The NFC Forum has chosen to use Broadcom‘s recently announced BCM2079x NFC controller chips to validate its NFC device certification test suite... More
Koichi Tagawa
NFC Forum adds 29 new members
Companies joining the NFC standards association include advertising agency Dentsu, handset makers HTC and ZTE, MNO payments joint venture Isis and, at board level, UK-based Barclaycard. More
NFC Forum publishes peer-to-peer communications specification
The new SNEP specification employs the same NDEF commands used in tag reading and writing applications, allowing information stored on an NFC tag to be read by a phone and then passed on to other NFC phones or exchanged with a wide range of other types of NFC-enabled device. More
NFC Forum partners with National Retail Federation, APSCA and Open Mobile Alliance
The NFC standards organisation has signed partnership deals with the NRF’s ARTS division as well as the Asia Pacific Smart Card Association and the Open Mobile Alliance. More
NFC Forum appoints MasterCard’s James Anderson as vice chairman
James Anderson, group head and senior vice president for mobile product development at MasterCard Worldwide, has been appointed vice chairman of NFC standards association the NFC Forum... More
Google joins the NFC Forum
The internet giant is one of 32 new members of the NFC standards organisation. Other well known names to join the association include car maker Daimler and electronics giant Hitachi. More
NFC Forum joins up with GSMA, EMVCo and Smart Card Alliance
The NFC Forum has signed a series of agreements, with the GSM Association (GSMA), EMVCo and the Smart Card Alliance, designed to enable it to work more closely with each of the associations on the development of the NFC market and near field communication-based solutions... More
NFC Forum and Mobey Forum to work together on the development of mobile payments standards
The NFC trade association has signed a collaboration agreement with the international mobile financial services forum to develop open standards for the delivery of secure, interoperable mobile financial transactions. More