The launch of the next Google NFC phone, expected to be called the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, has been postponed, This Is My Next reports... More
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Subway USA goes contactless
Seven thousand Subway restaurants in the US are to be equipped to accept payments via contactless cards and NFC phones by the end of the first quarter of 2012, MasterCard has announced... More
Hungarian MNOs promote NFC
Hungary’s three mobile network operators — Magyar Telekom, Telenor Magyarország and Vodafone Magyarország — have held a press event to jointly promote the benefits of NFC payments, reports the Budapest Business Journal... More
Amex serves up mobile wallet API
American Express is to make an API available for its Serve digital wallet platform, Harshul Sanghi, the new VP of the company’s enterprise growth group has told Techcrunch... More
RIM unveils BlackBerry Tag service
BlackBerry Tag will let RIM NFC phone users add each other as BBM contacts and share multimedia content via NFC. More
NFC gets Iran demo
Watchdata has demonstrated its NFC products and services at the Fifth Islamic Banking Exhibition in Tehran, in conjunction with local firm Padisar Informatics... More
Next Google phone revealed?
The next Google phone, expected to be unveiled on 11 October, will be called the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, BGR reports... More
Patco tests open loop transit card
A 12 month pilot of the first open loop payment card to be issued by a transportation operator is now underway in the Philadelphia/New Jersey region of the USA... More
Visa hires GSMA director
Gavin Krugel has become the latest GSM Association staff member to join Visa... More
Olympics NFC phone to go global
The Olympics-branded NFC phone announced by Visa and Samsung in March is to be available worldwide, Pocket-Lint reports... More
NFC hails Taiwan taxis
Taiwan Mobile is placing smart posters in its Myfone stores that let customers call a Taiwan Taxi Corp cab using a Nokia NFC phone... More
NXP and Landis+Gyr demo NFC smart meters
Smart meters equipped with NFC will allow utility companies to save money and increase convenience, say the partners. More
Korean bus stops get NFC
Korean mobile network operator KT is adding smart posters to bus stops across Gyeonggi Province... More
Oz to get NFC ‘within months’
NFC payments could arrive in Australia as soon as the new year... More
Updated: XDA devs add Google Wallet to original Nexus S?
Developers say they have come up with a way to add Google Wallet functionality, including a Google Prepaid Card carrying a free US$10 credit, to the original Nexus S NFC phone. More
SleepTrak NFC sleep monitoring service goes live
The innovative sleep disorder monitoring service is now available to T-Mobile USA subscribers equipped with a Nokia Astound NFC phone. More
OfficeMax goes live with Google Wallet
Customers can now use their NFC mobile phones to make payments, redeem coupons and receive rewards via Google SingleTap terminals installed at more than one hundred of the office supplies chain’s stores in five US regions. More
Eight NFC products reach finals of Sesames awards
Finalists for the annual Cartes trade show awards include Taiwan-based Go-Trust, developer of a single wire protocol compliant NFC microSD card. More
ATI uses NFC to check temperature of foods and pharmaceuticals
The company’s new solution is designed to enable standard NFC phones to be used instead of specialist equipment to monitor temperature-sensitive goods while they are in transit. More
630m NFC phones in 2015
A total of 630m handsets, representing 40% of all mobile phones shipped, will come with NFC in 2015 and will drive transactions worth US$71bn, according to a new report by Informa Telecoms & Media... More