Author archive: Sarah Clark

So far there are 261 companies on the list of NFC suppliers we'll be profiling in The NFC Report; here's how to make sure your company is included. More

Visitors to the 13th century Vyšší Brod Monastery can now use an innovative NFC and GPS enabled device to receive an automated guided tour of all the walled religious community's important sights. More

Prize money totalling €15,000 is available for the top entries in this year's NFC Forum Global Competition, again featuring separate tracks for both innovative research projects and commercial solutions.  More

TechIPm, a research and consulting firm specializing in technology and intellectual property mining, has carried out an analysis of the strength of the patent portfolios held by companies in the NFC market. For its analysis,... More

A new report from Juniper Research predicts that the Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) from near field communication based coupon and smart poster applications will exceed those generated from payments applications, until 2014 at least.... More

The Bladox Waver is a SIM+antenna solution that is currently being tested by 15 companies in Turkey, India and Europe and can be retrofitted to most mobile handsets, including the iPhone, Android and Blackberry phones. More

Vivotech is to offer Tetherball's sticker-based mobile loyalty programme to its installed base of retailers and is supplying Irish start up Zapa with contactless stickers and POS equipment. More

Park State Bank & Trust, based in Woodland Park, Colorado, has become the second bank to sign up for Bling Nation's mobile contactless-sticker based payments system. The bank began offering the service to its customers... More

Two of the leading players in the 2D barcode market, tied up in litigation battles since 2004, have finally settled their differences. NeoMedia Technologies and Scanbuy have agreed to terminate all pending litigation brought by... More

Following the successful launch of mobile contactless payments at The State Bank of La Junta, Bling Nation has appointed Rod Stambaugh as regional president for the company's Colorado operations. "La Junta, Colorado was the first... More

A massive increase in international co-operation and significant investment in awareness-building and training are essential if the concept of an 'Internet of Things' is to be turned into a meaningful reality, says the final report from the EU-funded Casagras project. More

Mobile test equipment specialist Comprion has launched a digital Single Wire Protocol (SWP) and Host Controller Interface (HCI) simulator that allows the synchronous simulating and testing of both the contact and contactless sides of NFC... More

A US start-up has won two innovation competitions for its 'interactive correspondence' concept, an augmented print solution that uses tags and 2D barcodes to update, verify and supplement postal mail. More

A new NFC-based service has launched in Los Angeles that automatically updates a consumer's Facebook status with a message from the merchant every time they tap a poster in a shop or restaurant to obtain a special offer. More

Tranzfinity has launched a new solution enabling standard mobile phones to be turned into low cost, contactless card accepting point of sale terminals. The solution works by combining a standard phone with the company's Myztro... More

OPINION: The past fortnight has seen announcements of new NFC services from banks and operators in both Dubai and Kuwait. More

The largest mobile operator in the Middle East has partnered with the region's largest bank for the launch of NFC-based mobile payments. More

Financial services analyst Celent predicted last month that a rollout of NFC across the US would see financial institutions gaining extra revenues of just $1.83 per customer per year. Could that be true? More

A small scale near field communication trial has begun in Finland. Forty members of staff from payments provider Luottokunta, Sodexo, Visa Europe and Venyon have been issued with NFC handsets that they can use to... More

Children's clothing retailer Tape à l'oeil has rolled out Adelya's contactless sticker based loyalty system nationwide, across all 170 stores and its website. More