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May 11th, 2009
Bundesdruckerei plans to link NFC and electronic identity cards
The German security documents group is to work with the NFC Forum to harmonise eID and NFC standards so that mobile phones can enable electronic ID cards to be used as proof of identity for secure transactions on the internet. More
December 4th, 2008
Reslink signs up new distributors in the UK and Southeast Asia
Two more companies have signed up to become resellers of the Finnish workforce management solutions specialist's NFC-based time and attendance and location-sensitive data capture solutions. More
October 28th, 2008
Dutch think tank reports on the impact of NFC and consumer data privacy issues
When it comes to designing NFC ecosystems, solutions that appear to be logical and beneficial for the actors involved may not prove to be in the customers' best interests, says a new report by Dutch technology think tank Rathenau Institute More
October 22nd, 2008
NTT to trial technology that stores loyalty cards on mobile phones
NTT's new patent pending Key-Shuttle platform enables loyalty points, ID photos and other membership information from over a hundred retailers to all be registered and accessed from a customers' mobile phone. More
Editor's picks
- China Mobile begins commercial rollout of mobile contactless payments system
- Visa Europe to invest €200m in development of contactless payments by card and mobile
- Discover reveals the results of its mobile sticker trial
- One of the players must take on the risk before NFC can succeed, says founder of Japanese mobile wallet
- Banks and mobile operators to go head to head for NFC mobile payments business
- Apple Grab & Go patent details how the iPhone could use NFC
