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Archive: News in brief
Chongqing gets NFC wallet
CRC Bank has launched China UnionPay’s NFC-based mobile payments system in Chongqing, south west China... More
Conti shows NFC car keys
Auto components manufacturer Continental demonstrated its NFC car key concept at last month’s IAA Motor Show in Frankfurt... More
Germans not ready for m-payments
Just one in four Germans wants to pay for goods with their mobile phone and 54% don’t want to use any form of mobile payment, according to a survey conducted by management consultancy Putz & Partner... More
ABI forecasts NFC spend
More than US$100bn will be spent worldwide using NFC in 2016 according to NFC Mobile Payments, a new report from ABI Research... More
Fed studies P2P payments
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Retail Payments Risk Forum has published a working paper (PDF) on peer-to-peer payments as a resource for regulators, consumers, and the payments industry... More
Inside hires NFC evangelist
Digital security specialist Inside Secure has appointed Laurent Sanchez as vice president of applications and ecosystems... More
Aussies call for NFC phones
The Communications Council, an Australian marketing industry body, has urged smartphone makers to release more NFC phones in the country... More
SCM launches NFC dev kit
SCM Microsystems has announced an NFC solutions development kit that includes reader modules, drivers, source code examples for handling device-to-tag and peer-to-peer NFC applications, software development tools, and documentation... More
Next Nexus coming October 11?
Journalists have been invited to “get a look at what’s new from Android” at a Samsung press event subtitled the ‘Google Episode’, which is to be held at the CTIA Enterprise & Applications trade show in the US on October 11... More
Narian lines up retail pilots
NFC specialist Narian Technologies expects to try out its retail applications with a large department store chain and a large supermarket chain in the US in the first quarter of 2012... 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
Quad/Graphics adds NFC to print
Printing giant Quad/Graphics is to show off print solutions that utilise NFC at next week’s DMA tradeshow in Boston... More
BMO rolls out sticker payments
BMO is to become the first major Canadian bank to issue contactless stickers to its customers, says Canoe.ca... More
RIM publishes NFC primer
An NFC primer for developers has been published by BlackBerry maker RIM... More
Square COO dismisses NFC
Payments start-up Square‘s Keith Rabois has dismissed NFC as not offering value to retailers, telling delegates at GigaOm’s Mobilize conference this week that he has “never met a single merchant in the US who says ‘I want this NFC thing.'”... More
RIM tries NFC loyalty in Mexico
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is working on several NFC projects with stores in Mexico, according to Netmedia... More
Nokia updates QT SDK
An online update for Qt SDK 1.1.3 is available from today which, the phone maker says, takes Nokia’s developer offering a significant step forward and “features a new version of Qt Mobility 1.2, which comes with tremendous enhancements compared to our previous Qt Mobility 1.2 beta version.” A free to attend webinar on Getting Started with NFC on Qt is to be held on 11 October... More
NFC Forum readies test tool RFP
The NFC Forum is working on the second wave of its certification programme, due to be completed next year. As part of the project the standards organisation is looking to appoint an RF analog test tool validation services test house... More
Sheetz to accept Google Wallet
US fuel retailer Sheetz is now accepting NFC payments via Google Wallet, according to a post on the company’s Facebook page... More