Capacitive sensing provider Cirque has teamed up with authentication specialist SecureKey to build EMV payments security into its GlidePoint NFC-enabled trackpad... More
Archive: News in brief
Meet NFC World at Cartes
The NFC World team will be at the Cartes 2012 tradeshow in Paris next week, on stand 4-L-019... More
T-Mobile picks Gemalto for NFC
T-Mobile has picked Gemalto’s LinqUs Trusted Service Manager (TSM) platform for its Europe-wide rollout of NFC services... More
Crowd funds iPhone NFC add-on
Miami-based NFC specialist Flomio has turned to crowdfunding to finance production of a plug-in device that will bring NFC to Apple’s iPhone and iPad... More
GigaOm: Isis awareness low
The Isis pilot launch has been “softer than a goose down pillow”, says GigaOm’s Stacey Higginbotham, who has been checking out the service in Austin, Texas and found that merchant awareness of the NFC payments system is currently quite low... More
Cirque offers NFC trackpad kit
Capacitive touch technology specialist Cirque has introduced an evaluation kit for its GlidePoint NFC solution, which integrates an NFC antenna directly into the trackpad on a laptop or other personal computing device... More
BNL begins Rome NFC pilot
Italian bank BNL, part of the BNP Paribas group, has begun an NFC payments pilot in Rome... More
Google sued over NFC patent
Peter Sprogis, a co-founder of NFC pioneer MoLo Rewards, is suing Google for allegedly infringing US Patent No... More
Citi Hungary adds NFC stickers
Citibank Hungary has begun offering contactless stickers to holders of its Citi Life, Shell Citibank and Magyar Telekom Citibank cards... More
MetroPCS to support gWallet
Google has announced that US carrier MetroPCS, soon to merge with T-Mobile, is to add support for Google Wallet... More
Isis offers free travel
Isis NFC mobile wallet users in Salt Lake City will be able to ride free on all Utah Transit Authority (UTA) public bus, Trax light rail and Frontrunner commuter rail services when they use their Isis Mobile Wallet, the NFC venture — which launched today — has told NFC World... More
ABI: NFC payments to hit $100bn
The total value of NFC mobile payment transactions will increase from US$4bn in 2012 to pass $100bn in 2016 and US$191bn in 2017, according to a new forecast by ABI Research... More
OTI wins $2m US NFC POS order
Contactless and NFC specialist On Track Innovations (OTI) reports that it has received an order valued at US$2m for NFC and contactless payment readers to be deployed in the US... More
Isis confirms launch date
Isis is to launch its NFC-based payments system in two test markets on Monday, the US carrier-owned venture has confirmed... More
Confidex adds rugged NFC tags
Contactless ticketing and RFID specialist Confidex has unveiled a new generation of its Steelwave Micro rugged tags that comes with an NFC-compatible version designed for use in asset management applications... More
Yeldi picks NXP for NFC
Indian mobile payments service Ara eTap, which was unveiled by Yeldi Softcom in July, has picked NXP and Identive to supply it with NFC payment tags... More
Rogers to launch NFC next week?
Canada’s first commercial NFC payments service is set to launch on 15 October, according to documents seen by Mobile Syrup... More
Isis to go live on 22 October?
A leaked internal document obtained by Android Central suggests the long-awaited launch of Isis’ NFC pilots is now set to go ahead on 22 October... More
Renesas picks Micropross
Chip maker Renesas has chosen Micropross to supply it with EMVCo and NFC Forum compliant test equipment... More
US Cellular to add Google Wallet?
A leaked device service bulletin from US Cellular spotted by Android Police indicates that the US mobile network operator is about to add support for Google Wallet, beginning with the Samsung Galaxy S III... More