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BlackBerry phone maker Research In Motion plans to enable enterprises to store their corporate badges and other access-control and ID applications on embedded chips in its NFC phones.

Research in Motion has launched a new Blackberry handset with built-in NFC support, part of its lower-end Curve series. It not yet clear which telcos will introduce NFC services with the phone and when, however.

Research in Motion today confirmed shipping dates for its first NFC-enabled phones, the Bold 9900 and closely related 9930 models, which RIM said would begin to become available from mobile carriers worldwide later this month.

Inside Secure CEO Rémy de Tonnac said the chip supplier’s decision to postpone its planned initial public offering was based solely on the financial crisis in Greece and the uncertainty it is creating on world markets.

France-based NFC chip supplier Inside Secure took its first official step toward an initial public offering, filing registration papers with French regulators for its planned listing on the NYSE Euronext exchange in Paris later this year.

Research in Motion, as expected, has announced its first two NFC-enabled BlackBerrys, as it kicks off its BlackBerry World conference scheduled for this week in Orlando, Fla.

Research in Motion is continuing to decline comment on its plans for embedded secure chips in its forthcoming BlackBerry NFC phones.

Research in Motion’s managing director for the United Kingdom has reportedly said that "virtually all" of the company’s BlackBerry devices will support NFC technology.

Major NFC chip makers predict 40 million to 50 million NFC phones or more will be on the market by the end of 2011, along with a smaller number of NFC bridge devices.