NFC World » Sony 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 MTS launches commercial NFC payments service in Russia http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/05/23/315880/mts-launches-commercial-nfc-payments-service-russia/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/05/23/315880/mts-launches-commercial-nfc-payments-service-russia/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 15:18:15 +0000 Sarah Clark http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=15880 Mobile network operator MTS and MTS Bank, both owned by Russia's Sistema group, have launched an NFC payments service in conjunction with MasterCard. The service is available to customers in Moscow today and will be expanded to other major Russian cities in the near future.

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/05/23/315880/mts-launches-commercial-nfc-payments-service-russia/feed/ 0 MasterCard certifies more NFC phones, introduces a new logo http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/05/04/315520/mastercard-certifies-more-nfc-phones-introduces-a-new-logo/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/05/04/315520/mastercard-certifies-more-nfc-phones-introduces-a-new-logo/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 16:51:43 +0000 Sarah Clark http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=15520 NFC phones developed by HTC, Intel, LG Electronics, Nokia, RIM, Samsung and Sony have all now been certified for contactless payments — and have the right to carry a new 'MasterCard PayPass Ready' logo.

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/05/04/315520/mastercard-certifies-more-nfc-phones-introduces-a-new-logo/feed/ 2 McDonald’s to test cloud-based NFC payments in Austria http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/04/24/315260/mcdonalds-to-test-cloud-based-nfc-payments-in-austria/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/04/24/315260/mcdonalds-to-test-cloud-based-nfc-payments-in-austria/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:21:07 +0000 Sarah Clark http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=15260 The fast food giant has signed up to pilot test a new cloud-based NFC payments service developed by Austrian mobile network operator A1 and Paybox Bank. Supermarket chain Merkur will also participate in the trial.

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/03/07/314263/turkcell-signs-up-50k-wallet-users/feed/ 0 Marvell adds NFC to WiFi chips http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/02/29/314086/marvell-adds-nfc-to-wifi-chips/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/02/29/314086/marvell-adds-nfc-to-wifi-chips/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:05:53 +0000 Joe Davies http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=14086 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...

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/02/29/314086/marvell-adds-nfc-to-wifi-chips/feed/ 0 Gemalto adds FeliCa to NFC SIM http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/02/28/313997/gemalto-adds-felica-to-nfc-sim/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/02/28/313997/gemalto-adds-felica-to-nfc-sim/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:36:23 +0000 Sarah Clark http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=13997 Gemalto has signed a deal with Sony that will see it adding support for Sony's FeliCa contactless card technology to its new Upteq NFC SIM technology. FeliCa chips are embedded in 346 million cards and 170...

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/02/28/313997/gemalto-adds-felica-to-nfc-sim/feed/ 0 Isis announces first banking partners: Chase, Capital One and Barclaycard US sign up http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/02/27/313886/isis-announces-first-banking-partners-chase-capital-one-and-barclaycard-us-sign-up/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/02/27/313886/isis-announces-first-banking-partners-chase-capital-one-and-barclaycard-us-sign-up/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:40:03 +0000 Sarah Clark http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=13886 The three card issuers' 100 million customers will be able to store a full range of credit, debit and prepaid cards, as well as loyalty cards and special offer coupons, on their NFC mobile phones.

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]]> http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/02/27/313886/isis-announces-first-banking-partners-chase-capital-one-and-barclaycard-us-sign-up/feed/ 0 Sony announces Xperia P with NFC http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/02/26/313844/sony-announces-xperia-p-with-nfc/ http://www.nfcworld.com/2012/02/26/313844/sony-announces-xperia-p-with-nfc/#comments Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:01:00 +0000 Sarah Clark http://www.nfcworld.com/?p=13844 Sony has unveiled two new Xperia NXT series handsets at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Like the Xperia S and Xperia Ion announced last month, the Xperia P comes with NFC — but there's no...

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