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
No Nokia N9 NFC phone for UK or USA
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HTC calls on Taiwan to build national mobile payments platform
Taiwanese financial institutions should jointly develop a unified NFC-based mobile payment platform says the Taiwan-based handset maker, following the announcement of its first NFC phone and a deal with China’s CUP payments network. More
Gartner’s Hype Cycle places NFC at ‘Peak of Inflated Expectations’
The Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle is designed “to highlight the common pattern of overenthusiasm, disillusionment and eventual realism that accompanies each new technology and innovation,” says the company. More
HTC NFC phone to go on sale in China
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
Texas Instruments enters NFC market
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
Visa moves US to EMV and NFC
“The adoption of dual-interface chip technology will help prepare the US payment infrastructure for the arrival of NFC-based mobile payments by building the necessary infrastructure to accept and process chip transactions that support either a signature or PIN at the point of sale,” says the payments giant. More
Wiseleap adds NFC to Evernote
Montreal-based start-up Wiseleap has added NFC functionality to popular note-taking app Evernote... More
HTC applies for Closeconnect NFC trademark
Handset maker HTC is preparing for its introduction of NFC by filing for a trademark for the word ‘Closeconnect’, BGR reports... More
ABI: Chinese NFC payments could top $8bn by 2014
More than US$8bn in transactions could be conducted in China using NFC phones by 2014, according to Mobile Payments in China, a new report by ABI Research... More
Survey: Two-thirds of UK shoppers say cash is inconvenient
“Consumers are increasingly less willing to carry large amounts of change around with them and many believe that coins will become obsolete in the future,” new consumer research conducted by Barclays and Barclaycard has found. More
NFC phones to get biometric security support
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
Georgian banks plan NFC payments launch in 2012
MasterCard is working actively with banks in Georgia with the aim of introducing a commercial NFC payments service in 2012, Kemal Uyan, MasterCard’s regional business development director in south east Europe, has told The Financial:... More
First BlackBerry NFC phones to arrive later this month
The BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 NFC-enabled smartphones will start shipping “later this month”, Research in Motion has announced... More
Isis picks C-Sam to supply NFC mobile wallet technology
The C-Sam platform will enable Isis to offer smartphone users a comprehensive mobile wallet for conducting secure NFC transactions related to payments, rewards, coupons, tickets, transit and other services. More
SK Telecom: All new smartphones must come with NFC
The Korean mobile network operator has committed to an aggressive plan to quickly move large numbers of its customers towards NFC services by deciding that, from now on, it will only offer smartphones equipped with NFC functionality. More
NFC will take time to build, says Amex chief
Edward Gilligan, vice chairman at American Express, has set out the thinking behind the payments giant’s recent series of deals with Isis, Facebook, Foursquare, Sprint and Verizon in an interview with Bloomberg TV. More
Ticketfriend unveils NFC event ticketing system
The new service is designed to provide event promoters with an end-to-end ticketing system which is cheaper than existing solutions and provides a wide range of added value social media, marketing and promotion options. More
TNT promotes TV series with NFC-enabled New York storefront
The ambitious campaign saw out-of-home agency Pearl Media convert a shop window into a crime scene that let passers by interact with the display to solve a murder mystery and sign up for alerts from the show via NFC, QR codes and Bluetooth. More
BNP Paribas and Orange to launch next-generation mobile bank
“Customers will be able to access the most innovative m-banking and m-payment services to manage their accounts and make payments using their mobile phones,” say the French banking group and mobile network operator. More
NXP cuts NFC mobile phone production forecast
NXP technology has been designed into more than sixty NFC handsets under development by a number of phone manufacturers, the chip maker’s CEO has told analysts, but no more than 40m NFC phones are now expected to be produced this year — down from a previously forecast 70m to 100m units. More