Education
September 24th, 2012
Spanish university to roll out NFC services across entire campus
UCAM, the Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, is to be the first university in the world to implement NFC technology across its entire campus, the university's Samuel Mendoza, director of multimedia, and Sergio Leon,... More
August 27th, 2012
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. SmartThings, which aims to "connect the things in your physical world to the internet,"... More
August 7th, 2012
Elisa issues NFC stickers to students
Finnish mobile network operator Elisa has partnered with MasterCard and the student-owned Lyyra discount and benefit card to issue prepaid NFC stickers to more than 100,000 students from the third quarter of 2012. Students will... More
July 10th, 2012
Austrian town ties book downloads to locations
Seventy sites in the Austrian town of Klagenfurt have been equipped with NFC and QR code stickers that enable visitors and local residents to download books related to the location of each sticker. Both fiction... More
June 20th, 2012
University of San Francisco to extend NFC campus card service
An NFC solution that integrates fully with the university's existing campus card system to enable students to access rooms and make laundry payments has been hailed as "a first-rate experience for our students and our staff" and is now to be expanded. More
June 13th, 2012
Samsung launches TecTiles NFC tags and programming application
Sets of five TecTiles can be ordered online or bought in store for US$14.99 from all four major US carriers and can be used to program a variety of NFC-initiated functions. "Most of the tag types you make will work on nearly all phones which have NFC hardware," says Samsung. More
June 11th, 2012
Kista Science City to host NFC access control pilot
Staff, researchers and students are to pilot test a system that allows keys to doors, meeting rooms and video conferencing facilities to be sent over the air to participants' NFC phones. More
June 6th, 2012
ASU wins award for NFC project
Arizona State University (ASU) has scooped the National Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU)'s inaugural Innovative Technology Award for its NFC-based mobile access control pilot. "The award was given to ASU in recognition of the... More
May 30th, 2012
MobileAdValley delivers NFC treasure hunt
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... More
May 8th, 2012
Ericsson launches NFC TSM development kit
Global mobile commerce platform provider Ericsson IPX has announced an NFC Trusted Service Manager (TSM) development kit that allows secure NFC application developers to test their apps in a live, controlled environment. The development kit... More
May 1st, 2012
Barnes & Noble to add NFC to Nook e-reader
With an NFC-enabled Nook, you could "walk up to any of our pictures, any [of] our aisles, any of our bestseller lists, and just touch the book, and get information on that physical book on your Nook and have some frictionless purchase experience. That's coming, and we could lead in that area," the US bookseller's CEO has told Fortune. More
May 1st, 2012
ScholarChip brings NFC to Philadelphia schools
The student ID card provider has partnered with the School District of Philadelphia and ACS to combine NFC phones, contactless student ID cards and transportation passes with the aim of cutting costs, creating a safer and more efficient student transit service and providing parents and staff with accurate student location information. More
April 4th, 2012
University gets NFC canteen
Pennsylvania's Shippensburg University is testing payments via contactless stickers in two of its cafeterias. Students order food from an NFC-enabled kiosk, then receive confirmation via a text message before they pick up their order. Some... More
April 3rd, 2012
Danone delivers information to new moms via NFC
The food company's baby nutrition division in Singapore has released findings from a pilot project which has seen 400 NFC tags being placed in supermarkets, clinics and in homes to provide new mothers with information on a range of parenting and nutritional topics. More
February 27th, 2012
Gemalto launches high security NFC SIM
The new UpTeq NFC SIM meets a flight of top level security requirements and, says the digital security firm, can be used to generate legally binding digital signatures as well as deliver both e-health and e-government services. More
February 24th, 2012
Krakow gallery tags exhibits
Visitors to an art gallery at the National Museum in Krakow, Poland, can use NFC smartphones to access extra information about exhibits by touching nearby NFC tags. Patrons can use their own NFC handsets or... More
February 13th, 2012
VTT tests talking product packaging
The Finnish R&D company's HearMeFeelMe project focused on how NFC could be used to improve the way elderly and visually impaired people interact with the world around them, including a system that allows product information to be recorded on an NFC tag and then read back to the user via an NFC phone. More
February 1st, 2012
Forum to put on NFC showcase in Frankfurt
The NFC Forum is to hold a public exhibition of NFC technology during its quarterly members' meeting in Frankfurt next week. The industry standards organisation will put on the free-to-attend 'solutions showcase' event to demonstrate... More
January 31st, 2012
Spanish students to register for classes with NFC
Samsung has signed a deal with a Spanish university to develop and pilot test the use of NFC phones to track student attendance. More
January 30th, 2012
HID reports results of NFC pilot at Arizona State University
The access control specialist's NFC campus pilot is now complete, all participants are reporting positive results and a video showing the system in action has been produced. More
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