises €600k for interactive NFC events solution
Belgian NFC specialist Getyoo has completed a €600,000 funding round, led by Eric Bigeard, the former CEO of international office supplies business Lyreco... More
LG announces Optimus Net Android NFC phone for Europe
The phone maker has unveiled two new Optimus series phones, the Optimus Net and the Optimus Pro. The Optimus Net will come with an NFC version in Europe. More
PayPal announces NFC peer-to-peer payments
“We’ve been looking at NFC technology for a while and we saw a tremendous opportunity to combine the best of NFC and the best of PayPal,” the online payments giant’s senior director for mobile explained as she announced the company’s first NFC service. More
Spendvision adds NFC to expenses tracking system
The company’s new eMoney module lets employees select at the time of purchase which transactions are business-related, eliminating the need to manually enter details of a purchase before submitting an expenses claim. More
Etisalat Zantel launches NFC payments in Tanzania
“Operators in African countries such as Tanzania benefit from being able to leapfrog legacy systems and can directly adopt NFC for their customers,” says the mobile network operator. More
NFC Forum partners with National Retail Federation, APSCA and Open Mobile Alliance
The NFC standards organisation has signed partnership deals with the NRF’s ARTS division as well as the Asia Pacific Smart Card Association and the Open Mobile Alliance. More
Transport for London to accept NFC payments from 2012
TfL has agreed to relax its transaction speed requirements to allow payments on London’s bus and underground network to be made via NFC phones and contactless cards from next year — and expects faster NFC phones and contactless cards to arrive in the near future. More
Eftpos Australia calls for creation of impartial NFC industry council
Bruce Mansfield, managing director of debit card payments system Eftpos Payments Australia (ePal), has called on payments providers and mobile network operators to form an impartial NFC industry council, ZDNet Australia reports... More
Omnitel launches national NFC service in Lithuania
The mobile network operator is using a system developed by Mokipay Europe that works with both NFC phones and contactless stickers linked to subscribers’ SIM cards to enable transaction notifications to be received on customers’ phones. More
Vodafone tests NFC in New Zealand
Vodafone is testing NFC technology in New Zealand, the mobile network operator’s local chief executive Russell Stanners has told The New Zealand Herald... More
Apple gets patent for adding NFC to metal displays
Apple has been granted a patent covering the addition of an NFC antenna to electronic devices such as computer monitors where standard methods of integrating NFC may cause problems generating a sufficiently robust signal strength... More
UniCredit launches mobile contactless payments service in Slovakia
The Slovak bank is providing customers with MasterCard-branded contactless stickers that can be attached to the back of their mobile phones and used to make payments at more than 3,000 contactless card acceptance points currently in place in Slovakia. More
FC Barcelona to test NFC at Camp Nou
Spanish soccer giant FC Barcelona has signed an agreement with the R&D arm of mobile network Telefónica that will see the club’s Camp Nou stadium being the first to test a wide range of leading edge mobile communications technologies... More
Two new Nokia NFC phones on their way?
Screenshots and renders of two potential new Nokia NFC phones are making their way around the internet... More
Europe’s mobile operators to create common NFC logo
Europe’s big five mobile operators are working together to create a new logo for NFC, designed to be clearly recognisable and drive usage of the technology. More
Sprint to begin enabling Google Wallet today?
A software update notification sent by US mobile network operator Sprint to dealers suggests that mobile payments capabilities will begin to be enabled on the Nexus S 4G, at least, from today... More
Inside Secure to resume IPO “as soon as possible”
NFC chip specialist Inside Secure has postponed its planned flotation, CEO Remy de Tonnac confirmed to NFC World, but the company plans to resume the IPO process as soon as it can. More