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Connectivity specialists MobiWire have teamed up with a health technology provider to introduce NFC to remote patient care by providing real-time communication and information transfer between visiting care workers and their offices. Working with UK-based Advanced Health... More

The new Teen Gallery at the Centre Pompidou modern and contemporary art museum in Paris allows young visitors to easily access and share location and multimedia information by touching an NFC mobile phone to tags located around the gallery. More

The commercial launch sees Sagem's Cosy Phone — an NFC handset announced in February this year and aimed at senior citizens and business users — become the first widely available NFC phone to support the Single Wire Protocol. More

The first mass production units of Sagem Wireless' new NFC Cosyphone will begin shipping later this month and a few pre-production models are now in the hands of developers, partners — and NFC World. More

The new Sagem Netribe which we reported on earlier this week is not a specific phone, Sagem Wireless has now told NFC World. Rather, says the company, it is "an Android platform on which we... More

UPDATED The Netribe is a touchscreen Android tablet phone that includes near field communication, biometrics and 'brand-specific industrial design', suggesting that, as with the company's Puma phone, brands will be able to customise it to their needs. More

ADMR, the French national association for providers of home care services, is to begin equipping staff with NFC phones from next month. The association's 3,350 local members have a total of 90,000 employees, providing services... More

The fourth annual Wima NFC event, to be held in Monaco from 20-22 April 2010, will include exhibitors from around the world plus conference streams and workshops focusing on both the technical and business issues surrounding near field communication. More

OPINION: A host of new NFC products and initiatives were announced at this year's Mobile World Congress but, it seems, we will have to wait until the end of this year before the first NFC handsets become widely available in the West. More

The near field communication functionality in Sagem Wireless' Cosyphone, a new NFC handset designed for the over 50s, is being supplied by Inside Contactless. The Cosyphone will use all three of Inside's NFC offerings —... More

The new Cosyphone uses NFC to make it easy for users to access the features on the phone without having to scroll through menus on the handset. More

Trial participants can use their Sagem Wireless NFC handsets to make payments and to collect information and promotional coupons from smart posters. More

Sagem Wireless has formed a partnership with Upek to bring fingerprint identity capabilities to a range of new devices that it plans to launch later this year, including new Android-based mobile devices. "Mobile operators, device... More

OPINION: The news that Malaysian manufacturer Fonelabs is to produce two million NFC phones in 2010 is the first sign that the issue of a lack of NFC handsets is beginning to be resolved. More

The company's new Celsius NFC platform enables application developers to write code once and then port it reliably to a range of NFC handsets and add-on devices. More

Three French firms are working on the Smart Muse NFC tour guide project, designed to let visitors use NFC phones to get information that is tailored by place, time and consumer demographic. More

OPINION: For anyone hoping to be seen as a player in the NFC SIM market, it's becoming clear that now is the time to let the market know you're in the game — even if you don't yet have any product ready to ship. More

The two companies, who have been working together to develop an NFC handset conforming to the GSMA's Pay-Buy-Mobile specification, are to develop new handset platforms that will support enhanced NFC services. More