Mobile phone chip leader Arm is working with Proxama to create secure future payment mechanisms for mobile handsets, the UK-based NFC specialist has announced... More
Archive: Newswire
Foursquare adds P2P NFC
Social check-in service Foursquare has upgraded its Android app to include support for version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, adding features that work with the Android Beam NFC P2P service... More
Researcher hacks Google Wallet PIN on rooted Android phone
Zvelo engineer Joshua Rubin has released details of a security vulnerability in rooted Android phones running Google Wallet... More
Isis discusses Salt Lake City NFC pilot plans
The Isis NFC pilots due to take place in Salt Lake City and Austin from this summer will run for six to twelve months before a nationwide rollout begins, the carrier-led joint venture’s Jim Stapleton has told delegates attending the Smart Card Alliance Payments Summit... More
LG Optimus Vu to come with NFC?
LG has released a video teasing its new Optimus Vu smartphone, which looks set to come with NFC... More
Smart Card Alliance publishes NFC transit white paper
A white paper designed to show how the transit industry can best make use of NFC technology has been published by the Smart Card Alliance... More
Leaked video confirms NFC for Windows Phone 8
Details of a video describing Windows Phone 8 features and confirming support for NFC have been reported by mobile gadget blog PocketNow... More
Nokia says goodbye to Hello
A description of a new NFC service from Nokia which briefly appeared on the Nokia Conversations blog on Friday was “just a ‘humoristic’ test post which went accidentally live for a few moments,” a spokesman for the handset maker has told NFC World... More
Forum to put on NFC showcase in Frankfurt
The NFC Forum is to hold a public exhibition of NFC technology during its quarterly members’ meeting in Frankfurt next week... More
French consumers prefer fingerprints to NFC
A survey has found that French consumers are more interested in the idea of using their fingerprint to identify themselves when making a payment than in using a mobile phone for the purpose... More
Germans warm to NFC
German consumers are increasingly positive about the idea of making payments with contactless cards and NFC phones, a new survey conducted for Euro Kartensysteme has found... More
NFC shop opens in Tokyo
The world’s first physical retail store specialising in NFC has been opened in Yaesu, Tokyo... More
Schwing! LikeBelt concept reads NFC tags with a hip thrust
Enterprising developers have come up with a ‘LikeBelt’, an NFC-enabled belt buckle that can register Facebook ‘likes’ or check-ins with a thrust of the wearer’s hips... More
PayPal expands in-store
Online payments giant PayPal has signed a deal with Ingenico that will see its mobile payments technology integrated into the POS terminal maker’s new and legacy contactless acceptance devices... More
Cirque shows off NFC trackpad
Capacitive sensing specialist Cirque Corporation showed its touchpad with integrated NFC antenna solution at CES last week... More
Amadeus reports on the future of travel
A new research study commissioned by technology provider Amadeus examines how new technologies, including NFC, are set to revolutionise the travel experience over the next decade... More
Ingenico unveils mobile retailing platform
POS terminal maker Ingenico has partnered with mobile commerce specialist iMobile3 to introduce iMRP, a mobile retail platform aimed at US retailers... More
Broadcom announces Smart TV with NFC solution
Chip maker Broadcom is showcasing a new system-on-a-chip technology at the CES in Las Vegas that can be used to turn any of today’s nearly two billion digital TVs into smart TVs that can access the internet and stream content anywhere in the home — and transfer that data to an NFC phone... More
Plug-in dongle adds internet to TV — and comes with NFC
Always Innovating has shown off a reference design for an NFC-enabled plug-in device that transforms any television with an HDMI input into an internet-connected screen... More
NFC competition returns to Wima
The NFC Forum and the Wima NFC conference have issued a call for entries to “Tap Into Innovation: NFC Global Competition 2012”, a co-organised competition which has been an important means of surfacing innovative NFC applications over the years... More