Transit & Ticketing
February 25th, 2013
Identive powers NFC at MWC Connected City
Identive's Tagtrail NFC platform is being used in deliver information to visitors to the GSMA's Connected City exhibit at Mobile World Congress 2013. "The Connected City will be filled with brand-new products and experiences that... More
February 24th, 2013
Kuwait buses test stickers
Boloro Kuwait has completed a contactless payments pilot on public transit in Kuwait City. The trial, in partnership with mobile network Zain, saw customers use contactless stickers attached to their phones to pay for journeys... More
February 23rd, 2013
Orange releases Malaga NFC ticketing trial results
82% of participants felt that the NFC bus ticketing system was better than the current subscription-based system and 88% felt that it was a good way to be able to pay for their journeys. More
February 23rd, 2013
China Mobile and China UnionPay complete NFC TSM integration
China Mobile, the world's largest mobile network operator, and Chinese bank card association China UnionPay have announced they have completed integration of their NFC trusted service manager (TSM) platforms. The completion of the work means... More
February 19th, 2013
TfL “not convinced” about NFC
Transport for London (TfL), which is rolling out contactless card acceptance on London's public transportation network and ran one of the world's earliest NFC pilots in 2008, is "not convinced" about NFC, says Matthew Hudson,... More
February 18th, 2013
Inside Secure launches all-in-one NFC hardware package for consumer electronics devices
ComboPulse "is a drop-in, zero-tuning solution that makes it easy and inexpensive to add NFC functionality into a broad range of mainstream consumer electronic products, including tablets, entry-level mobile phones, personal media players and other smart mobile devices," says the NFC chip specialist. More
February 18th, 2013
MWC delegates to pay with NFC
3,500 delegates attending this year's Mobile World Congress will be offered a Sony NFC phone they can use to make payments across the Fira Gran Via venue, at 16,000 Barcelona merchants and in 700 taxis equipped to accept NFC payments. More
February 14th, 2013
Apple Passbook gets NFC — on Android devices
An app that allows Android devices to use 'passes' created for Apple's Passbook can now beam and redeem them via NFC, giving a vision of how an NFC iPhone could streamline usage of the increasingly popular Passbook app. More
February 13th, 2013
Isis releases Utah mobile payments usage stats
Active users are now paying with Isis five or more times a week, says Jim Stapleton, the NFC payments platform's chief sales officer. "Consumers actually only need to know about the passcode, and you kind of have a mental 'Oh!' right there as they realize their leather wallet does not have a passcode," he explained. More
February 6th, 2013
Caen to get NFC tickets
Public transportation users in the French city of Caen will be able to use NFC phones to pay for their bus and tram tickets from June 2013. The new service works with the French mobile... More
February 5th, 2013
AFSCM reports 2.5m Cityzi NFC phones in France
There are now 2.5m NFC-enabled phones that work with the French mobile network operators' Cityzi NFC platform in circulation, up from 1m in mid-2012, reports trade association AFSCM. Some 26 NFC phone models are now... More
January 25th, 2013
NFC Forum adds payments, retail, consumer electronics, healthcare and transport groups
"By helping us focus our efforts and expertise on the specific needs of key market sectors, the SIGs will enable the NFC Forum to facilitate and accelerate the delivery of exciting new NFC solutions to consumers," says Forum chairman Koichi Tagawa. More
January 24th, 2013
Taiwan TSM plans face opposition
The decision, taken yesterday by Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission, to grant conditional approval for Taiwan's five carriers and transit card issuer EasyCard to set up a national TSM joint venture for NFC payments and ticketing... More
January 23rd, 2013
Taiwan TSM project gets approval
Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission has given the go-ahead for transportation card issuer EasyCard and the country's five carriers to form a joint venture company to deliver NFC payments and ticketing services — provided the partners comply with a number of conditions designed to ensure a competitive environment is maintained. More
January 22nd, 2013
RIM picks Bell ID for NFC token management
"We selected Bell ID for their broad experience within multiple vertical markets and proven technical ability to manage infrastructure complexity," says Andrew Bocking, senior vice president of software product management at RIM. More
January 15th, 2013
NFC Forum introduces special interest groups for vertical markets
The NFC Forum is launching a series of special interest groups in "key vertical markets" to support and accelerate adoption of the technology. The Forum aims to bring together leaders from consumer electronics, healthcare, payments,... More
January 11th, 2013
NFC World’s Joe Davies to chair NFC Symposium
Joe Davies, associate editor of NFC World and The Mobile Wallet Report, is to chair NFC Symposium 2013 in Stockholm later this month. "NFC Symposium 2013 is the number one meeting place in Scandinavia for... More
January 7th, 2013
xpWallet adds NFC ticketing
New Delhi-based mobile wallet provider xpWallet has introduced an NFC ticketing solution for bus and train operators that lets commuters purchase tickets from conductors equipped with NFC phones. Travellers can either tell the conductor their... More
December 19th, 2012
Sony and Watchdata team up on NFC
Watchdata is to add support for Sony FeliCa contactless technology to its range of SIMpass NFC add-ons. Six million consumers in East Asia, mostly in China, already use a SIMpass SIM+antenna add-on to make NFC... More
December 18th, 2012
Orange and China Mobile sign NFC development deal
"By working together with China Mobile, we hope to show that the development of a SIM-card based approach using recognized standards will be a key factor in winning over consumer confidence as NFC services become more and more prevalent over the coming years," says Orange's Thierry Millet. More
Featured events
- NFC, Smartcard & Payment Fair 2013 • 18-20 June 2013 • Seoul, Korea
- GlobalPlatform’s “The TSM of Today and Tomorrow” workshop • 18 June 2013 • Madrid, Spain
- Tap-to-shop: NFC in Retailing • 18 June 2013 • At your computer
- NFC World Congress 2013 • 24-26 September 2013 • Nice, France
- NFC & Mobile Payment workshops at Apps World 2013 • 22-23 October 2013 • London, UK
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