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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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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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Gemalto Reveals Some Details of MCX Deal; Vendor Will Earn Fees for Transactions

Published: Apr 25 2013

France-based smart card and security vendor Gemalto will operate the mobile-payment platform for U.S. merchant group MCX, earning a fee for every transaction, in addition to what appears to be a hosting fee it says is worth tens of millions.

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Inside Reports NFC Revenue Down Sharply in First Quarter; Some Recovery Expected in Q2

Published: Apr 25 2013

France-based chip supplier Inside Secure today reported a sharp decline in its revenue in the first quarter from its NFC chips, blaming the situation on excess inventories of NFC chips on hand by its main customer BlackBerry.

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Australian Supermarket Chain Sees Fast Take-Up of Contactless Payment

Published: Apr 25 2013

More than half of credit card transactions at Australian supermarket chain Coles are contactless, and the merchant hit the milestone just over six months after rolling out contactless terminals across its more than 700 supermarkets.

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RIM Announces Two New NFC-Enabled BlackBerrys

Published: Nov 16 2011

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Dan Balaban

Research in Motion has introduced two new NFC-enabled BlackBerry models, the Bold 9790 and Curve 9380, which the handset maker said would be released in coming weeks in various countries.

RIM indicated in its press announcement today that NFC in the new devices would enable mobile payments, pairing of accessories and reading smart-poster tags.

Both phones run the latest BlackBerry 7 operating system, which offers native support for NFC, provided there are NFC chips in the devices. The two new phones will support an embedded secure element for payment and other applications, along with support for the single-wire protocol standard, enabling applications to be stored on the SIM.

The latest version of BlackBerry 7 includes the BlackBerry Tag feature, which promotes NFC’s peer-to-peer communication mode. This lets users to tap NFC-enabled BlackBerrys together to share contact information, documents, URLs, photos and other content, RIM noted last month. And users will be able to tap their phones to add one another as contacts for RIM’s instant messaging service, BlackBerry Messenger.

The two new models add to two other sets of NFC-enabled Bold and lower-end Curve models that RIM has already released: the related Bold 9900 and 9930, and Curve 9350, 9360 and 9370. RIM announced in late October that two of those BlackBerrys, the Bold 9900 and Curve 9360 were the first NFC-enabled smartphones that MasterCard has certified for PayPass running on SIM cards.

RIM hopes that NFC among other enhancements in its new operating system will help it at least slow its slide against smartphones from Apple and Android handset makers.

With the Bold 9790 and the Curve 9380, RIM is tied with Nokia for the most NFC-enabled smartphones either announced or shipping–at seven. That counts the closely related Curve 9350, 9360 and 9370 and almost identical Bold 9900 and 9930 as separate models.

Nokia has launched Symbian-based NFC phones, the C7, 600, 700, 701, Oro and 603, along with the N9 MeeGo.

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