A test conducted by Home Plus, Korea’s second largest supermarket chain and 95% owned by UK-based grocery giant Tesco, highlights the potential for mobile proximity technologies to transform the way retailers operate... More
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DeviceFidelity granted new NFC patent
NFC microSD specialist DeviceFidelity has been awarded a US patent, number 7,942,337, for “an implementation of near field communication (NFC) technology for enabling mobile devices to function like mobile wallets capable of conducting payment, access, transit and other contactless transactions using credentials issued by multiple different enterprises through points of sale terminals.”... More
Schmidt: One-third of merchants could get NFC POS terminals ‘in the next year’
Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, believes that a third of POS terminals in retail stores and restaurants will be upgraded to allow NFC payments within the next year, the Financial Times reports — and credit card companies will foot the bill... More
IDA demos NFC ‘smart shopping’ service
Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), the government agency tasked with implementing a national NFC infrastructure for Singapore, is demonstrating a number of “rich mobile NFC services” at the imbX tradeshow in Singapore... More
HP seeks NFC design engineer
HP has a vacancy for an NFC design engineer, indicating an earlier report that the company plans to introduce NFC-enabled mobile phones and tablet computers under the Palm brand name is likely to be accurate... More
NFC Forum appoints MasterCard’s James Anderson as vice chairman
James Anderson, group head and senior vice president for mobile product development at MasterCard Worldwide, has been appointed vice chairman of NFC standards association the NFC Forum... More
CorFire and InComm to provide retailers with NFC wallets
CorFire, the American arm of Korean NFC specialist SK C&C, and US prepaid card provider InComm are working together on a mobile payments and offers service that would compete with Isis and Google Wallet, Bloomberg reports:... More
Isis picks Austin for second NFC pilot
The Isis NFC joint venture between AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA has chosen the city of Austin, Texas as the site of its second test... More
NXP launches NFC car key
NXP has launched a single-chip solution for use in multifunction NFC-enabled car keys... More
Isracard to test NFC payments
Israel’s largest credit card issuer, Isracard, is to run a mobile payments trial using NFC stickers, Globes reports: ... More
Symbian Anna with NFC to arrive in July
Nokia has now set a date for the release of the Symbian ‘Anna’ operating system update that will switch on the near field communications capabilities in its NFC phones... More
Inside Secure postpones IPO?
NFC chip specialist Inside Secure has postponed its planned IPO “due to market conditions”, a source close to the company has told Reuters... More
Nokia launches NFC speakers and music receiver
Nokia has introduced two NFC-enabled accessories, the Nokia Wireless Music Receiver and the Nokia Play 360° wireless speaker... More
US smartphone owners want Apple and Google to provide their NFC wallets
A survey of more than 1,000 US smartphone owners has found that Apple and Google top the list of the companies most trusted to provide them with a mobile wallet... More
UPM and CustomerIn develop NFC solution for restaurants
NFC tag supplier UPM RFID and software developer CustomerIn have introduced Connected Restaurant, an NFC solution for restaurants which is designed to improve customer service, increase cross-selling opportunities and accelerate table turnover... More
Nokia and Jiepang demo NFC check-ins
Nokia has teamed up with China’s leading location-based service Jiepang to demonstrate NFC social check-in services... More
Avery Dennison enters NFC tag market
Avery Dennison RFID, the world’s largest producer of UHF RFID inlays, has launched a new line of NFC tags... More
LG to launch T530 NFC phone
The first commercially available LG NFC phone is to hit the market in the next few weeks... More
SAS to introduce NFC to airports
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has announced it will be issuing NFC stickers to frequent flyers from September 2011... More
YouGov launches quarterly mobile payments survey
Market research firm YouGov has found 70% of British consumers haven’t heard of mobile wallets and 91% haven’t heard of NFC technology... More