Secure document and services provider ABNote has opened a division to develop and deliver NFC mobile payment solutions... More
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NFC parking meters for Ottawa
Parking meters in Ottawa will accept payments from NFC-enabled smartphones starting in early 2012... More
Durban to go contactless
Durban is to introduce a contactless electronic wallet for use on its public transport network which can also be used to pay for purchases in shops... More
Windows Phone ‘Apollo’ in 2012?
A Nokia executive has told Engadget that the next version of Windows Phone, codenamed ‘Apollo’, will be a “very different game” to Mango and will launch in mid-2012... More
Nokia app store adds NFC section
Handset maker Nokia has added an NFC section to its app store, to encourage its customers to use the growing number of NFC applications for their mobile phones... More
NFC to enter the dating game?
NFC could be used to add efficiency to the dating process, Hans Reisgies of Sequent Software suggested at the NFC Summit at 4G World... More
Gotap brings NFC to car dealers
Car dealerships can use NFC stickers to help customers get details about vehicles for sale, says US startup Gotap.me... More
H5000 replaces Artema Hybrid
POS terminal maker VeriFone has announced the H5000, a countertop point-of-sale terminal that accepts NFC and contactless payments as well as mag stripe and EMV chip cards... More
Mercedes to debut NFC in 2013
Car maker Daimler plans to add NFC to Mercedes-Benz vehicles from 2013 to simplify Bluetooth pairing, used to set up a smartphone to manage the car’s built-in systems... More
NFC Cluster starts up in Boston
NFC Cluster Boston will hold its first event, NFC Delivers Mobile Retail Marketing, on November 7... More
Comprion’s UT3 approved for SWP/HCI tests
Mobile test equipment specialist Comprion’s UT3 platform for single wire protocol (SWP) and host controller interface (HCI) NFC conformance testing has been approved by the Global Certification Forum (GCF)... More
Lipton taps in to NFC ads
Lipton Ice Tea has begun testing NFC at Sydney University, with ads featuring tags that students tap with their NFC-enabled phones to ‘like’ the Lipton Ice Tea Facebook page... More
Commonwealth Bank brings iPhone NFC to Australia
The bank has unveiled ‘Commbank Kaching’, a next generation mobile payments service that lets iPhone users easily send money to their Facebook friends, email contacts and phone contacts as well as make payments in stores via an add-on NFC case. More
Visa tests NFC in Iceland
Icelandic payments processor Valitor has teamed up with Visa and Oberthur Technologies to run the country’s first mobile payments pilot from January 2012. More
ATI lines up temperature tag trials
Temperature monitoring specialist American Thermal Instruments is to launch six pilots to test the Log-IC NFC data loggers it launched last month... More
Mobey Forum reports on NFC
Mobey Forum, the global mobile financial services trade association, has published ‘Business Models for NFC Payments’, a white paper focusing on NFC mobile payments at the point of sale... More
Inside ships 10m NFC chips
Inside Secure has shipped 10 million MicroRead and SecuRead NFC controller chips so far in 2011, and the company’s capacity for NFC chip shipments now exceeds five million units per month... More
Winckel launches range of NFC tags
RFID tag manufacturer Waldemar Winckel has launched a portfolio of NFC-capable smart tags and labels under the Identytag brand, aimed at applications ranging from brand protection to mobile marketing to location-based services... More
Kimtag releases dual NFC and QR code stickers
NFC tag vendor Kimtag has launched a line of stickers containing both an NFC tag and a QR code... More
Cubic gets EMV transit approval
Transport ticketing specialist Cubic has received EMV approval for its Tri-Reader 3, which can process all industry standard contactless smart cards as well as payments made with NFC mobile phones... More