T-Mobile’s Isis app for Android phone users can now be downloaded from Google Play, ahead of the NFC venture’s launch in Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City... More
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Join NFC World for a webinar on NFC mobile keys and access control
NFC World will be hosting a one hour webinar on “NFC in Access Control” on Thursday 25 October, and all readers are invited to participate free of charge... More
Samsung adds Galaxy S III Mini with NFC
Samsung has announced a smaller, less powerful version of its flagship Galaxy S III handset... More
Proximiant raises funds for NFC digital receipts
Silicon Valley-based start-up Proximiant has completed a new funding round and added QR code support to its NFC-based digital receipts and rewards service... More
Texas Instruments adds smart meter development board with NFC
Texas Instruments has unveiled a development board for smart meters that includes support for NFC... More
Google Wallet to get P2P transfers?
A detailed examination of the Google Wallet APK (application package file) carried out by Android Police reporter Ron Amadeo suggests that the search giant has completed work on a P2P payments service and is conducting in-house tests... More
Rogers picks Gemalto for NFC in Canada
Rogers Communications has selected Gemalto to supply it with NFC-enabled SIMs for its forthcoming NFC payments deployment... More
JCM demos NFC mobile wallet for gaming industry
Transaction automation specialist JCM Global has demonstrated an NFC-based mobile wallet designed to be used in casinos... More
Rock the Vote picks NFC for poster campaign
Rock the Vote, an organisation which aims to motivate young people to vote in this year’s US presidential election, is including NFC tags in its out-of-home media campaign... More
ANZ to launch NFC payments in 2013
Australian banking group ANZ has begun an NFC payments field trial and announced plans to launch a commercial service in 2013... More
OSPT Alliance updates Cipurse transit ticketing specification
The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance has released version 2.0 of its Cipurse open transit ticketing standard... More
Tapped to run NFC hackathons in three US cities
Verizon, Samsung and Facebook are backing a series of NFC hackathons which are to take place in New York, Boston and San Francisco this month... More
Isis to pay USAT for adding NFC to vending machines
Isis has struck a deal with vending machine technology provider USA Technologies (USAT) that will see the NFC venture paying USAT a subsidy for converting up to 7,500 vending machines to accept Isis payments in its Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah test markets... More
UK banks launch iPhone NFC payments service
The UK’s Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest banks, both part of RBS group, have launched TouchPay, an NFC payments service first announced in July... More
Moo to offer NFC business cards
Printing firm Moo is to run an open beta test of a new NFC business card service that lets customers store a link to an online destination of their choice within the card’s NFC tag... More
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... More
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... More
LevelUp adds white label option
Mobile barcode and NFC payments/offers start-up LevelUp has introduced a white label version of its service... More
New Zealand NFC partners to begin field trial
Auckland Transport, Telecom New Zealand and financial services group Westpac have announced they are now ready to begin their first NFC field trial... More
French carrier SFR to issue own-brand card in move towards NFC payments
Mobile network operator SFR has launched France’s first rechargeable MasterCard PayPass card, in a first step towards issuing its own NFC mobile payment service... More