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Apple Rumors Aside, Watch for Samsung M-Commerce; Google Wallet 2.0

Published: May 16 2012

As bloggers and analysts speculate ad nauseum about Apple’s possible NFC mobile-payment plans, they have been missing signs that another big handset maker is gearing up to enable NFC payment from its phones.

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Features

NFC Marks Multiply as Doubts Persist over NFC Forum Touchpoint Icon

Published: Apr 25 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban

Even as the NFC Forum attempts to broaden the reach of its NFC touchpoint symbol, known as the N-Mark, rival marks are surfacing, threatening to present consumers with a fragmented array of NFC icons as the technology rolls out.

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Printer of NFC Lexus Ad: Other Advertisers Interested, Though Waiting for Apple

Published: Apr 11 2012
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Dan Balaban

Despite the added costs, NFC is attracting interest among advertisers of print publications, according to the large printing house that produced a high-profile magazine ad for luxury car brand Lexus.

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Some Banks Continue to Look for Alternatives to SIM-based NFC

Published: Feb 13 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban

While mobile operators continue to push for the SIM card to become the de facto secure element in NFC phones, some banks and other service providers are still seeking alternatives.

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South Korea Takes Lead Globally in NFC Rollouts with Millions of Phones and SIMs

Published: Jan 12 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban

While mobile operators in most other countries are still struggling to roll out even scant volumes of NFC phones that can do payment, ticketing and other applications, South Korea’s telcos have already crossed the 5 million-phone mark–including NFC versions of such high-profile devices as the Samsung Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note.

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The Year Ahead for NFC: Major M-Commerce Rollouts Unlikely Until 2013

Published: Dec 23 2011
By: 
Dan Balaban

2012 was going to be the year that the new era of NFC-based mobile commerce had finally arrived–with Google Wallet rolling out widely, mobile operators in the U.S. and Europe making significant inroads with their own mobile wallets and big Asian m-commerce players generally commercializing NFC, as well.

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Maker of Rugged Phones Enters NFC Market; is Its Price Right?

Published: Sep 23 2011
By: 
Dan Balaban

Sonim Technologies, the maker of rugged work phones, has introduced its first NFC-enabled handset, betting that cleaning companies, security guard firms and home-health care agencies are ready for a more durable–and higher-priced–NFC phone for workforce management.

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UK Contactless to Reach a Tipping Point in 2011?

Published: Jul 28 2011
By: 
Dan Balaban

Contactless payment continues to grow rapidly in the United Kingdom, but transaction volume is still low, and it remains open to debate whether 2011 will be a tipping point for the technology.

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Report: Vast Majority of Consumers Will Need Push to Use NFC Payment

Published: Jul 6 2011
By: 
Dan Balaban

Fewer than 2% of consumers are “highly likely” to adopt NFC payments immediately after the technology is rolled out, according to UK-based research firm Datamonitor.

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Analysis: Quick Tap Launches Fast but Expect Slow Take-up

Published: Jun 9 2011
By: 
Dan Balaban

Mobile operator Orange UK and payment issuer Barclaycard face challenges as they seek to get their “Quick Tap” service off the ground, say UK analysts.

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Infineon to Focus on Market for NFC Secure Elements

Published: Jun 1 2011
By: 
Dan Balaban

Germany-based chip maker Infineon Technologies has no plans to join its rivals in producing NFC chips–instead focusing on secure elements that can store payment and other applications in NFC phones.

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Headline News

Samsung to Embed Secure Element in Galaxy S III, Other NFC Phones

Published: May 14 2012
May 14 2012 (All day)

Samsung Electronics and NXP Semiconductors have confirmed that Samsung’s next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III, will sport an embedded secure chip, in addition to supporting applications on SIM cards.

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American Express Onboard for Isis Two-City Launch

Published: May 11 2012

American Express and Isis have announced that AmEx plans to participate in the two large NFC pilots Isis plans to launch this summer in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Austin, Texas.

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HTC Steps Up NFC Phone Presence with Three High-End Handsets

Published: May 9 2012
May 10 2012 (All day)

New Orleans – Phone maker HTC is displaying three high-end NFC phones at the International CTIA Wireless show in New Orleans, including its Droid Incredible 4G LTE, destined for U.S.

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MasterCard Unveils Wallet Offer; Expands PayPass Name to Online Transactions

Published: May 7 2012

NEW ORLEANS – MasterCard today announced its answer to Visa’s digital wallet and other wallets planned by competitors, introducing its PayPass Wallet Services.

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MasterCard Announces NFC Device Certifications; New NFC Mark

Published: May 4 2012
May 9 2012 (All day)

MasterCard has announced certifications for 17 NFC phones as well as its own mark that handset makers could display on device packaging, advertisements or even on the devices themselves, showing the phone is able to do contactless payments with MasterCard PayPass.

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Samsung Unveils Galaxy S III, Supporting NFC Payments and Enhanced P2P

Published: May 3 2012
May 4 2012 (All day)

Samsung Electronics has introduced its much-anticipated Galaxy S III, which, as expected, will support NFC for mobile payment, along with an enhanced version of Google’s Android Beam peer-to-peer pairing-and-sharing feature.

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Barnes & Noble First E-Reader Seller to Disclose Plans for NFC Support

Published: May 2 2012

In a first for an e-reader seller, the CEO of bookstore chain Barnes & Noble said the company plans to include NFC chips in its Nook e-readers, which he said could make the connection between the devices and the company’s physical stores.

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Airline to Introduce NFC App Following Successful Sticker Launch

Published: May 1 2012
May 3 2012 (All day)

Scandinavian Airlines plans to introduce an NFC application for frequent flyers as early as this summer, enabling those with Android NFC phones to tap for a faster flow through check-in, security screening and boarding.

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Report: Google and PayPal Challenge UK Joint Venture Plans

Published: Apr 30 2012

Google and PayPal have reportedly expressed concerns to European antitrust regulators, saying they fear that if major UK mobile operators are allowed to form their proposed NFC mobile-commerce joint venture, they would have too much power to control secure elements in NFC phones, the Financial Times reported Sunday.

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Telefónica UK Launches O2 Wallet; Promises NFC Later in 2012

Published: Apr 26 2012

Telefónica UK, known as O2, launched its long anticipated O2 Wallet today, offering text-based money transfers and online product searches and purchasing, but no NFC yet.

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Wentker Departs Visa; Bains Leaves GSM Association

Published: Apr 25 2012

Dave Wentker, considered the No. 2 man in Visa Inc.’s mobile-payment unit and a former vice chairman of the NFC Forum, has left the payment network after more than 15 years, NFC Times has learned.

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Oberthur Gets Telco Group TSM Contract but Loses Key French Bank

Published: Apr 25 2012

France-based Oberthur Technologies has won a key contract to serve as trusted service manager for France Telecom-Orange group, but lost a TSM contract with big French bank BNP Paribas, NFC Times has learned.

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Worldwide Project Database

Wellington

New Zealand: Transit Fare-Collection Operator and Telco Launch NFC...
Transit fare-collection operator Snapper has put its application onto SIM cards issued by mobile operator 2degrees, enabling riders to tap...

Vienna

Austria: Telco to Launch NFC Payment Scheme, Bypassing Major Banks,...
A1, Austria’s largest mobile operator and part of the Telekom Austria Group, is launching

NYC, N. Calif., LA, Boston, Md., Wash., D.C., Dallas, Austin, S. Florida

U.S.: NFC-Enabled Magazine Print Ad Lets Users ‘Test Drive’ Dashboard...
A print advertisement for the 2013 Lexus GS luxury car in Wired magazine’s April edition sent to subscribers in several major metropolitan...

Malaysia

Malaysia: Telco Plans to Launch iPhone-Based Fare Payment
Maxis subscribers with iPhones will be able to tap to pay fares, tolls and some retail purchases wi

Madrid

Spain: NFC Trial Supports Both PayPass and payWave
The employee trial is among the first held anywhere offering users the option to download either a Visa or MasterCard contactless credit or...

Doha

Qatar: Bank and Telco Trial PayPass, with Plans for Expansion
Trial participants can tap to pay with a MasterCard PayPass application issued by Qatar National Bank that is preloaded on Qtel SIM cards...

Milan and Turin

Italy: Large Italian Bank Distributes NFC Phones for SIM-based NFC...
Large Italian bank, Intesa Sanpaolo is distributing 600 Samsung Wave 578 NFC phones to customers, employees and students at universities in...

Austria

Austria: Bank Plans Launch of payWave on microSDs and iPhone Sleeves
Raiffeisen Bank International is putting a Visa debit application onto microSD cards that

Taipei

Taiwan: Attachment Enables iphone 4 with NFC for transit and retail...
Taiwan’s largest mobile operator, Chunghwa Telecom, designed the sleeve for Apple’s iPhone 4 and 4S with an NFC chip and embedded secure...

Tokyo, Chiba

Japan: No. 2 Telco in Japan to Sell First Standard NFC Phones
Japan’s No. 2 mobile operator, KDDI, plans to sell the first standard NFC phone in Japan, an NFC version of Samsung’s popular Galaxy S II...

Istanbul, other cities

Turkey: Turkcell Continues Rollout of NFC Services with More Banks,...
Turkcell’s mobile wallet enables subscribers to tap their phones to pay for purchases with a MasterCard PayPass application issued by...

Berlin and Frankfurt

Germany: Bank Plans Employee Trial with iPhone and microSDs
A limited number of Landesbank Berlin and Visa Europe employees in Berlin and Frankfurt, respectively,

Johannesburg, Cape Town

South Africa: Bank Uses microSDs for Mobile-Payment Trial
About 500 microSDs distributed to employees for the trial will store a MasterCard PayPass “prepaid debit” application that can be tapped at...

Auckland, Wellington

New Zealand: Vodafone and Bank Launch Employee Trial with Galaxy S II
The trial, scheduled to last three months, will enable a combined 44 employees from Vodafone an

Caen

France: Visa Europe to Launch Another microSD Trial in NFC Demo City
About 200 bank customers and employees will be able to tap their iPhones with a contactless attachment case and microSD cards to pay where...
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Features Section

NFC Marks Multiply as Doubts Persist over NFC Forum Touchpoint Icon

Published: Apr 25 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban

Even as the NFC Forum attempts to broaden the reach of its NFC touchpoint symbol, known as the N-Mark, rival marks are surfacing, threatening to present consumers with a fragmented array of NFC icons as the technology rolls out.

Read more »
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Printer of NFC Lexus Ad: Other Advertisers Interested, Though Waiting for Apple

Published: Apr 11 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban

Despite the added costs, NFC is attracting interest among advertisers of print publications, according to the large printing house that produced a high-profile magazine ad for luxury car brand Lexus.

Read more »
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Some Banks Continue to Look for Alternatives to SIM-based NFC

Published: Feb 13 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban

While mobile operators continue to push for the SIM card to become the de facto secure element in NFC phones, some banks and other service providers are still seeking alternatives.

Read more »
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South Korea Takes Lead Globally in NFC Rollouts with Millions of Phones and SIMs

Published: Jan 12 2012
By: 
Dan Balaban

While mobile operators in most other countries are still struggling to roll out even scant volumes of NFC phones that can do payment, ticketing and other applications, South Korea’s telcos have already crossed the 5 million-phone mark–including NFC versions of such high-profile devices as the Samsung Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note.

Read more »
TAGS:

The Year Ahead for NFC: Major M-Commerce Rollouts Unlikely Until 2013

Published: Dec 23 2011
By: 
Dan Balaban

2012 was going to be the year that the new era of NFC-based mobile commerce had finally arrived–with Google Wallet rolling out widely, mobile operators in the U.S. and Europe making significant inroads with their own mobile wallets and big Asian m-commerce players generally commercializing NFC, as well.

Read more »
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Maker of Rugged Phones Enters NFC Market; is Its Price Right?

Published: Sep 23 2011
By: 
Dan Balaban

Sonim Technologies, the maker of rugged work phones, has introduced its first NFC-enabled handset, betting that cleaning companies, security guard firms and home-health care agencies are ready for a more durable–and higher-priced–NFC phone for workforce management.

Read more »
TAGS:

UK Contactless to Reach a Tipping Point in 2011?

Published: Jul 28 2011
By: 
Dan Balaban

Contactless payment continues to grow rapidly in the United Kingdom, but transaction volume is still low, and it remains open to debate whether 2011 will be a tipping point for the technology.

Read more »
TAGS:

Report: Vast Majority of Consumers Will Need Push to Use NFC Payment

Published: Jul 6 2011
By: 
Dan Balaban

Fewer than 2% of consumers are “highly likely” to adopt NFC payments immediately after the technology is rolled out, according to UK-based research firm Datamonitor.

Read more »
TAGS:

Analysis: Quick Tap Launches Fast but Expect Slow Take-up

Published: Jun 9 2011
By: 
Dan Balaban

Mobile operator Orange UK and payment issuer Barclaycard face challenges as they seek to get their “Quick Tap” service off the ground, say UK analysts.

Read more »
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Infineon to Focus on Market for NFC Secure Elements

Published: Jun 1 2011
By: 
Dan Balaban

Germany-based chip maker Infineon Technologies has no plans to join its rivals in producing NFC chips–instead focusing on secure elements that can store payment and other applications in NFC phones.

Read more »
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