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The pilot follows the announcement that New Zealand's mobile network operators are to partner with the operator of the country's debit card and ATM networks to introduce a central TSM platform. More

Italian mobile network operator Wind has begun an internal NFC pilot, in collaboration with Samsung. Wind employees taking part in the trial are being equipped with a Samsung Galaxy S II NFC phone they can use to... More

The Dubai-based bank has partnered with mobile network operator Etisalat, Visa and Gemalto to introduce NFC payments in the United Arab Emirates. More

Gemalto has announced Advanced Connectivity, an end-to-end solution for delivering and activating M2M, NFC and streaming multimedia content applications over LTE networks. More

Gemalto has signed a deal with Sony that will see it adding support for Sony's FeliCa contactless card technology to its new Upteq NFC SIM technology. FeliCa chips are embedded in 346 million cards and 170... More

The Italian mobile network operator is to work with French technology cluster Pole SCS on the development of a range of innovative NFC services which will be introduced first in the city of Milan from later this year. More

The announcement earlier today of a deal between Chase and carrier-led NFC joint venture Isis is just the start of the US banking giant's NFC plans, the company has revealed. The bank has signed a... More

The new UpTeq NFC SIM meets a flight of top level security requirements and, says the digital security firm, can be used to generate legally binding digital signatures as well as deliver both e-health and e-government services. More

The mobile network operator will begin commercial NFC services from the end of January with partners including Japan Airlines, credit card issuers, loyalty programme providers and retailers. More

Technology provider Etick, mobile network operator MTN-Irancell and Bank Pasargad have teamed up to demonstrate NFC payments in Iran. More

The core trusted service management (TSM) platform to be used by the US NFC joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless will be provided by France-based Gemalto. More

Gemalto has become the first smart card provider to get GlobalPlatform certification for an NFC SIM product, following the launch of GlobalPlatform's compliance programme earlier this year. The smart card and SIM supplier picked testing... More

Japanese mobile network operator Softbank, card issuer Credit Saison and American Express have teamed up with NFC technology providers Dai Nippon Printing and Gemalto to test SIM-based NFC payments on Android phones. The three month... More

A survey of UK consumers conducted for Gemalto has found that a third of Brits would use NFC services — if they understood the technology better and knew it was completely secure. More

A newly published Apple patent application sets out a way for a virtual SIM card to be built into an embedded secure element which can, in turn, be attached to an NFC controller chip. More

Singapore's IDA has awarded the contract for a national NFC infrastructure to a consortium including mobile network operator StarHub, DBS Bank, public transportation card issuer EZ-Link and NFC technology provider Gemalto. Commercial services are due to go live in mid-2012. More

Finalists for the annual Cartes trade show awards include Taiwan-based Go-Trust, developer of a single wire protocol compliant NFC microSD card. More

Digital security specialist Inside Secure has appointed Laurent Sanchez as vice president of applications and ecosystems. Sanchez's role will include evangelising Open NFC, establishing relationships and launching strategic initiatives with partners in the payment and... More

NFC tag and services supplier Identive has hired Matthew Smith as vice president of product and technology management in the company's Mobility & NFC Solutions group. Smith was previously the director of TSM operations at... More

The Slovak bank is providing customers with MasterCard-branded contactless stickers that can be attached to the back of their mobile phones and used to make payments at more than 3,000 contactless card acceptance points currently in place in Slovakia.  More