The NFC chip specialist has hired IP commercialisation specialist France Brevets to handle licensing of more than seventy patents — including a core patent that is expected to mean any manufacturer incorporating an NFC controller into their device will need to acquire a license. More
Google CEO Larry Page has taken to the search giant’s blog to announce the completion of its acquisition of Motorola Mobility — and obliquely mentioned NFC’s key role in Google’s plans for the future... More
Google staffer Paul Carff has produced a video showing an NFC-enabled beer tap that uses NFC badges, an NFC reader/writer, a Motorola Xoom tablet and an Arduino microcontroller to automatically dispense a brew to badge holders — provided their badge contains the ID information necessary to prove that they are, for instance, old enough to drink alcohol... More
Motorola is to use fingerprint biometrics in future NFC handsets to eliminate PIN locks on mobile wallets... More
Vivotech has completed a Series D funding round, bringing the total the NFC and contactless specialist has raised to date to US$96m... More
The three card issuers’ 100 million customers will be able to store a full range of credit, debit and prepaid cards, as well as loyalty cards and special offer coupons, on their NFC mobile phones. More
The prospectus for Inside Secure’s IPO this month shows that the company made US$47m from the sale of NFC chips in 2011, that these were mainly delivered to RIM for use in BlackBerry NFC smartphones and that Inside believes it now has a share of close to 50% of the overall market for NFC chips for mobile phones. More
The core trusted service management (TSM) platform to be used by the US NFC joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless will be provided by France-based Gemalto. More
The mobile banking platform provider will use $18m of new funding for “the development of new payments-related mobile products and services targeted at financial institutions and mobile network operators.” More
A teardown of the new Motorola Droid Razr conducted for Engadget has discovered that the smartphone includes an NXP PN544 NFC controller chip... More
Motorola Mobility has announced two Bluetooth headsets, both offering NFC-initiated pairing when used with NFC-equipped phones... More
HTC, LG, Motorola Mobility, RIM, Samsung Mobile and Sony Ericsson as well as MicroSD device maker DeviceFidelity have agreed to implement Isis NFC and technology standards. More
“The conditions are now right to create a strong market,” says Goode Intelligence which forecasts that the current global user base of four million mobile biometrics users will grow to 39 million by 2015. More
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
NFC specialist Vivotech has closed a US$24 million Series C round of funding... More
Motorola is rumoured to be introducing two new NFC-enabled phones in the first quarter of 2012, according to DroidLife... More
Motorola has unveiled an NFC-enabled mobile computer, a seven-in-one device that combines mobile communication and secure contactless transaction capability... More
Motorola is set to launch a number of NFC-based enterprise solutions next week, the company’s Andy McBain has told eWeek: ... More
Motorola has said it will only add NFC to its smartphones when it believes the market is ready, TechRadar reports... More
The US$119 GT-601 NFC handset is designed for “people who are concerned only with basic voice communication, mobile payments, social networks, and diagnostics using a low-cost mobile wireless device,” says Gentag. More