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September 2nd, 2010

Broadcom sets out its plans for NFC

Three months after it announced plans to buy NFC specialist Innovision for US$47.5m, the deal has completed and Broadcom VP Craig Ochikubo has spoken to NFC World about the company's ambitions for Innovision and for the NFC market as a whole. More

August 19th, 2010

Tyfone picks up $5m investment

NFC specialist Tyfone has raised additional funding of US$4,963,364, according to a newly published SEC filing. Tyfone first announced in January 2009 that it had developed a microSD format NFC solution that could be retrofitted... More

August 13th, 2010

Twinlinx to begin shipping MyMax NFC stickers in September

The first 10,000 MyMax stickers, which enable full NFC functionality to be added to any Bluetooth mobile phone, are now in production and field trials are expected to take place before the end of this year. More

July 19th, 2010

Lenovo adds NFC functionality to ThinkPad laptop PCs

Laptop computer maker Lenovo has begun offering near field communication functionality as an optional extra to buyers of its T410, T510 and W510 ThinkPad laptops. The NFC option is available now to enterprise clients and... More

July 2nd, 2010

Nokia: MeeGo will include NFC too

Nokia's new head of mobile solutions, Anssi Vanjoki, has revealed that near field communication functionality will be a core capability of the new MeeGo operating system. In a blog post entitled 'The fightback starts now',... More

June 22nd, 2010

Nexperts and PharmaFabula win NFC Forum’s 2010 competition

The winning entries in this year's NFC Forum Global Competition include retail payments, healthcare, education and social networking applications. More

June 17th, 2010

All new Nokia smartphones to come with NFC from 2011

The announcement was made by a top Nokia executive at the Mobey Forum's 10th anniversary meeting in Helsinki this morning. More

June 16th, 2010

Innovision launches 512 byte NFC tag

Innovision Research & Technology has launched a new NFC tag with more than five times the memory of its existing NFC tag. Both are NFC Forum Type 1 tags and are, therefore, compatible with any... More

June 7th, 2010

No NFC in iPhone 4G

Apple’s fourth generation iPhone sports a slew of new features but will not have built-in NFC capability. The company’s chief executive, Steve Jobs, revealed the latest version of the best-selling mobile handset during a keynote... More

June 4th, 2010

Innovision signs $6m IP licensing deal

NFC chipset technology specialist Innovision has signed a licensing agreement with a "major global semiconductor corporation". The unnamed semiconductor manufacturer will use Innovision's Gem NFC intellectual property to build NFC functionality into high volume chipsets for... More

June 4th, 2010

Innovision unveils next-generation NFC phone technology

Adding NFC functionality to a mobile phone will soon cost less than a dollar, says Innovision's Stephen Graham, with 15% to 20% of all the handsets shipped in 2012 set to include the company's low-cost NFC technology. More

June 2nd, 2010

Discover, MasterCard certify new mobile contactless stickers from Inside and CPI

A new range of contactless stickers, designed to be attached to the back of a mobile phone, have been certified by MasterCard and Discover Financial Services. The stickers, developed by Inside Contactless and manufactured in the US by CPI... More

May 4th, 2010

Inside Contactless to acquire Atmel’s secure microcontroller business

Inside Contactless has agreed to acquire Atmel's Secure Microcontroller Solutions (SMS) business, based in Rousset, France and East Kilbride, UK. The financing for the purchase is being provided by Inside's existing investors, led by Gimv... More

April 28th, 2010

TazTag’s stand-alone NFC device to hit the market by the end of 2010

TazCard, a stand-alone NFC device which communicates via USB and Zigbee instead of a mobile network connection, is set to launch by the end of 2010 with a target price of €150 — and a very different approach to building NFC ecosystems. More

April 23rd, 2010

NXP and Trusted Logic release open source Android NFC API

NXP and Trusted Logic have released an open source NFC Android API designed to work with a second generation NFC Android stack developed by the two companies which, they say, "provides a complete integration into... More

April 23rd, 2010

Inside Contactless to make Open NFC source code and API available on Sourceforge.net

Developers looking to create NFC solutions and devices will now be able to download the company's NFC protocol stack for Android, MeeGo, Linux and Windows Mobile phones from the Sourceforge free open source software website. More

April 21st, 2010

Innovision opens online store for NFC tags

Innovision Research & Technology has launched BuyNFC.com, an online store for NFC application developers and consumers looking to purchase NFC tags. BuyNFC.com offers Innovision's Topaz NFC tags in a wide range of form factors including... More

April 21st, 2010

Gizmodo takes apart ‘the next iPhone’ — could it have NFC?

Gadget blog Gizmodo has got its hands on what appears to be an early version of the next iPhone, expected to be released later this year. Gizmodo got hold of the device after it was... More

April 15th, 2010

Netribe is a platform, not a phone, says Sagem Wireless

The new Sagem Netribe which we reported on earlier this week is not a specific phone, Sagem Wireless has now told NFC World. Rather, says the company, it is "an Android platform on which we... More

April 13th, 2010

Cassis opens up for business in the Americas, sees NFC market opportunities in Canada and US

Singapore-based trusted service management (TSM) specialist Cassis International has opened an office in New York, giving it a foothold in the American market for the first time. The newly formed Cassis Americas is headed by... More

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