Technology
February 11th, 2010
NFC Forum spec adds digital signatures to prevent tag tampering
The standards body has published an important draft specification that will enable developers to protect NFC tags in smart posters and other applications from being tampered with or replaced with an imposter tag. More
December 16th, 2009
GSMA, EMVCo and GlobalPlatform to develop cross-industry NFC certification process
The three associations will design a model which will allow certification processes to be put in place to ensure that any NFC payments application will work on any platform. More
September 11th, 2009
French government funds thirteen NFC and RFID innovation projects
Plans to add NFC to Android phones, to develop a universal NFC wallet user interface and to test an NFC-based museum information system at the Pompidou Centre in Paris are amongst the projects that will receive grants worth a total of 'several million euros'. More
August 3rd, 2009
Innovision raises £5.4 million to fund its next phase of NFC growth
The funding will enable the company to capitalise on international opportunities in both the NFC and the RFID markets. More
July 29th, 2009
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
July 8th, 2009
Apple to build NFC into the next generation iPhone’s touchscreen?
A patent application for a 'Touch Screen RFID Tag Reader', filed by Apple in December 2007, has been published on the US Patent & Trademark Office website. More
July 7th, 2009
Motorola joins NFC patent pool
The mobile communications giant has added its NFC-related patents to a pool of IP and rights managed and made available for joint licensing by Via Licensing. More
June 16th, 2009
Twinlinx signs development deal with Bouygues Telecom incubator
The French mobile network operator is providing financial backing and resources to Twinlinx, the start-up developing a sticker that can add full NFC functionality to any Bluetooth-enabled phone. More
June 1st, 2009
Innovision deals expected to lead to low-cost mass market NFC phones
Three new licensing deals should see NFC being built into mass market handsets for under $1 — but not until 2013, says Innovision CEO David Wollen. More
May 28th, 2009
Alliance sets out collaborative business model for NFC payments
Collaboration and leveraging proven technology and a merchant infrastructure that is already in place are the keys to making NFC payments a reality, says a new white paper from the Smart Card Alliance. More
May 19th, 2009
NFC Forum publishes candidate specs for device interoperability and peer-to-peer communication
The NFC Digital Protocol and the Logical Link Control Protocol candidate specifications are now available to download from the NFC Forum website. More
May 11th, 2009
GlobalPlatform sets out stall on multi-application NFC systems
A new, detailed white paper explains the work the international smart card specifications body has completed so far and outlines its future plans. More
February 9th, 2009
Fraunhofer researcher delivers update on NFC vulnerabilities
URI spoofing and redirection — where an authorised NFC tag is replaced with one that points to a resource under a fraudster's control — is still an issue, says security researcher Collin Mulliner. More
January 12th, 2009
CES 2009: NFC competitors and enablers on display
There wasn't much to see in the way of mainstream NFC developments at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show — but some interesting potentially competitive technologies and enabling solutions made the massive Las Vegas event worth casting an eye over. More
January 12th, 2009
Tyfone puts NFC into microSD cards
The company's patented technology allows an NFC secure element, controller and antenna to be built into SD and microSD cards, making it possible for mobile phone and PDA owners to add near field communication capabilities to their devices by just adding a Tyfone card. More
December 12th, 2008
Casagras takes a step towards defining the ‘Internet of Things’
The 'Internet of Things' is one of those terms that everyone vaguely understands — but is almost impossible to describe exactly. At a meeting in Shanghai last week, members of the Casagras project sat down to thrash out a definition and a vision statement that would be acceptable to all. More
December 12th, 2008
NFC and flexible OLEDs could light up product packaging
The EU-funded Rolled project has developed a cost-effective way to produce flexible, organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) using roll-to-roll manufacturing technology. That means they could be mass produced very cheaply and an NFC phone could be used to interact with OLEDs incorporated into everything from product packaging to posters and beyond. 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
