British mobile workforce and goods tracking specialist Skillweb has launched an NFC and QR code-based proof of attendance service... More
Archive: News in brief
Inside confirms Lumia 610 win
Inside Secure has officially confirmed that it is the NFC technology supplier for Nokia’s first Windows Phone with NFC, the Lumia 610... More
NFC goes local in Strasbourg
A public information service accessed via NFC tags and QR codes is now available in Strasbourg, France... More
Identive adds NFC magnets
Identive has added window stickers and magnets to its range of NFC tags... More
Quad produces Lexus ad
US print giant Quad/Graphics has revealed it produced the 500,000 NFC-tagged inserts included in Wired magazine’s April 2012 issue... More
TapMeTags opens in Canada
A new NFC tag supplier has opened in Toronto, Canada... More
Inside revenues grow 94%
Inside Secure’s consolidated revenues grew 94% to US$151m in 2011, due mostly to strong sales of NFC chips... More
Eclipse NDEF plugin released
An NFC plugin is now available for the Eclipse software development environment... More
University gets NFC canteen
Pennsylvania’s Shippensburg University is testing payments via contactless stickers in two of its cafeterias... More
Sony scans dabs with screens
Phone maker Sony has applied for a patent which could see fingerprint sensors and cameras built into mobile phone screens... More
Grenoble builds NFC system
Grenoble is to get a local NFC payments system, reports 20minutes.fr... More
Google buys payments firm
Google has acquired platform-as-a-service (PaaS) electronic payments technology provider TxVia... More
UL acquires Collis
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
Wallet engineer heads to Square
Rob von Behren, a co-founder of Google Wallet, has left the search giant to join Square as a “hyperspatial payments pioneer”... More
Olivetti preps NFC tablets
Italian computer manufacturer Olivetti looks set to release two Android 4.0 tablets, both sporting NFC... More
Smartrac acquires UPM RFID
RFID giant Smartrac has completed its acquisition of UPM’s RFID business, a leading supplier of NFC tags... More
Berg forecasts 700m NFC phones
The number of NFC phones shipped will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 87.8% between now and 2016, according to a new forecast from Berg Insight, taking the number of phones shipped from 2011’s 30m to 700m in 2016... More
Cipurse SDK now available
A software development kit (SDK) for the Cipurse open transit ticketing standard, developed by the OSPT Alliance, is now available... More
Wallet users get $5 credit
Google is topping up Google Wallet prepaid card accounts with an extra US$5 credit, The Verge reports... More
Orange aims at 3m NFC phones
Orange plans to provide three million SIM-based NFC devices to customers based in the European Union in 2012, according to Stéphane Richard, chairman and CEO of France Telecom-Orange... More