Up to 300,000 NFC-enabled points of sale are set to be installed in South Korea and all smartphones must include NFC capabilities by the end of 2011, Reuters has reported... More
Archive: Newswire
Hewlett-Packard planning NFC phones and tablets?
Hewlett-Packard is working on NFC-enabled mobile phones and tablet computers that would be marketed under the Palm brand name, “two people familiar with the company’s plans” have told Bloomberg... More
NFC pioneer Bling Nation suspends mobile payments service
Bling Nation, the company behind the first commercial NFC payments system in the US, has suspended service while it seeks to revamp its business model, American Banker reports... More
Kovio raises $15m to bring low-cost NFC tags to shops
Printed tag pioneer Kovio has raised US$15million in new equity financing led by Tyco Retail Solutions, a leading retail inventory and asset protection specialist... More
FarEasTone eyes NFC in Taiwan
Taiwanese mobile network operator FarEasTone plans to introduce mobile payment applications this year, the Taipei Times reports, and then gradually expand the service to include NFC:... More
Korean coffee chain introduces NFC loyalty stamps
Korean coffee shop chain Caffé Bene has become the first merchant to introduce an NFC-based coupon system that provides customers with a loyalty ‘stamp’ each time they visit, Korea Times reports... More
eCoupled combines NFC and wireless charging
Fulton Innovation has added NFC communications capability to its eCoupled wireless charging technology... More
Barclaycard launches TV ad for NFC payment service
Barclaycard has reworked its rollercoaster ride TV advertisement to promote the NFC payments system it launched last month with Orange... More
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Nokia video shows high speed, high capacity tag technology
Nokia Research Center has released a video touting a high-speed data transfer system that allows mobile phones to interact with high capacity tags at up to 100Mbits per second... More
Juniper: NFC payments to hit $50bn in three years
NFC mobile contactless payment transactions will reach nearly US$50bn worldwide by 2014, according to market forecasters Juniper Research... More
FaceCash adds NFC to barcode payments system
Mobile payments provider Think Computer has added NFC support to its FaceCash Wallet mobile barcode payment system... More
700m to use mobile money in emerging markets by 2015
More than 700 million people in emerging markets around the world will be using mobile money services in 2015, new research from Berg Insight suggests, as the market grows 40% a year from 2010’s 133m users... More
Netcom unveils NFC microSD add-on
Chinese electronics manufacturer Netcom has demonstrated an NFC-enabled microSD card at the Computex 2011 show in Taipei... More
ACT and sQuid join forces to launch NFC and mobile solutions
Two UK firms involved in contactless ticketing and payments have joined forces to launch NFC and mobile phone-based solutions... More
Broadcom: ‘We expect 10% to 15% of phones to have NFC within twelve months’
Chipmaker Broadcom says it expects to see NFC built into between 10% and 15% of all phones within the next year, with the rate higher for smartphones, PCWorld reports... More
We’re hiring: NFC World is looking for a Korea correspondent
NFC is taking off and South Korea is one of the fastest moving markets... More
Norway aims for national NFC transport ticketing standard
Norway’s transport minister has called for a national standard for mobile ticketing based on NFC technology, and urged the mobile phone industry to help the country achieve that goal... More
Starbucks UK set to accept NFC payments
Starbucks has signed a deal with Barclaycard, in partnership with Visa Europe, to bring contactless and NFC mobile payments to its UK coffee shops... More
Infineon unveils new embedded secure element for NFC phones
Chip maker Infineon has launched a secure element IC designed to be embedded in NFC-enabled mobile phones... More