Chip maker AMS has unveiled a sensor-enabled NFC tag that could be used in a subdermal implant, enabling diabetes sufferers to read their glucose levels at any time by simply holding an NFC phone to a tiny device implanted under their skin — and replacing the need for finger pricking and dedicated glucose monitoring devices... More
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Electronics retailer opens NFC and QR shopping walls in Russian subway
Electronics retailer Media Markt has begun testing ‘shopping walls’ at a Moscow subway station, in partnership with the Moscow Department of Transportation. The concept makes use of both NFC and QR codes and will run until November. More
Sony unveils NFC-enabled Nex compact camera
Sony has included NFC and WiFi functionality in its NEX-5T compact camera... More
NFC Task Launcher gets update
Popular Android app NFC Task Launcher has received a new update... More
NFC keyboard arrives in US
Norwegian hardware developer One2Touch’s NFC keyboard for Android smartphones is now available in the US through retailer Brookstone for $99... More
Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch to include NFC?
Samsung’s long rumoured smartwatch may be unveiled as early as next month and could boast NFC as one of its many features... More
Sprint brings Samsung Ativ S Neo to US
An updated version of Samsung’s Windows Phone 8 Ativ S, the Ativ S Neo, is now available to Sprint customers in the US... More
TapCheck to launch NFC medical devices
A range of NFC-enabled healthcare and wellness devices developed by Hong Kong-based Plus Prevention are to be unveiled at the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin on 6 September... More
Starwood Hotels pushes app downloads with NFC in China
Starwood Preferred Guest, the loyalty programme from international hotel chain Starwood Hotels, is using NFC to help promote downloads of its newly launched Chinese Android app... More
LG shows off G2 NFC smartphone with rear buttons
LG has unveiled its latest flagship handset, the LG G2, an NFC smartphone with buttons on the rear for ease of use... More
HTC Desire 500 heading to Europe with NFC version
The HTC Desire 500 will launch across Europe this month with NFC and dual SIM versions available in some markets... More
Nike promotes running app via NFC
Nike is using Tapit’s NFC platform to offer easy app downloads ahead of Sydney’s biggest running race, City 2 Surf, which takes place on 11 August... More
Motorola unveils customisable Moto X with NFC
Motorola has announced the Moto X, a customisable NFC handset that lets customers choose from more than 2,000 combinations of colour, cover, memory and wallpaper... More
ING Romania launches NFC wallet
ING Bank Romania has made its ING Pay NFC mobile wallet available to customers, after a year-long in-house trial... More
RBC to launch NFC payments in the cloud
Canadian bank RBC is to introduce an NFC mobile payments service that stores customers’ card details in the cloud... More
Guinness offers free pints to NFC phone owners
Guinness fans around the UK can tap their Android or BlackBerry NFC phone to an NFC-enabled pub drinks dispenser to get the chance of winning a free pint of the black stuff, courtesy of a promotion being run until the end of August by the Diageo-owned brand... More
iPhone NFC payments arrive in the UK
The Moneto prepaid mobile wallet service, which uses DeviceFidelity’s microSD-based NFC technology, is now available in the UK via a partnership with payments processor Kalixa Group and MasterCard... More
Three new Motos boast NFC
Motorola has launched three Android 4.2 smartphones, all with NFC... More
Irish restaurant chain picks NFC P2P payments and rewards
Dublin-based Graham O’Sullivan Restaurants has contracted retail software specialist Escher Group to deliver an NFC- and QR-based payments and rewards service that uses NFC’s peer-to-peer (P2P) capabilities... More
Brother picks Broadcom for NFC
A new range of Brother multi-function printers will use Broadcom’s BCM20792 NFC controller for one tap printing from mobile devices... More