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February 9th, 2010

China Mobile puts three million RF SIMs into production

China Mobile puts three million RF SIMs into production

Rumours that the world's largest telecoms operator is to introduce a mobile contactless payments and ticketing system using a non-NFC standard technology have been confirmed with the news that three million RF SIMs are now in production. More


February 8th, 2010

Card and chip suppliers to offer open transport ticketing standard

Card and chip suppliers to offer open transport ticketing standard

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


February 4th, 2010

Visa Europe to invest €200m in development of contactless payments by card and mobile

Visa Europe to invest €200m in development of contactless payments by card and mobile

"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


February 3rd, 2010

Inside Contactless makes it easier to add NFC to mobile handsets

Inside Contactless makes it easier to add NFC to mobile handsets

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


January 22nd, 2010

NFC’s fortunes will favour the bold

NFC’s fortunes will favour the bold

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


January 22nd, 2010

Discover reveals the results of its mobile sticker trial

Discover reveals the results of its mobile sticker trial

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


January 21st, 2010

Poland and Italy commit to contactless payments

Poland and Italy commit to contactless payments

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

One of the players must take on the risk before NFC can succeed, says founder of Japanese mobile wallet

January 21st, 2010


Orange and Barclaycard move towards NFC payments launch

January 7th, 2010


Swiss farmer tests unmanned NFC retail payments system

December 22nd, 2009


2010 will be a critical year for NFC

December 22nd, 2009


New report forecasts the road ahead for NFC in 2010 and beyond

December 22nd, 2009


Russian mobile network operators to run joint NFC pilots from 2010

December 17th, 2009


UK government to fund switch to NFC-compatible transport ticketing

December 17th, 2009


GSMA, EMVCo and GlobalPlatform to develop cross-industry NFC certification process

December 16th, 2009


SK Telecom buys stake in Korean card issuer, will launch mobile credit card services in 2010

December 16th, 2009


NFC phones enter mass production

December 3rd, 2009


The NFC Report: Last call to include your products and services

December 3rd, 2009


Fonelabs to produce two million low-cost NFC phones in 2010

December 3rd, 2009


New platform lets mobile operators offer payments, ticketing, loyalty services via stickers or NFC phones

December 3rd, 2009


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