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With an NFC-enabled Nook, you could "walk up to any of our pictures, any [of] our aisles, any of our bestseller lists, and just touch the book, and get information on that physical book on your Nook and have some frictionless purchase experience. That's coming, and we could lead in that area," the US bookseller's CEO has told Fortune. More

Microsoft is planning a mobile wallet for Windows Phone 8, according to an unsourced report in The Verge. The wallet service will be provided by Microsoft and is expected to be branded by carrier partners. More

Nokia has unveiled an NFC version of its Lumia 610 Windows Phone at the Wima show in Monaco, announced that Orange will be the first operator to stock it from the middle of this year — and reconfirmed its commitment to include NFC "right across our portfolio".  More

The computer software giant is to use its own symbol to show that a Windows 8 device has NFC functionality and to indicate to a user where the NFC antenna is located. More

The search giant is in discussion with mobile network operators around the world, NFC World has learned, with the aim of making its NFC mobile wallet available both internationally and on a wide array of handsets. US carrier partner Sprint is set to be the first, with up to ten additional handsets due to get Google Wallet this year. More

WiFi chip maker Marvell has announced its first NFC combo chip products. The new Avastar chips will combine both WiFi and NFC and are aimed at a wide range of markets, including smartphones, printers, games... More

Details of a video describing Windows Phone 8 features and confirming support for NFC have been reported by mobile gadget blog PocketNow. The video is hosted by Microsoft senior vice president Joe Belfiore, says PocketNow,... More

Nokia may use NFC connectivity and wireless charging in future phones to eliminate external ports from the devices, the company's head of design has hinted in an interview with The Guardian. Nokia's flagship Lumia devices run... More

The software giant has expanded its Microsoft Tag platform to include support for NFC tags as well as QR codes and its own tag technology, ahead of the expected release of the first Windows Phone NFC devices in 2012. More

Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" does not support NFC, Microsoft has told NFC World. The confirmation follows a report on Friday that the company had already designed NFC into Windows phones. "While near field communications is... More

A Nokia executive has told Engadget that the next version of Windows Phone, codenamed 'Apollo', will be a "very different game" to Mango and will launch in mid-2012. Microsoft has already stated that the next... More

The handset maker has signed a deal with the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority to test cloud-based NFC ticketing with Nokia phones by the end of 2011, the company has told NFC World. NFC payments will then arrive on Nokia phones for the first time at the beginning of 2012. More

WP7 phones will be able to support NFC functionality, including mobile payments, from next year. More

NFC chip maker STMicroelectronics has revealed it has been working with Microsoft to put support for ST's NFC technology into the upcoming NFC-enabled Windows 8 operating system. "As an early supporter of Windows 8, ST has a unique... More

Video of the two sessions on Windows 8 and NFC held at the Microsoft Build Windows event this week is now available to view online. The 'Connecting and sharing with near field communication' and the... More

'Connecting and sharing with near field communication' takes place on 14 September and 'Designing systems and developing drivers for NFC' will take place on 15 September. More

"NXP has a deep understanding of NFC and we are working with them to deliver the right hardware, software and support to bring this technology to our partners, developers, and ultimately the consumer," says the software giant's Aidan Marcuss. More

Microsoft demonstrates Windows 8 with NFC More

The Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle is designed "to highlight the common pattern of overenthusiasm, disillusionment and eventual realism that accompanies each new technology and innovation," says the company. More

A survey of more than 1,000 US smartphone owners has found that Apple and Google top the list of the companies most trusted to provide them with a mobile wallet. "Smartphone owners in this study... More