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UK Taxis Get NFC Tags for Promo Campaign; NFC Dynamic Screens to Play at French Sporting Event

Published: May 23 2013

Samsung Electronics, along with Australia-based NFC marketing firm Tapit, UK-based out-of-home advertising company Chiel and terminal vendor VeriFone are rolling out NFC stickers to 80 taxis in the UK, as part of a promotional campaign for musician Robbie Williams’ upcoming Samsung-sponsored tour.

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OTI to Supply Contactless and NFC Readers for Gasoline Stations in North America

Published: May 21 2013

Israel-based contactless and NFC vendor On Track Innovations announced Monday it had received an order for 30,000 readers for point-of-sale terminals at retail gasoline stations in North America.

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Taxis in Major U.S. Cities to Get NFC-Enabled Video Ads

Published: May 16 2013

Riders in 5,000 taxicabs in the U.S. would be able to tap on NFC tags on video advertising screens to download apps, brand information, coupons, maps, music and videos, according to technology suppliers that have equipped the taxis for potential advertising campaigns.

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Analyst: Banks Have More to Fear from Cloud-Based Technologies Than NFC

Published: May 13 2013

Banks have much more to fear from cloud-based mobile payment than from NFC, even if mobile operators control the secure elements that hold the banks’ payment applications.

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GSMA Proposes Global Standard for NFC-Enabled Loyalty and Couponing–Using SIM Cards

Published: May 9 2013
May 10 2013 (All day)

The GSMA mobile operator trade group is proposing a global standard for how point-of-sale terminals talk to NFC-enabled mobile wallets to enable consumers to redeem coupons and rewards.

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Taiwanese Bank Gets Approval for NFC-Enabled Credit Cards; Okay for Other Banks Expected

Published: May 9 2013

Taiwanese banking regulators, as expected, have approved the first bank to issue mobile credit cards that could be downloaded over the air to SIM cards.

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UK Retailer Marks & Spencer Sees Growing Use of Contactless

Published: May 7 2013

Marks & Spencer, one of the UK’s largest retailers, announced today it had rolled out contactless payment to 644 of its UK stores and said 14% of its card transactions under £20 (US$30.97) are contactless.

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Identive Reports Growing NFC Business; Blames Flat Sales, Losses, on U.S. Budget Cuts

Published: May 3 2013

U.S.-based Identive Group reported growing NFC and smart card reader business, but fell back into the red during for the first quarter, a loss it largely blamed on U.S. federal government budget cuts.

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German Bank and Telco Hold Small NFC Trial; Larger Launches Planned in Country This Year

Published: May 2 2013

As Germany gears up for NFC, German bank Dortmunder Volksbank along with Telefónica (O2) Germany have launched a small pilot putting a credit application onto SIM cards in Western Germany.

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Cashless Technology Company Announces Rollout of Isis SmartTap on Vending Machines

Published: May 1 2013

Vending technology company USA Technologies plans to integrate the SmartTap mobile-commerce software into all of the company’s nearly 100,000 NFC-enabled terminals on vending machines nationwide.

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Infineon Introduces New Embedded Secure Element, Hoping to Tap Growing Market

Published: Apr 30 2013

Germany-based Infineon Technologies today introduced a new embedded secure element, targeting the growing market for chips that handset makers are including in their NFC-enabled devices.

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Vendor Group: NFC Secure Element Market to Grow by Two-Thirds This Year

Published: Apr 29 2013

Smart card vendor association Eurosmart has substantially increased its estimate for NFC secure element shipments for 2012–by 50% to 150 million units–and forecasts that secure element shipments will grow by another 67% in 2013 to 250 million units.

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Blogs

Affordable NFC Phones Coming to Market

Published: Sep 9 2011

The story of NFC handsets for 2011 is shaping up to be one of lower-cost phones.

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Motorola Gives Google Chance to Control More Secure Elements

Published: Aug 16 2011

Google’s planned acquisition of Motorola’s mobile phone business not only gives the Web giant control of a major handset manufacturer, it also offers Google a way to control the secure chips in more NFC phones.

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Lower NFC Phone Shipments Show NXP and Google Got Carried Away

Published: Aug 8 2011

The slashing by Netherlands-based chip maker NXP Semiconductors of its NFC phone forecast for 2011 demonstrates just how complex the business case for NFC rollouts can be.

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Telcos Close Ranks as Google Threat Looms

Published: Jul 8 2011

In just the past few weeks, major mobile operators in the United Kingdom and Denmark have announced joint ventures to roll out NFC services.

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With Launch of Google Wallet, the Wallet War Begins

Published: Jun 2 2011

Google has unveiled its much anticipated NFC mobile wallet and, as expected, we learned that it is much more than just an app for Android phones.

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Make No Mistake–Card Emulation is Coming Soon

Published: May 16 2011

We’ve been told recently by some big NFC players that the industry is focusing too much on applications that use card emulation, that is, those that enable the phone to act like a contactless card to do payment, ticketing and access control.

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Inside Secure: Ripe for an IPO

Published: Apr 28 2011

Not much information has been escaping Inside Secure’s headquarters in Aix-en-Provence, France, the past few weeks.

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Big U.S. Banks Look for A Business Case for NFC

Published: Mar 29 2011

How do the big U.S. banks view the prospect for payments moving to mobile phones? Their recent discussions with a group of large merchants are illuminating, but perhaps not so surprising.

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Google Gears Up for NFC M-Commerce; Wallet War Ahead?

Published: Mar 11 2011

As Google’s outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt put it at last month’s Mobile World Congress, NFC combined with smartphones represents a "mega-scale opportunity" and promises to "revolutionize" electronic commerce and payments.

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The ‘NFC World Congress’? Not Quite, but the Buzz is Back

Published: Feb 21 2011

Some were calling it the "NFC World Congress" last week in Barcelona, but when all was said and done, handset makers announced just two NFC-enabled models at the huge Mobile World Congress trade show. 

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