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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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NFC And Contactless Mobile Projects

Taipei

Taiwan: Far EasTone Pay-Buy Mobile Trial Delayed
One of the GSM Association Pay-Buy Mobile projects, the application was preloaded on the SIM and would have supported an early version of...

Shanghai

China: NFC Vs. RF-SIM: Unicom and Unicom Take on China Mobile
Users will be able tap standard NFC phones at merchant terminals in the Expo 2010 park and elsewhere in Shanghai for low-value payments...

Dubai

UAE: Telco-Bank Partnership Tests Waters for Possible NFC Launch
Trial organizers are drawing participants for the trial from Dubai First Platinum MasterCard card customers, which carry the PayPass...

Paris

France: Bouygues Tries NFC Transit in Paris
The three-month trial was the first for Bouygues and followed a three-month internal trial with the same transit operator.

Bangkok

Thailand: Bank Launches Mobile payWave Trial
The trial enabled users to tap their Nokia 6212 phones on about 1,000 point-of-sale terminals that accept Visa’s contactless application...

Tromsø

Norway: Arctic Trial Tests Mifare DESFire on Buses
Only about 2,000 kilometers from the North Pole, Tromsø, site of the trial, is probably the farthest north any NFC phone has ever been...

Tokyo

Japan: Softbank With MasterCard Hold Rare NFC Project In Japan
This NFC trial–which used standard ISO 14443 contactless technology–was necessarily going to be small.
Japan: KDDI to Launch Multiapp NFC Trial in 'FeliCa Country'
In it’s planned eight-month trial, Japan’s No. 2 mobile operator, KDDI, has announced it plans to offer a range of services to trial...

Caen

France: Dual-City Payez-Mobile Trial Tests Interoperability (Caen)
Pivotal NFC retail payment trial, along with companion trial in Alsatian city of Strasbourg, involving seven major French banks, three...

Strasbourg

France: Dual-City Payez-Mobile Trial Tests Interoperability (Strasbourg)
Pivotal NFC retail payment trial along with companion trial in Norman city of Caen, involving seven major French banks, three major mobile...