Estonia’s banks are to begin pilot testing NFC services in January 2013... More
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SmartThings project looks to NFC
A Kickstarter project that will offer consumers building blocks for easy home automation, monitoring and control is set to support NFC... More
Telenor Hungary picks State Printing House for NFC
Hungary’s State Printing House, Állami Nyomda, has announced it has been selected as Telenor Hungary‘s technical partner for NFC... More
‘Razr Mini’ to come with NFC
Motorola has received FCC approval for the XT907, a 4G NFC phone which is being described as a mini Droid Razr and is expected to be available via Verizon in the US... More
Etisalat demos NFC in Egypt
Etisalat Misr, Egypt’s leading mobile network operator, has installed an NFC access control system at its premises in Cairo... More
Win8 Thinkpad to get NFC
Lenovo has announced the ThinkPad Tablet 2 for Windows 8 a 10.1-inch touchscreen device which will come with both NFC and a fingerprint biometrics reader... More
Sprint adds Motorola LTE phone with NFC and Qwerty keyboard
US mobile network operator Sprint has begun taking orders for a new Motorola phone that features NFC, LTE and a slide-out Qwerty keyboard... More
Deutsche Telekom picks Wirecard for m-payments move
T-Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom has picked German payments processing specialist Wirecard to support its move into the mobile payments market... More
Nokia WP8 NFC handset spotted
Nokia is to begin shipping a Windows Phone 8 NFC device, codenamed the Phi, during the last week of October 2012, according to the Nokia Innovation blog... More
Samsung preps NFC tablet
A new tablet from Samsung, referred to as the GT-P8110 and featuring unusual rounded corners as well as NFC functionality, has been submitted for FCC approval, Phandroid reports... More
Westpac tests Android NFC payments
Australian bank Westpac has begun an NFC payments pilot, using Android handsets equipped with a secure element embedded in the SIM that stores a virtual MasterCard debit card... More
Asus preps two Win8 NFC tablets
Tech publication Engadget has spotted that Asus has submitted two tablets running Windows 8 and featuring NFC for FCC approval... More
Apple gets ‘on-the-go shopping list’ patent
Apple has been granted US patent number 8,239,276, entitled ‘On-the-go shopping list’... More
Samsung preps WP8 NFC phone
Samsung has two Windows Phone 8 handsets in the works, according to court documents seen by The Verge... More
ACS to launch contactless POS terminal
Hong Kong-based NFC and smart card reader specialist Advanced Card Systems (ACS) is moving into the contactless point-of-sale terminal market... More
Pantech P9090 NFC spotted
A new Android 4.0 NFC phone from Korean manufacturer Pantech, the P9090 Magnus, could hit the US market later this year, Technology and Gadgets reports... More
Turkcell adds MaxiPro5 NFC smartphone
Turkish mobile network operator Turkcell has added the MaxiPro5 to its line up of NFC phones... More
Discover certifies First Data TSM
First Data has announced that its trusted service management (TSM) solution has been qualified by Discover... More
Fime to certify Isis devices
Fime has become the first company to be authorised by Isis to certify products, including mobile handsets and secure elements, for the US NFC venture... More
Infineon releases NFC SDK in US
Chip maker Infineon Technologies is now offering an application developer kit for Type 2 NFC tags in the US... More