The BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 NFC-enabled smartphones will start shipping “later this month”, Research in Motion has announced... More
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Vodafone tests NFC in New Zealand
Vodafone is testing NFC technology in New Zealand, the mobile network operator’s local chief executive Russell Stanners has told The New Zealand Herald... More
BlackBerry Bold 9900 NFC phone to ship on September 15?
Amazon UK has added the BlackBerry Bold 9900 NFC smartphone to its website... More
ANZ Bank: We like NFC, but not via microSD
“At this stage, we will not be progressing with microSD as a contactless payment technology platform,” says the Australian banking giant. More
BPCE and Visa to test NFC microSD in Nice and Strasbourg
BPCE, France’s second largest banking group and owner of both Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne, is teaming up with Visa to conduct a pilot test of NFC MicroSD cards in the cities of Nice and Strasbourg this autumn... More
YouGov launches quarterly mobile payments survey
Market research firm YouGov has found 70% of British consumers haven’t heard of mobile wallets and 91% haven’t heard of NFC technology... More
MasterCard and ANZ launch New Zealand’s first NFC payment trial
Bank staff have been given contactless stickers or NFC-enabled microSD cards to enable mobile payments using MasterCard PayPass as the card giant puts its Australasian roadmap into operation. More
RIM releases BlackBerry NFC APIs
Support for both tag reading/writing and card emulation applications are included in the BlackBerry Java SDK v7.0, ready for the forthcoming launch of the NFC-enabled BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 smartphones. More
Heads up: What to look for in Google’s NFC mobile payments announcement
The internet giant is set to announce its NFC mobile payments strategy at noon on 26 May in New York. Here are the key things to look for to work out if the company’s strategy will succeed — and what it means for the payments industry, the mobile network operators, phone manufacturers, the firm’s competitors and the future of Google’s own advertising business. More
NFC news in brief • 23 May 2011
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: Twitter and Docomo add ‘touch and follow’ • Doubletwist shares songs with NFC • Airtag offers P2P loyalty • Lifera and Taztag tie up • Lockitron opens doors with NFC • DPT unveils NFC-enabled car park pay machine • SK C&C USA rebrands as CorFire • Bayer puts antennas into decorative films • Mobey Forum expands • and much more… More
RIM UK: BlackBerry phones have unique advantages for NFC
BlackBerry phones have a number of advantages when it comes to NFC, says Research in Motion (RIM) UK MD Stephen Bates... More
RIM unveils BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 NFC phones
After months of speculation, Research in Motion has formally announced that its new touchscreen BlackBerry Bold smartphones will come with near field communication capabilities. More
Microsoft bringing NFC to Windows phones this year?
Software giant Microsoft could be introducing NFC capabilities to Windows mobile phones as soon as this year, according to Bloomberg:... More
RIM’s NFC plans hit resistance from mobile network operators
Research in Motion is meeting with resistance from mobile network operators over its plans to offer NFC services via near field communication chips embedded in forthcoming BlackBerry handsets, the Wall Street Journal reports... More
‘Virtually all’ BlackBerry phones to include NFC
Virtually all new BlackBerry devices from now on will include near field communication capabilities, Research in Motion‘s UK managing director has said... More
Bank of America adds BlackBerry phones to NFC trial
BoyGeniusReport has revealed details of a new invitation-only NFC payments trial to be conducted by Bank of America... More
“Many, if not most” BlackBerry handsets to have NFC in 2011
Research in Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie has further confirmed the BlackBerry maker’s plans to add near field communication functionality to its mobile phones at the Mobile World Congress this week... More
Leaked roadmap shows CDMA NFC BlackBerry launch dates
BlackBerry tracking site CrackBerry has got hold of a confidential RIM presentation describing the company’s CDMA product introduction plans for 2011... More
Starbucks ‘will continue to explore NFC’
Coffee giant Starbucks has announced that its mobile payment service, first introduced on a pilot basis in Seattle and Silicon Valley during September 2009, is to be rolled out across the US... More
More than 30 job openings now available at Isis NFC joint venture
Isis, the joint venture between mobile network operators AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile which is set to introduce a commercial NFC service in the US from 2012, has posted more than thirty job vacancies on its website... More