A new research report by Sarah Clark, editor of NFC World, allows business executives to get up to speed quickly and easily with the current status and future developments in NFC tags, phones, secure elements, mobile wallets, OTA platforms, contactless terminals, TSMs and more. More
A public information service accessed via NFC tags and QR codes is now available in Strasbourg, France... More
Identive has added window stickers and magnets to its range of NFC tags... More
US print giant Quad/Graphics has revealed it produced the 500,000 NFC-tagged inserts included in Wired magazine’s April 2012 issue... More
Nokia has launched an NFC-enabled Bluetooth headset aimed at people who spend a lot of time in their car... 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 Emirates Identity Authority is to work with mobile network operator Etisalat to develop a new version of the United Arab Emirates’ national ID card that will allow both UAE nationals and expatriates living in the country to store their ID on an NFC mobile phone. More
NFC World’s editor, Sarah Clark, will be hosting a free webinar on “NFC Advertising in Practice” on Wednesday 18 April... More
A new NFC tag supplier has opened in Toronto, Canada... More
Inside Secure’s consolidated revenues grew 94% to US$151m in 2011, due mostly to strong sales of NFC chips... More
An NFC plugin is now available for the Eclipse software development environment... More
Identive unveiled an open standards based NFC physical access control solution at last week’s ISC West tradeshow in Las Vegas... More
Pennsylvania’s Shippensburg University is testing payments via contactless stickers in two of its cafeterias... More
Phone maker Sony has applied for a patent which could see fingerprint sensors and cameras built into mobile phone screens... More
Grenoble is to get a local NFC payments system, reports 20minutes.fr... More
Students at the US university are using NFC-enabled mobile phones to gain access to dorms, academic buildings and administrative offices. More
The food company’s baby nutrition division in Singapore has released findings from a pilot project which has seen 400 NFC tags being placed in supermarkets, clinics and in homes to provide new mothers with information on a range of parenting and nutritional topics. More
Google has acquired platform-as-a-service (PaaS) electronic payments technology provider TxVia... More
NFC and secure transaction testing and advisory firm Collis has been acquired by UL, a safety science company with 9,000 employees in more than 100 countries... More
NFC4Retail, which provides merchants with a suite of NFC apps designed to improve the in-store shopping experience, is now available in 21 countries. The service costs US$20 per store per month and is free of charge during an initial public beta period. More