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Samsung has signed a deal with a Spanish university to develop and pilot test the use of NFC phones to track student attendance. More

The access control specialist's NFC campus pilot is now complete, all participants are reporting positive results and a video showing the system in action has been produced. More

Three NFC products have picked up Sesame awards at the Cartes trade show in Paris. NXP won the software category with its open source NFC host software stack for Android. The chipmaker also picked up the... More

Sony and secure identity specialist HID Global have launched a contactless smart card reader platform that can add NFC and secure access control to laptop PCs and other mobile devices. The design includes a secure... More

Secure identity specialist HID Global expects its patent "Method and Apparatus for Making a Decision on a Card" to be issued shortly by the USPTO. The invention covers "the use of portable credentials in a... More

Subscribers of UAE-based network Etisalat are set to be among the first in the world to make mobile payments on their BlackBerry NFC phones. 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

BlackBerry NFC phone users are set to be the first to use their mobile instead of their work ID badge to access buildings and other physical and online facilities, RIM and ID card giant HID Global have revealed. More

Some 80% of participants in the access control pilot say that using a smartphone to unlock a door is just as convenient as using their campus ID card and almost all are interested in using their NFC phone to make payments and access other services. More

The iClass SE system "provides a standards-based platform for implementing exciting new applications for NFC-enabled mobile phones," says the employee ID card specialist. More

NFC phones will soon be used to self-test for a number of medical conditions, to automatically report on the status of patients with chronic health conditions and to monitor the health of those who have been recently discharged from hospital, says Dr John Peeters, founder of Gentag. More

News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: ATM top-ups for travel cards • Visa adds mobile app • New boss for Mobey Forum • Washington Metro to go contactless • Square worth $200M? • Madrid picks Mifare Desfire EV1 • Think&Go NFC gets funding • Enstream adds Western Union to Zoompass • All Google staff to get NFC phones? More

HID Global has announced that its family of contactless payment and identification cards are now available in a mobile sticker format. "The stickers make it easier to add closed-loop payment and loyalty systems to existing... More

The NFC and contactless specialist has teamed up with Infineon and Giesecke & Devrient to provide handset manufacturers with a single package that includes both an NFC controller and an embedded secure element. More

HID Global has introduced a new embedded reader platform which is designed to make it easy for solutions providers to develop services that combine both closed and open loop payment schemes as well as leading... More

HID Global and Sony have announced plans to enter into a strategic partnership to jointly develop an embedded contactless smart card reader platform for laptop PCs. The new platform will support Sony's FeliCa contactless card... More

Employee ID card leader HID Global and Inside Contactless have partnered to offer support for HID's iClass vicinity card technology to NFC phones. iClass is HID's top of the range ID card technology and includes... More

Anyone who expected to visit Cartes 2008 and find just the odd NFC application hidden somewhere round the back of a small stand lost in the outer reaches of the exhibition hall was in for quite a surprise — Near Field Communications World spotted forty companies talking NFC at this year's event... More