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July 25th, 2012
Security researcher to present on NFC at Black Hat
Noted security researcher Charlie Miller is to present the findings from his research into NFC P2P and tag reading vulnerabilities at Black Hat 2012 today. "It turns out that through NFC, using technologies like Android... More
July 25th, 2012
NXP reports 200 NFC phone and tablet design wins
40% of these are either in production already or will be going into production over the next few quarters, says CEO Rick Clemmer, as the company reports revenues of US$50m from its emerging ID business. More
July 19th, 2012
Dutch banks and carriers abandon Sixpack NFC joint venture plan
ABN Amro, ING, KPN, Rabobank and Vodafone are exploring a range of alternative ways to work together to introduce NFC services in the Netherlands, program director Wim Westerhof has told NFC World, in a bid to avoid the regulatory hurdles associated with forming a joint venture company. More
July 19th, 2012
Orange joins patent pool
Mobile network Orange has joined the NFC Patent Licensing Program, a patent pool run by France Brevets and launched in June with Inside Secure. "Our licensees will benefit, in addition to key patents brought by... More
July 19th, 2012
iPhone to get NFC in Sept/Oct?
The next iPhone is currently undergoing its "third stage engineering verification test" and will be released in late September or early October, according to BGR. "We can also confirm that NFC hardware is present in... More
July 13th, 2012
DNP and C-Sam partner on NFC
Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) has licensed C-Sam's Mobile Transaction Platform (MTP) and announced the two companies will be working together to offer "a scalable and flexible mobile wallet solution to mobile operators, retailers and banks,... More
July 13th, 2012
Morpho acquires TSM provider Cassis International
ID technology provider Morpho, part of the Safran group, has acquired trusted service management (TSM) specialist Cassis International. Cassis was one of the earliest entrants into the NFC TSM market and is headquartered in Singapore... More
July 6th, 2012
Telefónica picks Visa for mobile payments in Europe
Telefónica Digital has appointed Visa Europe as its preferred mobile payments partner for its O2 and Movistar networks in Europe in a deal described as "a wide ranging strategic partnership to drive new business opportunities... More
July 3rd, 2012
GlobalPlatform and TCG to work on mobile security standards
Standards bodies GlobalPlatform and the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) have formed a joint work group to collaborate on mobile device security standards. The work group will share expertise and coordinate activity around setting out technical... More
July 3rd, 2012
Telia takes Accumulate stake
Mobile operator TeliaSonera has invested in Stockholm-based mobile payments specialist Accumulate, which supplied the technology underpinning the Swedish networks' WyWallet service announced last week. "Our partnership with Accumulate is a result of increased interest in... More
June 29th, 2012
ABI: Mobile device hardware security market to be worth $1.9bn in 2017
The mobile device hardware security market will be worth US$1.9bn by 2017, up from US$430m in 2012, according to a new report by ABI Research. The Mobile Device Security study looks at the market for... More
June 28th, 2012
Orange France rolls out NFC SIMs
Orange France is to issue NFC SIMs to all its 27m subscribers, making it the first carrier in Europe to deploy NFC-enabled SIM cards nationally. Gemalto's UpTeq NFC SIMs have been picked for the initial... More
June 27th, 2012
Inside Secure appoints NFC patent licensing agent
The NFC chip specialist has hired IP commercialisation specialist France Brevets to handle licensing of more than seventy patents — including a core patent that is expected to mean any manufacturer incorporating an NFC controller into their device will need to acquire a license. More
June 25th, 2012
China Mobile signs NFC payments partnership deal
The world's largest mobile network operator is to collaborate with national payments network China UnionPay, in a deal set to lead to the introduction of NFC services in up to one hundred Chinese cities. More
June 21st, 2012
Canon, HP and Yahoo! Japan join NFC Forum
A further 24 organisations have also joined the NFC standards association, including Huawei, Interac and Fujitsu. More
June 11th, 2012
Identive cuts non-NFC costs
Identive Group is to cut its global workforce by 11% as part of a cost reduction plan designed to save US$4m to $5m this year. The move "will not impact our ongoing investments in new... More
June 6th, 2012
Juniper: NFC payments to exceed US$180bn in 2017
NFC payments will be being made in store by more than one in four mobile phone users in the US and Western Europe in five years time, the forecaster predicts. More
May 29th, 2012
Index reports on consumer acceptance of NFC payments
Nine in ten of the people surveyed for a new mobile payments index who had used an NFC phone to make a payment said they would do so again but 33% said they had not heard of the technology before and 35% said they wouldn't use it because of concerns over security and fraud. More
May 22nd, 2012
MasterCard floats forum for US move to EMV
MasterCard has proposed the formation of a cross-industry group designed to foster collaboration and alignment between all stakeholders in the coming move to EMV "chip and pin" technology in the United States. "We recognize that... More
May 22nd, 2012
Google CEO hints at NFC future for Motorola
Google CEO Larry Page has taken to the search giant's blog to announce the completion of its acquisition of Motorola Mobility — and obliquely mentioned NFC's key role in Google's plans for the future. "It's... More
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- 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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