The Market
August 11th, 2011
ABI: 85% of POS terminals to support contactless payments in 2016
85% of terminals shipped worldwide will be contactless-enabled in 2016, driven by increased proliferation of contactless cards and, especially, rapid adoption of NFC-enabled cell phones, ABI Research predicts. "Contactless has the potential to change the... More
August 11th, 2011
TSM market to be worth 330m euros annually by 2015
"NFC is a nascent industry in which all participants want to set up the conditions and obtain the greatest market share during the early stages," new analysis from Frost & Sullivan has found. "However, NFC commercialisation will not take place if such approaches are taken." More
August 11th, 2011
Gartner’s Hype Cycle places NFC at ‘Peak of Inflated Expectations’
The Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle is designed "to highlight the common pattern of overenthusiasm, disillusionment and eventual realism that accompanies each new technology and innovation," says the company. More
August 9th, 2011
Visa moves US to EMV and NFC
"The adoption of dual-interface chip technology will help prepare the US payment infrastructure for the arrival of NFC-based mobile payments by building the necessary infrastructure to accept and process chip transactions that support either a signature or PIN at the point of sale," says the payments giant. More
August 8th, 2011
UK Payments Council to build mobile payments platform
The Payments Council, the industry body responsible for setting strategy for payments in the UK, has told NFC World that it is developing a platform that all British banks will be able to use to deliver a range of mobile payments services. More
August 8th, 2011
HTC applies for Closeconnect NFC trademark
Handset maker HTC is preparing for its introduction of NFC by filing for a trademark for the word 'Closeconnect', BGR reports. The trademark application describes Closeconnect as follows: Computer hardware and software for setting up,... More
August 5th, 2011
Survey: Two-thirds of UK shoppers say cash is inconvenient
"Consumers are increasingly less willing to carry large amounts of change around with them and many believe that coins will become obsolete in the future," new consumer research conducted by Barclays and Barclaycard has found. More
August 1st, 2011
SK Telecom: All new smartphones must come with NFC
The Korean mobile network operator has committed to an aggressive plan to quickly move large numbers of its customers towards NFC services by deciding that, from now on, it will only offer smartphones equipped with NFC functionality. More
July 31st, 2011
NXP cuts NFC mobile phone production forecast
NXP technology has been designed into more than sixty NFC handsets under development by a number of phone manufacturers, the chip maker's CEO has told analysts, but no more than 40m NFC phones are now expected to be produced this year — down from a previously forecast 70m to 100m units. More
July 31st, 2011
ABI: One billion contactless payments cards to ship in 2016
One billion payment cards with contactless capabilities will be shipped globally in 2016, up from just 170 million in 2010, according to Payment Cards, a new report from ABI Research. The forecast is based on... More
July 31st, 2011
Leading phone maker orders one million NFC tags from Identive
The tags are to be included in-box with each purchase of an NFC smartphone and are to be delivered to the handset manufacturer over the next six months. More
July 25th, 2011
Hungarian mobile operators form NFC alliance
Magyar Telekom, Telenor and Vodafone have joined with MasterCard, OTP Bank and loyalty programme operator SuperShop to establish the Hungarian Mobile Wallet Association with the aim of developing a technical and operational infrastructure for NFC services in Hungary. More
July 25th, 2011
Gartner: Mobile payments growth is slower than expected
More than 140 million people will use mobile payments services of one type or another this year, but Gartner believes mass market adoption of NFC payments is still at least four years away. More
July 18th, 2011
KPMG: Mobile payments are two to four years away from mainstream acceptance
A global survey of executives conducted by KPMG has found that the vast majority believe mobile payments will hit the mainstream within four years and nearly half say they think mass-market acceptance is only two years away. More
July 12th, 2011
NFC Forum partners with National Retail Federation, APSCA and Open Mobile Alliance
The NFC standards organisation has signed partnership deals with the NRF's ARTS division as well as the Asia Pacific Smart Card Association and the Open Mobile Alliance. More
July 7th, 2011
Inside Secure to resume IPO “as soon as possible”
NFC chip specialist Inside Secure has postponed its planned flotation, CEO Remy de Tonnac confirmed to NFC World, but the company plans to resume the IPO process as soon as it can. More
July 4th, 2011
Google+ includes support for NFC tag reading
The search giant's new social networking project includes built-in support for tag reading, letting users with NFC phones simply read a tag to post information stored in it to their Google+ account. More
June 28th, 2011
ZTE signs NFC phone deal with Inside Secure
The Chinese handset manufacturer will integrate Inside's NFC technology into its GSM and next-generation TD-SCDMA smart phone platform, which is based on the Android operating system. More
June 28th, 2011
NFC could reduce banks and mobile operators to low value ‘bit pipes’, warns KPN
"We need to own the market space and prevent market differentiation before any other party enters the market with enough money," says Peter Van Leeuwen of KPN, a partner in the Dutch NFC joint venture that includes both banks and mobile operators. More
June 28th, 2011
Orange to introduce first international NFC payments service
From this summer, subscribers to the UK's Quick Tap NFC service will be able to use their phones to make payments in Nice, home of the French Cityzi NFC service. More
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