The Market
November 13th, 2012
Bell ID buys Ecebs
Transportation and smart card technology specialist Ecebs has been acquired by Bell ID. Ecebs' portfolio includes a number of front-end technologies that Bell ID expects to be able to use to "significantly enhance its offering... More
November 7th, 2012
Eurosmart forecasts NFC SEs
Close to 100m NFC secure elements will be shipped this year and that number will double in 2013, according to analysis conducted by smart card trade body Eurosmart. 750m contactless cards will also be produced... More
November 7th, 2012
Morpho ships NFC SIMs to KT
Morpho has shipped 500,000 NFC/LTE SIM cards to KT, Korea's second largest mobile network operator. KT expects that 20m Korean consumers will be equipped with an NFC phone by the end of this year. More
November 2nd, 2012
Meet NFC World at Cartes
The NFC World team will be at the Cartes 2012 tradeshow in Paris next week, on stand 4-L-019. Do stop by and introduce yourself to Sarah, Laurence and Joe — and look out for a... More
October 30th, 2012
Vodafone picks Gemalto and CorFire for international mobile wallet launch
"The consumer benefits of contactless payments are obvious," says Christian Wirtz, m-commerce director for Vodafone Group. "The potential of mobile to transform existing industries — such as financial services, retail and transport — is enormous." More
October 29th, 2012
Inside Secure reports Q3 2012 results
Inside Secure generated revenues of US$28.6m during the third quarter of 2012, the chip maker reports, up 1% on sales during the second quarter of 2012 but 22% down on the third quarter of 2011.... More
October 19th, 2012
ABI: NFC payments to hit $100bn
The total value of NFC mobile payment transactions will increase from US$4bn in 2012 to pass $100bn in 2016 and US$191bn in 2017, according to a new forecast by ABI Research. 26% of NFC handsets... More
October 19th, 2012
GSMA appoints new head of NFC
Pierre Combelles has been appointed as the GSMA's new business lead for NFC, replacing Nav Bains, who left to join Vivotech earlier this year. Combelles joins the GSMA from France Telecom-Orange group, where he was... More
October 17th, 2012
GSMA requests feedback on mobile wallet technical proposal
The mobile network operators' trade association has published a technical document that sets out how carriers around the world could implement core NFC mobile wallet functions in a standard manner — and is asking potential service providers, suppliers and other interested parties to provide feedback on the plans. More
October 3rd, 2012
NXP ships 100m NFC controllers
NXP has now shipped 100m of its PN544 NFC controllers, the company reports. "The NFC market continues to evolve rapidly," says NXP's Michael Maader. "NFC is coming to many new tablets, laptops, speakers and headsets... More
October 2nd, 2012
Identive reports NFC tag sales growth
Identive has announced it has received orders for more than 15m NFC tag transponders to be delivered over the next six months to large customers in the US, Europe and Asia. The company has also... More
October 1st, 2012
Gemalto buys Ericsson’s mobile payments business
Gemalto has acquired Ericsson's Internet Payment Exchange business outside the US, including its NFC TSM service, for an undisclosed sum. IPX will join Gemalto's Software & Services business line, within the company's mobile communications division.... More
September 19th, 2012
Visa releases Olympics NFC and contactless usage statistics
"The response has been extremely positive and our priority now is on turning that enthusiasm into commercial mobile payment deployments across Europe," says Visa's Mary Carol Harris, adding that "we recognise that the journey is a marathon, not a sprint." More
September 19th, 2012
Orange France to stock 20 NFC phones by year end
Close to 50% of the mobile phones stocked by Orange France will be equipped with NFC functionality by the end of 2012, Thierry Millet, the carrier's VP of mobile payments and NFC, has told attendees... More
September 12th, 2012
Apple: No need for NFC today
NFC isn't needed to give iPhone owners what they need today, Apple's Phil Schiller has told AllThingsD, in an interview following today's launch of the iPhone 5: Apple Senior VP Phil Schiller said that Passbook... More
September 5th, 2012
EMVCo and NFC Forum to simplify NFC device testing
Chip and pin standards body EMVCo and the NFC Forum have agreed to work together to optimise the development and testing process for NFC devices. "The goal of the collaboration is to establish a framework... More
September 5th, 2012
Carriers get green light to launch NFC in the UK
The European Commission has given its unconditional approval for the UK's three largest mobile network operators to form a joint venture company to introduce NFC mobile payments and promotional services in the UK. More
September 5th, 2012
T-Mobile to add NFC in Austria
T-Mobile is to introduce NFC services in Austria from 2013, outgoing CEO Robert Chvátal has revealed at the IFA show in Berlin, Der Standard reports. More
August 16th, 2012
Gartner places NFC in ‘trough of disillusionment’
NFC payments are five to ten years away from mainstream adoption and on the crossover between the 'Peak of Inflated Expectations' and the 'Trough of Disillusionment', according to this year's Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. NFC as a whole is expected to hit the mainstream more quickly, but is still two to five years away from maturity. More
August 16th, 2012
Juniper: M-payments to hit US$1.3tn
Global mobile payment transaction volumes will increase nearly fourfold over the next five years to more than US$1.3 trillion, according to a new forecast by Juniper Research. Growth will be driven primarily by sales of... More
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