Orange launches Intel-based San Diego NFC phone
The Android NFC device will be available to Orange customers in the UK from 6 June, either on contract or for £200 (US$308) on pay-as-you-go. More
The Android NFC device will be available to Orange customers in the UK from 6 June, either on contract or for £200 (US$308) on pay-as-you-go. More
More than 11,500 branches of the Post Office in the UK are to be converted to accept contactless payments by October this year, marking the largest rollout of contactless POS terminals in Europe to date... More
The TransferJet Consortium and testing company Allion Labs are holding a seminar on the very fast wideband wireless data transfer technology in Taiwan next week that will also cover NFC... More
US drivers will soon be able to pay, claim loyalty points and redeem offers at the fuel pump using their NFC phones... More
The Russian mobile network operator is providing customers in the city of Yekaterinburg with the ability to store bus, tram and metro tickets on either a mobile phone with built-in NFC or a SIM+antenna add-on that works with standard handsets. More
Online payments giant PayPal is continuing its expansion into offline payments with the launch of a barcode-based mobile payments service in the UK... More
The Sydney-based media owner is to equip all its 8,300 out-of-home media sites in Australia, New Zealand, the US and the UK to support NFC, QR, SMS and augmented reality campaigns. More
Global mobile payment transaction values are set to grow by 42% a year, say the analysts, but the market will be fragmented over the next two years and NFC payments won’t hit the mass market until 2015. More
Malaysian mobile advertising provider MobileAdValley has conducted a smart poster-based mobile treasure hunt using a combination of Microsoft Tags and NFC tags at the GoMobile 2012 event in Kuala Lumpur, the company’s Lim Tan has told NFC World... More
Nine in ten of the people surveyed for a new mobile payments index who had used an NFC phone to make a payment said they would do so again but 33% said they had not heard of the technology before and 35% said they wouldn’t use it because of concerns over security and fraud. More
PayPal has signed up a further 15 national US retailers and completed deals with a suite of POS vendors as it rolls out its plans to become a major offline payments brand... More
Orange has added NFC functionality to its mobile app for this year’s French Open tennis tournament, which takes place this week at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris... More
“The brands that elicited the most positive interactions did so through a combination of relevance, dynamic content and a strong call-to-action,” according to an analysis of the largest NFC out-of-home advertising trial to date. More
Deals giant Groupon is testing a mobile payments acceptance service that would compete with Square, PayPal Here and Verifone Sail, according to VentureBeat... More
Google has introduced a contactless prepaid card in Kenya, TechMtaa reports... More
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) will release an Android version of its Kaching mobile payments service in the next six weeks, according to ZDNet Australia... More
A new LG smartphone, the LS860 Cayenne, is set to come with NFC, according to leaked details published by Brief Mobile... More
The trial is set to lead to “a wider nationwide transport roll out” to buses and trains in 2013, says the leading UK-based public transport operator which carries 2.5m Brits every day. More
MasterCard and secure mobile transaction specialist C-Sam are to offer a white label NFC wallet solution to mobile operators, retail banks and payment providers in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa... More
The Spanish, German, Brazilian and Northern Irish cities have picked Connecthings to deploy a network of NFC tags to provide visitors and local citizens with information on local services and attractions. More