Car dealerships can use NFC stickers to help customers get details about vehicles for sale, says US startup Gotap.me... More
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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
Galaxy S II Cityzi lands in France
The NFC version of Samsung’s flagship smartphone is now shipping in France... More
Linux kernel gets NFC
The latest version of the Linux kernel, announced this week, brings NFC support to the open source operating system... More
PC app writes NFC tags
NFC tag and equipment supplier BuyNFCtags.com has released a Windows application that enables the user to read and write basic NFC tags using a desktop computer... 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
Liquidators in at Zapa
Dublin-based Zapa Technology has appointed a provisional liquidator, according to the Irish Times... More
Google Wallet teething problems
“Ever since this Google thing, there’s been lots of problems,” a cashier at American Eagle Outfitters has confided to a reporter from AdAge... 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
Google Maps asks for NFC
The latest version of Google Maps for Android, available today, now asks for user permission to ‘control NFC’ upon installation... More
Forum and Continua collaborate
Health industry group Continua Health Alliance and the NFC Forum have agreed to work together to expand connectivity standards in the medical IT field... More
ThingLink adds NFC to images
Online image tagging service ThingLink has added support for NFC... More
Tagstand raises $1.1m
NFC startup Tagstand has raised a further US$1.1m, following seed stage funding from tech incubator Y Combinator, reports TechCrunch... More
Macy’s readies for Google Wallet
US department stores Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s are replacing signature pads at all 50,000 point-of-sale terminals with new customer response units developed by Verifone, reports Retail Touchpoints... More
Hungary confirms NFC for 2012
The Hungarian mWallet Association, an alliance between Magyar Telekom, Telenor, Vodafone, MasterCard, OTP Bank and SuperShop, has confirmed plans for a commercial launch of NFC-based mobile wallet services in 2012... More
Citi and America Movil form JV
Citigroup and América Móvil have created a US$50m joint venture to explore opportunities in mobile payments and banking... More