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Orange plans to provide three million SIM-based NFC devices to customers based in the European Union in 2012, according to Stéphane Richard, chairman and CEO of France Telecom-Orange. That number will increase to 10m devices... More

The planned joint venture between the UK's three leading mobile network operators is "anti-competitive and akin to a joint selling arrangement," says Three UK, which was not invited to take part in establishing the new NFC service provider. More

Carriers and banks around the world can now use the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and the BlackBerry Curve 9360 smartphones to deliver MasterCard-approved NFC mobile payments services. More

Europe's big five mobile operators are working together to create a new logo for NFC, designed to be clearly recognisable and drive usage of the technology. 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

Orange will begin introducing NFC services "in the majority of countries in which it has a presence" in 2011, the mobile network operator has told mobile phone manufacturers at a meeting in Paris on 15... More

Christian Estrosi, the French Minister for Industry and the Mayor of Nice, has announced details of twelve NFC and RFID projects which are to share in €4.5 million of funding from the French government. The... More

Mobile network operator Orange has developed an NFC Application Developer Toolkit and made it available as open source software.  IzyNFC is designed to enable the development of mobile NFC applications based on a SIM-centric architecture... More

The mobile communications giant has added its NFC-related patents to a pool of IP and rights managed and made available for joint licensing by Via Licensing. More