Digital artist Anthony Antonellis has embedded an NFC-compatible RFID chip in his hand as a way of sharing his artwork with others. More
Artist embeds NFC chip in hand to share digital art
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- NFC Forum survey finds majority of consumers now prefer making payments with their mobile phone
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Vivo to launch NFC in Brazil
Mobile network operator Vivo and financial services group Bradesco are to introduce NFC payments in a number of cities in Brazil this year, ahead of a nationwide rollout in 2014... More
Omron launches NFC weight loss tracker
Omron Healthcare has launched an activity monitor that can be synced with an online dashboard via an NFC ‘tray’ that plugs into a USB port on a Mac or PC. The aim, Omron says, is to make it easier for wearers to keep track of how many calories they have burned and whether they are currently on target. More
eBay adds NFC to Android app
The latest version of the eBay Mobile app for Android includes support for NFC... More
Asus adds desktop PC with NFC
Asus has announced the M70 desktop PC with integrated NFC capabilities, “for convenient wire-free pairing of desktop PCs with Android smart devices”... More
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Dutch ad panels get NFC
Clear Channel has added NFC and QR code functionality to 250 advertising panels in the Dutch cities of Amsterdam, Eindhoven, The Hague, Rotterdam and Maastricht... More
Capital One exits Isis pilot
Capital One, one of Isis’ three founder card issuers, is pulling out of the NFC venture’s pilot tests. More
Wright Global Graphics adds NFC
US-based Wright Global Graphics has added an NFC option to its RetaiLive range, enabling marketers to include NFC tags in retail displays, product labels and point-of-purchase materials produced by the printer... More
Stagecoach adds NFC to Cambridge bus stops
UK public transportation operator Stagecoach has begun adding NFC tags to bus stops in the city of Cambridge, to provide travellers with up to date information on bus arrival times. More
Vipnet adds NFC transit payments in Croatia
Croatian carrier Vipnet has added NFC to its mPrijevoz service, allowing commuters in the city of Osijek to store their monthly Butra transport pass on their smartphone and validate it using contactless readers installed on buses and trams. Customers in Zagreb can also use NFC to pay for Nextbike rentals. More
GoToTags launches high speed NFC tag encoding system
NFC specialist GoToTags has released a software and reel-to-reel hardware solution that enables large volumes of NFC tags to be encoded at high speed. More
Cityzi hits 4m phones
More than four million mobile phone users in France now have a Cityzi compatible NFC handset, French NFC trade association AFSCM reports, an increase of 500,000 since July 2013... More
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French firms to develop mobile services for the elderly and disabled
A consortium of 11 French organisations, including NFC specialist Think&Go NFC, are to develop a range of digital services designed to help the elderly and partially sighted remain autonomous in their daily lives. More
Oberthur gets Mifare app approval
Oberthur Technologies has become the first supplier to achieve EAL4+ security certification for its Mifare DesFire transport application for mobile, the company says... More
New Zealand NFC wallet to launch in 2014
The new CEO of TSM NZ, the NFC joint venture formed by Paymark, Telecom New Zealand, Vodafone and 2degrees in 2012, has announced that its mobile wallet will be available to the New Zealand market in the second half of 2014. More
Swisscom picks Trüb and Sequent for NFC
Mobile network operator Swisscom is to use technology developed by Sequent Software and delivered by Trüb to enable bank card issuers and other service providers to provision cards over-the-air to subscribers’ NFC phones. More
No NFC for iPhone 5S
Two new iPhones have been unveiled by Apple, a flagship iPhone 5S and a lower cost iPhone 5C. A Touch ID fingerprint sensor has been built into the home button on the iPhone 5S, as was widely anticipated, but NFC appears to have been omitted from the device yet again. More
Monet+ adds Windows logins via NFC
Czech smart card specialist Monet+ and mobile network operator Telefónica have teamed up to create ProID+ Mobile, a solution that enables Android phone users to log in to a computer running Windows using credentials stored on the SIM in their NFC phone. More
UK college uses NFC to help teach English
A British college has used NFC touch points placed around its campus to help foreign language students improve their English — and found that the NFC tags offer a number of important advantages over an earlier version that used QR codes. More
Maplin and RapidNFC bring NFC tags to the high street
UK electronics retailer Maplin has teamed with RapidNFC to bring NFC tags to the British high street through its 200 stores. More