Applications
April 11th, 2012
Join NFC World for a free webinar on NFC advertising
NFC World's editor, Sarah Clark, will be hosting a free webinar on "NFC Advertising in Practice" on Wednesday 18 April. Three expert speakers will be discussing the potential NFC holds for advertising and marketing everything... More
April 4th, 2012
TapMeTags opens in Canada
A new NFC tag supplier has opened in Toronto, Canada. TapMeTags offers tag tracking, supply, printing and encoding services for marketers and advertisers who wish to use NFC and QR codes. "Our solutions are completely... More
April 4th, 2012
Identive shows open NFC access control with Plaid
Identive unveiled an open standards based NFC physical access control solution at last week's ISC West tradeshow in Las Vegas. The system uses NFC phones and the Protocol for Lightweight Authentication of Identity (Plaid), a... 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 4th, 2012
Sony scans dabs with screens
Phone maker Sony has applied for a patent which could see fingerprint sensors and cameras built into mobile phone screens. "Many technology analysts predict that mobile phones fitted with near field communication (NFC) technology will be... More
April 4th, 2012
Grenoble builds NFC system
Grenoble is to get a local NFC payments system, reports 20minutes.fr. The French city is sinking €1.3m into Mobi'Alpes, which will allow citizens and visitors with NFC phones to pay tram fares, follow tourist trails and... More
April 3rd, 2012
Villanova University tests new Ingersoll Rand mobile keys service
Students at the US university are using NFC-enabled mobile phones to gain access to dorms, academic buildings and administrative offices. 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
April 3rd, 2012
Google buys payments firm
Google has acquired platform-as-a-service (PaaS) electronic payments technology provider TxVia. Osama Bedier, Google's VP of Wallet and Payments, announced the deal on the Google Commerce blog. More
April 3rd, 2012
UL acquires Collis
NFC and secure transaction testing and advisory firm Collis has been acquired by UL, a safety science company with 9,000 employees in more than 100 countries. "The addition positions UL as the world's first global provider of... More
April 3rd, 2012
Narian launches low cost NFC platform for retailers
NFC4Retail, which provides merchants with a suite of NFC apps designed to improve the in-store shopping experience, is now available in 21 countries. The service costs US$20 per store per month and is free of charge during an initial public beta period. More
April 3rd, 2012
Wallet engineer heads to Square
Rob von Behren, a co-founder of Google Wallet, has left the search giant to join Square as a "hyperspatial payments pioneer". Fellow co-founder Jonathan Wall and product lead Marc Freed-Finnegan left Google in March to... More
April 2nd, 2012
New Zealand carriers to form NFC venture with payments provider
Vodafone, 2degrees and Telecom New Zealand have partnered with the operator of the country's debit card and ATM networks to introduce a central TSM platform that will allow the carriers to "continue to compete vigorously for customers by developing their own innovative services on top of the open platform infrastructure provided by the TSM". More
March 27th, 2012
London NFC hackathon winners get funding
Two of the twenty teams which took part in last weekend's Isobar Create London NFC app development event have received kick-starter funding they will be able to use to turn their apps into commercial products. More
March 26th, 2012
FujiFilm adds NFC to photo printing kiosks
The imaging company's new NFC module is designed to make it easy for consumers to order photos from in-store kiosks by simply selecting the images they want to print on their NFC device and then tapping it to the kiosk. More
March 26th, 2012
Maxis to launch iPhone NFC payments in Malaysia
Malaysian mobile network operator Maxis is to enable iPhone users to take part in its FastTap NFC payments service "soon", using an add-on NFC case. Maxis FastTap, launched in April 2009, was the world's first commercial... More
March 26th, 2012
2012 NFC Global Competition finalists announced
The NFC Forum and Wima have announced the finalists for their jointly-run Tap Into Innovation: NFC Global Competition 2012. This year's competition attracted three times as many entries as the previous contest in 2010, the organisers... More
March 26th, 2012
Vivotech completes new funding round
Vivotech has completed a Series D funding round, bringing the total the NFC and contactless specialist has raised to date to US$96m. New sales figures for the company's POS terminal business have also been released.... More
March 26th, 2012
Cipurse SDK now available
A software development kit (SDK) for the Cipurse open transit ticketing standard, developed by the OSPT Alliance, is now available. "The Cipurse SDK enables developers to quickly bring a wide range of solutions to market that... More
March 26th, 2012
Survey finds consumers expect rewards for interacting with ads
A survey conducted in six European countries has found that consumers like the idea of interactive out-of-home advertising — but they expect a 'value exchange' in return for interacting with advertising and the most popular incentives are money or entertainment. More
