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December 11th, 2012

Broadcom sets its sights on a billion NFC devices

The connectivity chip maker has launched the BCM43341, a combo chip that combines NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and FM radio and is designed to meet ever increasing demand from mass market mobile phone and consumer electronics device makers. More

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December 7th, 2012

Christmas app conjures up Santa with an NFC tap

US NFC developer TeamProjectsOnly has come up with a hi-tech and festive way to reward children for good behaviour in the run up to Christmas, using NFC phones and tags. More

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December 3rd, 2012

Pet owners log dog walks with NFC

Dog owners can use the Fujitsu Wandant NFC-enabled pedometer, an Android NFC phone and a cloud-based analysis service to collect and track detailed information about their pet's health and fitness. More

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November 28th, 2012

Axiom comes with gWallet

The Samsung Galaxy Axiom, believed to be an LTE version of the Galaxy S III Mini, has become the second handset on US Cellular to support NFC payments with Google Wallet. The network rolled out... More

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November 28th, 2012

GoMcDo to add NFC

The GoMcDo mobile ordering system offered by McDonald's France is to get NFC support "very soon", says solution provider Airtag. The new version of GoMcDo will also support Windows Phone 8 devices, in addition to... More

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November 28th, 2012

Moneto hits the shops

DeviceFidelity's NFC mobile wallet solution is now available at MetroPCS stores in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Moneto Android kit is based on a prepaid MasterCard account and uses an NFC-enabled microSD card to... More

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November 27th, 2012

Samsung ships 5m NFC Notes

Samsung reports that it has shipped 5m Galaxy Note II "phablets" over the last 60 days. The NFC enabled device is essentially a larger version of the Korean phone maker's hugely successful Galaxy S III... More

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November 21st, 2012

Flojack on target for funding

Flomio's bid to crowdfund the production of its FloJack NFC add-on for iOS devices is just over US$10,000 away from its $80,000 target with five days to run. The company has also revealed plans for... More

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November 20th, 2012

Vodafone Australia sets out NFC payment plans

"As early as next year, customers with NFC-enabled smartphones will be able to leave their wallets at home and pay for a morning coffee, an evening out with friends, or groceries, with their handset," says the carrier's head of strategy and business development. More

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November 19th, 2012

Samsung Arndale board offers NFC support

A new Android development board which supports NFC is due to start shipping this week. Samsung's Arndale development board is intended for mobile app developers and is designed to offer more flexible debugging features and... More

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November 16th, 2012

NFC app tracks staff and assets with Android phones

A new Android app from German telematics company Enaikoon can help managers track tasks, mobile employees and assets using NFC tags. When a tag is scanned with an NFC phone running the inViu NFC-Tracker app,... More

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November 15th, 2012

Android 4.2 adds NFC barcodes

The release of Android 4.2 sees support for Kovio's NFC Barcode printed tags added to the operating system. NFC Barcodes use silicon ink and thin film technology and hold the promise of ultra-low-cost tags that... More

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November 15th, 2012

Korean museum offers NFC visitors guide

The National Museum of Korea is testing an NFC-based guide service. Visitors can download pictures of exhibits and get further information by reading NFC tags located near each item with an Android smartphone. They can... More

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November 15th, 2012

STMicro offers batteryless NFC developer kit

A new developer kit from STMicroelectronics is designed to provide engineers with everything they need to start designing battery-free electronic applications that can exchange data with NFC smartphones. The M24LR Discovery Kit is based on... More

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November 14th, 2012

Google picks Broadcom for NFC in Nexus 4 and Nexus 10

The new Android 4.2 Jelly Bean mobile phone and tablet reference devices make use of a Broadcom NFC controller chip instead of the NXP chips Google used in earlier models. Broadcom has also contributed its NFC software stack to the Android Open Source Project. More

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November 4th, 2012

Rogers and CIBC switch on NFC payments in Canada

Canadian athlete Simon Whitfield has completed Canada's first NFC transaction, at a Tim Hortons coffee shop, and customers of the bank and mobile network operator can now order an NFC-enabled Rogers SIM ahead of the full commercial launch of the new mobile payments service on 16 November. More

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November 2nd, 2012

Leaked images suggest physical Google Wallet card on its way

A series of screenshots published by Android Police indicate that Google is set to offer a physical companion card for its Google Wallet service. The card would work in the same way as the virtual... More

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October 29th, 2012

Inside Secure reports Q3 2012 results

Inside Secure generated revenues of US$28.6m during the third quarter of 2012, the chip maker reports, up 1% on sales during the second quarter of 2012 but 22% down on the third quarter of 2011.... More

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October 26th, 2012

Samsung updates TecTiles NFC app

The phone maker's tag reading/writing app for Android devices now allows users to program tags to perform multiple actions at one time, customize profiles so that tags perform in different ways for different users, and lock a tag so that only the owner can read its contents. More

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October 24th, 2012

Google sued over NFC patent

Peter Sprogis, a co-founder of NFC pioneer MoLo Rewards, is suing Google for allegedly infringing US Patent No. 7,298,271 with Google Wallet, patent attorney Leonid Kravets reports. The patent was issued in November 2007 and... More

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