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July 15th, 2010

Rfinity expands BYU-Idaho University NFC pilot to local stores and shoppers

Rfinity has signed a deal with Citizens Community Bank that sees its NFC payment trial at Brigham Young University's Idaho campus expanded to include both non-University students and off-campus merchants. The trial at BYU-Idaho began... More

June 3rd, 2010

China Mobile to drop RF SIM in favour of NFC?

China's largest mobile network operator is coming under pressure from MIIT, the national technology regulator, to join the Chinese banks and its two rival operators China Unicom and China Telecom in adopting a single, national mobile payments standard based on NFC standard technology.  More

March 8th, 2010

Blackboard adds NFC and contactless support to campus card system

Blackboard, which supplies campus card solutions to hundreds of higher education institutes, has launched a new contactless and NFC-compatible version of its Blackboard Transact card system, based on Sony FeliCa contactless technology. Release 3.6 is... More

January 14th, 2010

Banks and mobile operators to go head to head for NFC mobile payments business

Banks and mobile network operators are set to go head to head in a bid to control the market for NFC mobile payments services, according to a new research report published today. "NFC mobile phones... More

October 8th, 2009

Swedish Universities begin roll out of NFC payments system

Swedish Universities begin roll out of NFC payments system

Payments processor Payex is installing a mobile payments system at a number of Swedish universities with more than 100,000 students, initially using NFC stickers but later moving to NFC phones, expected to enrol over the next six months. More

September 16th, 2009

BYU-Idaho students spend, spend, spend with their NFC phones

BYU-Idaho students spend, spend, spend with their NFC phones

Students taking part in a new trial of micro-SD based NFC payments at Brigham Young University in Idaho have already used their phones to buy everything from candy bars to $1,600 laptops. More

July 29th, 2009

Brigham Young University to test new NFC microSD solution

Brigham Young University to test new NFC microSD solution

Students at BYU-Idaho will begin testing an NFC microSD solution from Rfinity in September. More

October 28th, 2008

Oulu, the little city with big ideas

Oulu, the little city with big ideas

If you've been keeping an eye on NFC you'll have noticed that a lot of innovative experimentation is taking place in the Finnish town of Oulu. And if you've been wondering why a place you've otherwise never heard of is at the forefront of testing NFC concepts, an article in Computing magazine now has the explanation you've been looking for... More

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