Near Field Communications World

Infineon, Giesecke & Devrient, Oberthur Technologies and Inside Contactless have teamed up to support the creation of an open security standard for mobile and chip-based transport tickets. More

"M-commerce is a strategic priority," says Visa Europe's head of UK and Ireland, "we are working and talking with all the mobile operators and handset manufacturers to develop standards for payment on mobile phones." More

The NFC specialist is making its NFC protocol stack available via an Apache open source license, in a move that should make it simpler and easier for manufacturers to add NFC functionality to mobile phones and other devices.  More

OPINION: It has become received wisdom in NFC circles that Japan and Korea, where mobile contactless services were successful established by one lead player, are unique and can't be repeated elsewhere. More

Since April 2009 the payments network has been running an internal pilot designed to find out how US consumers would respond to the introduction of mobile contactless stickers — with some surprising results. More

The move to contactless cards and NFC-compatible point-of-sale terminals is gathering pace with banks in Italy and Poland announcing plans for widespread contactless card deployments this year. More