NFC Newswire

Samsung has announced a second mobile phone equipped with near field communication functionality at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Samsung Wave 578 runs on the handset maker's own Bada smartphone platform, for which... More

Leading Japanese social network Mixi, which has more than 21 million members, has become the first social network to offer users the ability to check into locations using near field communication. The service is compatible... More

Belgium's mobile network operators have joined forces with the country's financial sector with the aim of introducing SMS and NFC based mobile payments by the end of 2011. "The goal is to make a mobile... More

Google has released Android 2.3.3, an update to Android 2.3 Gingerbread specifically designed to add more NFC functionality to the operating system. "We know there's a strong interest to include these capabilities into many applications,... More

France's mobile network operators have formally committed to deploying one million NFC phones in 2011, under the Cityzi brand name. In an official statement published by the AFSCM (Association Française pour le Sans Contact Mobile),... More

Visa Europe has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Monitise to develop and supply mobile payments services for Visa Europe's member banks and financial institutions across Europe. "Monitise will act as an advanced development engine... More

Toshiba has announced it has now completed testing of an NFC UIM, a user identity module that can be used in both CDMA2000 NFC phones and as a SIM card for GSM NFC phones, and... More

A Mobile Commerce Daily reader has shown the publication how the Starbucks coffee chain's barcode-based mobile payments service can be hacked in just 90 seconds. The low-tech exploit makes for amusing reading — and also throws up... More

LG Electronics plans to launch a range of NFC-enabled B2B products in 2012, the vice president for business solutions at the company's Home Entertainment division has told Reuters. The products will be introduced in Europe... More

BlackBerry tracking site CrackBerry has got hold of a confidential RIM presentation describing the company's CDMA product introduction plans for 2011. The presentation confirms RIM's commitment to including near field communication in future devices but... More

Isis has appointed Ryan Hughes as its chief marketing officer, responsible for marketing the NFC mobile payments joint venture to merchants, advertisers and other businesses across the US, All Things Digital reports. Hughes joins Isis... More

Osama Bedier, PayPal's vice president of product development and a key player in the company's move towards mobile payments, has joined Google. In a post on the PayPal blog, Scott Guilfoyle, the company's CTO, writes... More

The Apple NFC rumour mill has swung into action again today, with new speculation that the company plans to include near field communication in both the next iPhone and the next iPad — and could... More

MasterCard Worldwide has hired Mung-Ki Woo as its new 'group executive, mobile'. Woo is a well known figure in the NFC industry and joins MasterCard from France Telecom Orange Group, where he was vice president... More

Coffee giant Starbucks has announced that its mobile payment service, first introduced on a pilot basis in Seattle and Silicon Valley during September 2009, is to be rolled out across the US. The decision to... More

The NFC Forum has published a white paper that provides an introduction to the potential uses and benefits of NFC technology in public transportation. 'NFC in Public Transport' includes an overview of near field communication... More

Writing in the Harvard Business Review, Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt has explained that mobile money is one of three key areas of focus for Google in 2011. "As I think about Google's strategic... More

Isis, the joint venture between mobile network operators AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile which is set to introduce a commercial NFC service in the US from 2012, has posted more than thirty job vacancies on its website. Opportunities include roles in... More

BoyGeniusReport has added details of the forthcoming BlackBerry Torch 2 to its series of exclusive reports of new BlackBerry phones equipped with NFC. The BlackBerry Torch 2 will come with a 1.2GHz processor, 3.2-inch VGA... More

Reports in two Korean publications suggest that LG is planning to launch a US$200 mass market phone with built-in NFC capabilities at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month. Both PlusNews and Etnews report... More