LG has unveiled another NFC smartphone, its second this week, in the run-up to the Mobile World Congress... More
Archive for February 2012
Noverca picks G&D for NFC trial
Giesecke & Devrient has announced that its new Taurus NFC SIMs are being used by Italian MVNO Nòverca for financial institution Intesa Sanpaolo’s NFC pilot in Milan and Turin... More
Société Générale picks NFC payments TSM
The French bank has chosen Oberthur to act as its trusted service manager for a rollout of NFC payments services this year. More
DMD Mobile reveals low cost NFC smartphone
Malaysian company DMD Mobile has announced a low cost NFC smartphone for the Malaysian market... More
Samsung reveals two more NFC handsets
Samsung has announced two new smartphones in the run up to next week’s Mobile World Congress, and both have optional NFC functionality... More
LG touts Tag+ to change phone settings
Smartphone maker LG has unveiled the Optimus LTE Tag, a new smartphone destined for the Korean market... More
Moneto adds Android NFC payments
Support for a range of Android phones based on Samsung’s Galaxy S has been added to NFC supplier DeviceFidelity’s Moneto service... More
Firms find NFC B2B app pays for itself in months
Companies of all sizes and in a range of markets are finding that they are getting a return on their investment in Think&Go NFC‘s business-to-business Audit&Control solution within five to twelve months, the company reports... More
EMVCo picks GlobalPlatform secure element compliance programme
EMVCo, the standards body collectively owned by American Express, JCB, MasterCard and Visa, has officially recognised the GlobalPlatform Compliance Program for validating secure elements as an integral part of its mobile payment certification process... More
Samsung in Malaysian NFC deal
Samsung has signed a memorandum of understanding with Malaysian RFID firm Smartag that will see the two firms working together to bring NFC technology to the Malaysian market... More
Fujitsu to launch phones and tablets featuring NFC and biometric security
Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu is to introduce a wide range of smartphones and tablets with both NFC and biometric security capabilities, according to a Financial Times report... More
Inside Secure completes IPO
Shares in the first NFC specialist to go public were oversubscribed by five times and the offer price was set at the high end of the range at €8.30 per share, netting the firm €69m and giving it a market capitalisation of €261m. More
Panasonic names NFC phone
The upcoming NFC smartphone announced by Panasonic in late 2011 is to be called the Eluga, the company has told attendees at its Panasonic Convention 2012 in Hamburg... More
Kaching rings up 110k downloads
Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s CommBank Kaching NFC-enabled mobile payments app has been downloaded 110,761 times in the two months since it was first made available, the bank reports... More
UK NFC joint venture prepares to seek EU approval
The UK NFC joint venture announced last year by mobile network operators Vodafone, O2 and Everything Everywhere is expected to seek the official go ahead for the scheme, dubbed Project Oscar, in the next two weeks, according to a report in The Telegraph... More
ZTE announces NFC smartphone
Chinese manufacturer ZTE has announced an NFC smartphone which it will show at MWC 2012... More
World Expo 2012 to showcase NFC applications
This year’s World Expo in Yeosu, Korea is to include NFC-based payments, food ordering, entrance tickets and parking as well as an NFC shopping wall and access to multilingual information on exhibits and transportation. More
BCNTouch to run NFC treasure hunt at Mobile World Congress
A bottle of Bodegas Torres wine is on offer to the first two hundred MWC attendees who visit the stands taking part in the treasure hunt and use their NFC phone, or a QR code app, to scan wine bottles. More
Forum publishes m-wallet paper
Mobile financial services association Mobey Forum has published Control Points In Mobile Wallets (PDF), the second in a series of white papers exploring issues around the deployment of mobile wallet solutions... More
Apps4Android launches NFC talking label app
Accessibility app specialist Apps4Android has released Ideal Talking Tags, a free talking label maker and reader application for NFC phones running Android 4... More