MBDS (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis)

Plans to add NFC to Android phones, to develop a universal NFC wallet user interface and to test an NFC-based museum information system at the Pompidou Centre in Paris are amongst the projects that will receive grants worth a total of 'several million euros'. More

The city council has won funding from the French government for a 'pre-commercial' NFC test in partnership with three mobile operators plus transport operator Veolia and the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. More

Membership of the NFC Forum is continuing to grow at a rapid pace. Handset manufacturers, mobile service providers, payment services providers, chip makers, solution developers, municipalities and academic institutions have all recently joined up. More