Archive for March 2010

• Retail partnerships are the key to a new NFC business model 29 Mar 10
• SK Telecom and Hana launch SIM-based mobile contactless payments and promotions service 25 Mar 10
• Adirondack Trust launches mobile contactless payments in New York State 24 Mar 10
• ZigBee SIMs with built-in antennas to add payments, ticketing, P2P and coupons to standard mobile phones 24 Mar 10
• Finalists announced for 2010 NFC Forum Global Competition 24 Mar 10
• GlobalPlatform adds Trusted Service Manager Working Group 24 Mar 10
• VTT video shows NFC social networking service in action 24 Mar 10
• French national home care services association to roll out NFC services 24 Mar 10
• Alcatel-Lucent introduces turnkey pay-as-you-go mobile wallet platform for operators 23 Mar 10
• NBS adds NFC to its UbiQ card personalisation system 22 Mar 10
• Eastcompeace to offer RF SIM cards 19 Mar 10
• Apple planning role as mobile Trusted Service Manager? 18 Mar 10
• Could PayPal bump NFC’s P2P ambitions into touch? 18 Mar 10
• China UnionPay begins major expansion of NFC project 17 Mar 10
• First Data to offer Tyfone’s SideTap NFC MicroSD cards, will run first trials in US from mid-2010 16 Mar 10
• Banks get serious about NFC 15 Mar 10
• Ericsson Labs adds QR code support to NFC and RFID tag developer tool 12 Mar 10
• Barclaycard and Orange to launch commercial NFC service by the end of 2010 11 Mar 10
• Citi’s Bangalore trial: Offering cardholders phone subsidies can kickstart NFC transaction volumes 11 Mar 10
• DeviceFidelity signs up first licensees for its In2Pay NFC microSD solution 11 Mar 10