A new production process developed by a UK startup could reduce the cost of NFC tags to significantly under five cents a unit, making it practical for tags to be used in a wide array of new application areas. More
The Nokia N9, a Meego-powered smartphone with NFC capabilities announced in June, will not be available in the UK, Nokia has told The Telegraph... More
The HTC Stunning, the company’s first NFC phone, will be launched in China in September via a deal with payments network China UnionPay. More
TI has announced its first NFC product, an NFC transceiver that supports peer-to-peer communications and card emulation as well as read/write functionality and is designed to be built into a wide range of industrial, commercial and consumer products. More
NXP, AuthenTec and DeviceFidelity have announced they are developing reference designs for Android NFC phones that will ensure a mobile payment can only be made after the user has proved their identity by swiping their finger across a biometric sensor built into the handset. More
The BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 NFC-enabled smartphones will start shipping “later this month”, Research in Motion has announced... More
The NFC version of LG’s recently announced Optimus Net Android smartphone is set to arrive in the US on T-Mobile, NFC World has learned... More
The new system could be used, Fujitsu suggests, to make it easy for executives attending a meeting to download presentation materials and meeting notes as well as to transfer them between phones and display equipment. More
Nokia‘s upcoming N5 Symbian smartphone will come with NFC, according to an FCC filing spotted by Wireless Goodness... More
Oberthur Technologies has become the first supplier to gain Common Criteria EAL4+ certification for an NFC SIM... More
Identive Group, which is supplying NFC stickers to the Google Places NFC trial in Austin, Texas, has opened an online store for NFC products... More
The phone maker has unveiled two new Optimus series phones, the Optimus Net and the Optimus Pro. The Optimus Net will come with an NFC version in Europe. More
“We’ve been looking at NFC technology for a while and we saw a tremendous opportunity to combine the best of NFC and the best of PayPal,” the online payments giant’s senior director for mobile explained as she announced the company’s first NFC service. More
The company’s new eMoney module lets employees select at the time of purchase which transactions are business-related, eliminating the need to manually enter details of a purchase before submitting an expenses claim. More
Screenshots and renders of two potential new Nokia NFC phones are making their way around the internet... More
The search giant’s new social networking project includes built-in support for tag reading, letting users with NFC phones simply read a tag to post information stored in it to their Google+ account. More
Amazon UK has added the BlackBerry Bold 9900 NFC smartphone to its website... More
The hotel room key market leader, part of the Assa Abloy group which recently ran an NFC trial at the Clarion Hotel Stockholm, has now brought the technology to market. More
Korean manufacturer Hicel has introduced a digital business card that combines the features of traditional cards with NFC functionality... More
Nokia has now set a date for the release of the Symbian ‘Anna’ operating system update that will switch on the near field communications capabilities in its NFC phones... More