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
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Santander unveils first NFC wallet to offer both Visa and MasterCard payments
The banking giant, the eighth largest in the world, has partnered with Orange for the development and introduction of the first NFC payments solution to support cards issued by both Visa and MasterCard. More
Inside Secure ships 17.4m NFC chips, mostly to RIM
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
HID reports results of NFC pilot at Arizona State University
The access control specialist’s NFC campus pilot is now complete, all participants are reporting positive results and a video showing the system in action has been produced. More
NFC Playbook on the way?
RIM is rumoured to be lining up an NFC-enabled BlackBerry PlayBook tablet for May or June release, according to BGR... More
Turkcell launches NFC payments on BlackBerry phones
The Turkish mobile network operator has become the first in the world to offer its subscribers the ability to make payments with their NFC-enabled BlackBerry mobile phones. More
RapidNFC compares performance of NFC tags
“The difference in NFC tag performance was both significant and surprising,” says the NFC tag provider, and there was one clear winner in terms of overall performance. More
RIM switches on BlackBerry Tag
RIM has begun rolling out the BlackBerry 7.1 operating system update, which includes the NFC-based BlackBerry Tag service... More
Visa certifies Samsung, LG and BlackBerry NFC phones for mobile payments
The Samsung Galaxy S II, LG Optimus Net NFC, BlackBerry Bold 9900/9790 and BlackBerry Curve 9360/9380 have now been added to the list of approved Visa payments products, enabling financial institutions to use them in commercial NFC deployments for the first time. More
Porsche BlackBerry NFC phone arrives at Harrods
Iconic London department store Harrods has become the exclusive UK stockist of the NFC BlackBerry phone co-produced by RIM and Porsche Design... More
RIM to launch UK NFC campaign
RIM is to run a series of marketing campaigns designed to educate UK consumers on the benefits of NFC during 2012... More
Isis picks Gemalto for NFC mobile commerce platform
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
RIM begins NFC marketing campaign
The BlackBerry maker is to showcase the potential of the NFC functionality in its latest smartphones via smart posters and tokens distributed by street crews in Australia. More
Telefonica begins BlackBerry NFC trial
“We look forward to seeing the launch of commercial wallet services in several markets next year,” says the CEO of Telefónica Digital. More
BlackBerry 7.1 adds NFC P2P
RIM has now added support for NFC peer-to-peer applications with the release of the software development kit for the BlackBerry 7.1 operating system... More
RIM adds two more NFC BlackBerrys
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has announced two new NFC-enabled handsets, bringing its range of NFC phones to eight devices. More
RIM publishes NFC tag primer
BlackBerry maker RIM has published a second NFC primer for developers creating NFC applications for BlackBerry smartphones... More
Mobile payments arrive on BlackBerry phones
Carriers and banks around the world can now use the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and the BlackBerry Curve 9360 smartphones to deliver MasterCard-approved NFC mobile payments services. More
RIM to switch on BlackBerry NFC mobile payments in Dubai
Subscribers of UAE-based network Etisalat are set to be among the first in the world to make mobile payments on their BlackBerry NFC phones. More
RIM unveils BlackBerry Tag service
BlackBerry Tag will let RIM NFC phone users add each other as BBM contacts and share multimedia content via NFC. More