Marketing & Promotion
December 3rd, 2010
Alcatel-Lucent to offer turnkey NFC mobile wallet solution
Alcatel-Lucent has signed an agreement to integrate Cassis International's Trusted Service Manager (TSM) solution with its Mobile Wallet Service, enabling the company to offer mobile network operators the ability to provide a full range of... More
November 29th, 2010
NFC news in brief • 29 Nov 2010
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: PingPing adds Coca-Cola • Indian banks offer mobile payments • GSMA investigates embedded SIMs • VeriFone buys Hypercom • Brands test Google Goggles • 500m to use mobile medical apps by 2015 • CPI hits 100M contactless cards • and more... More
November 29th, 2010
Ericsson IPX introduces next-generation NFC TSM service
The company aims to kickstart commercial NFC services by acting as a broker between mobile network operators and service providers — Ericsson IPX plans to pay operators to rent space on their SIM cards and then sub-let it to a range of service providers. More
November 26th, 2010
Think&Go NFC offers innovators 300 free devices for use in pilots
Think&Go NFC has launched a call for NFC innovators to apply for up to 300 NFC devices to use in near field communication pilot tests. The devices will include Morpho's NFC Mobile Wallet, TwinLinx's MyMax... More
November 24th, 2010
Wima 2011 call for papers: Closing date for submissions is 3 December
The deadline for submitting papers for consideration for presentations at next year's Wima conference, to be held in Monaco in April, is 3 December. Anyone who wishes to make a presentation at the Wima 2011... More
November 24th, 2010
DeviceFidelity adds NFC support for Android and Mifare
DeviceFidelity has announced that its In2Pay microSD format NFC devices can now be used in Android phones. In2Pay already works with BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows and Symbian devices and is being tested extensively by Visa member... More
November 19th, 2010
Centre Pompidou’s Teen Gallery lets young people test NFC
The new Teen Gallery at the Centre Pompidou modern and contemporary art museum in Paris allows young visitors to easily access and share location and multimedia information by touching an NFC mobile phone to tags located around the gallery. More
November 19th, 2010
Singapore issues request for proposals for national NFC TSM
IDA, the government agency tasked with implementing a national NFC infrastructure for Singapore, is requesting proposals from consortiums to create and manage a next-generation open trusted third party infrastructure that all the country's banks, transport operators and other service providers could use to deliver NFC services. More
November 16th, 2010
AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile confirm Isis mobile payments joint venture
The new service is to be called Isis, will be introduced in key geographic markets "during the next eighteen months" and aims to ultimately eliminate "the need for consumers to carry cash, credit and debit cards, reward cards, coupons, tickets and transit passes." More
November 15th, 2010
Eric Schmidt: Android Gingerbread 2.3 to support NFC
"Android Gingerbread 2.3 will support near field communications to read RFID tags as well as communicate with other phones, payment systems and other possible applications," Google CEO Eric Schmidt has told the Web 2.0 Summit... More
November 15th, 2010
Bling Nation to launch national US mobile payments service in early 2011
Bling Nation is set to roll out its mobile payments technology across the United States in early 2011, Forbes reports, and also plans to launch its service in other countries next year. The company "is... More
November 15th, 2010
NFC news in brief • 15 Nov 2010
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: Banks deploy OTP cards • Qantas expands next generation check-in • Visa and Gap tie coupons to purchasing • iPhone users max their cards • Subway picks Facecash • Nokia retrieves Symbian • Mobile coupons gain ground • Barclays reports contactless stats • and more... More
November 15th, 2010
Think&Go’s rental model makes it easy for retailers to test NFC
The near field communication specialist is offering a turnkey package that includes NFC application software and the opportunity to rent NFC add-ons so that all of a company's customers in a particular location can be cost-effectively equipped to take part in a trial. More
November 14th, 2010
Nokia to switch on C7’s NFC functionality “in early 2011”
A firmware upgrade enabling the C7 to handle a variety of NFC tag reading and pairing applications will be available from the beginning of next year, Nokia's head of PR for France has told technology publication Teknologik. More
November 11th, 2010
NTT Docomo adds NFC tag reading to wide range of mobile phones
NTT Docomo has begun the world's first mass market deployment of mobile phones with NFC tag reading capabilities. Sixteen of the operator's new range of mobile phones and a number of existing handsets will be able to perform both Osaifu-Keitai mobile contactless payments functions and NFC tag reading from next week. More
November 9th, 2010
NTT Docomo to switch to NFC in 2013?
NTT Docomo is set to make the switch to NFC standard technology in 2013, according to a report in Japanese business newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun. The mobile network operator currently runs the Osaifu-Keitai mobile wallet... More
November 8th, 2010
NFC news in brief • 8 Nov 2010
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: NXP CEO picks NFC • Nacha cuts out cards • P2P payments set for growth • Bharti Airtel picks up payments license • Facebook Deals a blow • Only 4% have checked out checking in. More
November 5th, 2010
Mobitel and Sony to introduce national NFC service in Sri Lanka
The mobile network operator, 49.5% owned by the Sri Lankan government, is to launch a wide range of services using an NFC platform developed by Sony FeliCa. More
November 1st, 2010
Thirteen French cities apply for NFC test zone funding
A total of thirteen cities have responded to the French government's call for proposals for three to five more cities to receive funding to run large scale NFC field trials similar to the Cityzi project... More
November 1st, 2010
NFC news in brief • 1 Nov 2010
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: Czech mobile payments • Akbank pushes contactless • Visa opens up • The rich love a bargain • Germany moves to contactless ID • mFoundy's mobile banking guarantee • Amsterdam shops to refuse cash • Starbucks expands 2D payments • M-Pesa adds supermarkets • WiFi goes P2P • and more... More
