NFC World » NFC Forum http://www.nfcworld.com The near field communication news source - NFC, contactless, mobile payments, RF SIM, RFID and more Fri, 25 May 2012 12:47:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Forum tests test tools with TUV http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/04/27/315351/forum-tests-test-tools-with-tuv/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/04/27/315351/forum-tests-test-tools-with-tuv/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:10:12 +0000 Mike Clark http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=15351 The NFC Forum has appointed TÜV SÜD to provide its worldwide RF analogue test tool validation service. TÜV will test all RF analogue test tools used for testing the radio layer of the communications stack to prove...

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/04/27/315351/forum-tests-test-tools-with-tuv/feed/ 0 Smartrac delivers tiny tags http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/04/19/315168/smartrac-delivers-tiny-tags/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/04/19/315168/smartrac-delivers-tiny-tags/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:44:16 +0000 Joe Davies http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=15168 RFID tag maker Smartrac has added a new NFC tag to its range. The new Midas tags have an antenna size of 10mm by 17 mm and a die-cut size of 12mm by 19mm. The...

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/04/19/315168/smartrac-delivers-tiny-tags/feed/ 0 NFC Forum partners with GlobalPlatform on NFC standards http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/04/03/314917/nfc-forum-partners-with-globalplatform-on-nfc-standards/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/04/03/314917/nfc-forum-partners-with-globalplatform-on-nfc-standards/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:12:29 +0000 Mike Clark http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=14917 The partnership will see the organisation responsible for setting core NFC functionality standards working with the association which handles secure element specifications to support the development of internationally interoperable, multi-application NFC solutions.

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/04/03/314917/nfc-forum-partners-with-globalplatform-on-nfc-standards/feed/ 0 2012 NFC Global Competition finalists announced http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/03/26/314810/2012-nfc-global-competition-finalists-announced/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/03/26/314810/2012-nfc-global-competition-finalists-announced/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:22:35 +0000 Sarah Clark http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=14810 The NFC Forum and Wima have announced the finalists for their jointly-run Tap Into Innovation: NFC Global Competition 2012. This year's competition attracted three times as many entries as the previous contest in 2010, the organisers...

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/03/26/314810/2012-nfc-global-competition-finalists-announced/feed/ 2 Microsoft applies for NFC Tap and Do trademark http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/03/23/314761/microsoft-applies-for-nfc-tap-and-do-trademark/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/03/23/314761/microsoft-applies-for-nfc-tap-and-do-trademark/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:33:51 +0000 Sarah Clark http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=14761 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.

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/03/23/314761/microsoft-applies-for-nfc-tap-and-do-trademark/feed/ 3 Inside Secure launches low cost NFC tags with 2KB of memory http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/03/13/314406/inside-secure-launches-low-cost-nfc-tags-with-2kb-of-memory/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/03/13/314406/inside-secure-launches-low-cost-nfc-tags-with-2kb-of-memory/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:37:56 +0000 Sarah Clark http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=14406 The new MicroPass 4101-2K is the first large memory tag to both fully conform with NFC Forum standards and be available at an affordable price, says the NFC chip specialist.

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/03/13/314406/inside-secure-launches-low-cost-nfc-tags-with-2kb-of-memory/feed/ 0 Turkish payments group BKM joins NFC Forum http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/02/16/313315/turkish-payments-group-bkm-joins-nfc-forum/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/02/16/313315/turkish-payments-group-bkm-joins-nfc-forum/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:30:40 +0000 Sarah Clark http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=13315 BKM, which acts as an NFC trusted service manager for member banks in Turkey, has joined the NFC Forum and revealed that four more banks are now ready to roll out NFC services.

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/02/16/313315/turkish-payments-group-bkm-joins-nfc-forum/feed/ 0 Nokia NFC boss departs http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/02/14/313211/nokia-nfc-boss-belostock-departs/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/02/14/313211/nokia-nfc-boss-belostock-departs/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:02:52 +0000 Sarah Clark http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=13211 Jeremy Belostock, head of NFC at Nokia for the last four years, has left the company to take up a new post at mailing solutions firm Neopost. Belostock's departure continues an on-going exodus of Nokia NFC staff...

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/02/01/312896/forum-to-put-on-nfc-showcase-in-frankfurt/feed/ 0 NFC competition returns to Wima http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/01/10/312305/nfc-competition-returns-to-wima/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/01/10/312305/nfc-competition-returns-to-wima/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:40:50 +0000 Sarah Clark http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=12305 The NFC Forum and the Wima NFC conference have issued a call for entries to "Tap Into Innovation: NFC Global Competition 2012", a co-organised competition which has been an important means of surfacing innovative NFC...

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