I like to see when banks start to get involved and concerned about new technology. It’s a sure sign that NFC technology may eventually become mainstream. This news update come to us from American Banker and Source Media’s Will Hernandez . As Always- Read it. Enjoy it. Share it… Mobile-payment proponents let out a collective sigh when [...]
Google has launched its first version of the Google Wallet app to Sprint, a significant step in the implementation of near field communication (NFC) technology. With NFC, users can simply pay for goods by waving their NFC phone in front of a contactless payment scanner. In other words, NFC allows for simplified transactions, data exchange, [...]
By Sarah Clark | September 6th, 2011 @ NFCWorld.com The nurses use their NFC phones to track and manage home healthcare visits, in one of the world’s longest established commercial NFC services. NEDAP: Home health care tracking solution is one of the earliest commercial NFC systems More than 50,000 care workers in the Netherlands are [...]
By Sarah Clark Reporting for NFCWorld.com Google has been field testing its NFC payments service with a large group of users since late May and, from later this summer, anyone with a Nexus S 4G and a Sprint contract will be able to use their phone to make mobile payments at merchants that accept MasterCard [...]
Written by Gareth Halfacree on 29 August, 2011 Reported at NFCNews.com In a desperate attempt to rekindle interest in its products and to avoid becoming just another Windows Phone box-shifter, Nokia has announced that it will be including NFC technology in all its future products. NFC – Near Field Communications – chips allow short-range two-way [...]
Enterprising developers have come up with a ‘LikeBelt’, an NFC-enabled belt buckle that can register Facebook ‘likes’ or check-ins with a thrust of the wearer’s hips. The humorous concept, essentially a Nexus S handset with…
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And now for something completely different.
Pittsburgh-based design studio Deeplocal has developed an NFC-enabled belt that lets the wearer “like” things on Facebook much in the same way that a dog “likes” your leg.
No, this isn’t something out of The Onion. According to Wired, those who don the LikeBelt can interact with NFC chips in the real world by giving them a not-so-discreet hip thrust. The belt, which contains an NFC antenna in the buckle, reads the NFC tag and automatically connects to the wearer’s Facebook profile to “like” the corresponding item.
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OpenWays has announced the launch of its “Mobile Key Dual with Pure NFC” hotel check-in and room access solution at Nordic Choice Hotels in Stockholm, Sweden.
Developed in partnership with Nokia and NXP, the solution enables hotel guests to use their mobile phones to check in remotely to their hotel and open the the door to their room via NFC.
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The John Natsoulas Center for the Arts in Davis, Calif. is using NFC technology to provide resident with a unique art viewing experience.
The JNCA has teamed up with XtremeSignPost founder Monto H. Kumagai to embed sculptures from renowned artist Finely Fryer with NFC tags. On Feb. 17, ten of these sculptures will be unveiled throughout downtown Davis, enabling residents with NFC-enabled phones to receive audio information about each work of art with a simple tap.
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German B2B social network Xing has added support for NFC, allowing members to add new contacts to their network by simply tapping together their mobile phones. Xing is using the Android Beam peer-to-peer functionality included in Android…
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Contactless technology is rapidly growing in adoption for all types of payment and ticketing systems. According to Eurosmart, 630 million secure contactless cards were shipped in 2008 alone and we have seen the number of trials for near field communication (NFC) products grown exponentially since the late 2000s.
When it comes to NFC-capable devices, ABI Research estimates that nearly 35 million NFC enabled handsets shipped in 2011, and nearly double that number will find their way to market in 2012.
Credit card companies are starting to issue contactless products and major cities are rolling out contactless mass transit cards. Governments safely use contactless technology to secure passports and other ID documents for citizens, while corporations provide employees with contactless cards to secure access to facilities, networks and more.
Read the full article at NFCNews…
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4T Sverige, the Swedish mobile payments joint venture, selected PayEx and Accumulate as the payment and security vendors for its mobile payment platform, and said its solution will also support near-field communications (NFC) when such contactless payment services are available in Sweden. The venture said its joint mobile wallet service will launch before the summer.
Swedish operators Telia, Tele2, Telenor and 3 announced the formation of T4 in November, joining the ranks of other countries such as the UK, France and Germany where mobile operators are already collaborating on the provision of joint mobile payment service platforms.
4T said the service based on technology and services from Swedish financial services company PayEx and Swedish mobile banking and payments provider Accumulate will be available to 97 per cent of Swedish mobile subscribers and all handsets produced after 2006, 4T also said the service will be applicable to all payment situations right from the stat, ranging from online payments to M2M applications such as vending machines and parking meters. The service brand will be revealed closer to the launch in the summer.
The 4T venture is stressing the open nature of the platform, noting that the service will be the same from all operators and will provide end users with a consistent experience regardless of which operator is used.
“The Swedish operators have the opportunity and the will to be part of setting a new and open standard for mobile payments that combine security, ease of use and flexibility in a cost effective way,” Accumulate CEO Stefan Hultberg said in a statement.
With regard to NFC developments in Sweden, NFCNews reported in December that PayPal launched its first-ever pilot of NFC retail payments in Sweden over the holiday period. The company partnered with Accumulate to deliver PayPal Instore, a new mobile payments app for Apple’s iPhone and Android smartphones.
For more:
- see this press release
- see this NFC World article
- see this NFCNews article
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Semiconductor maker Melexis has launched an NFC transceiver chip designed and rated for use in the automotive market. The MLX90132 Transceiver IC comes as a 5x5mm QFN package and is expected to be used in…
Read the rest of Melexis puts NFC in cars at NFC World.
Market research firm Deloitte has released its predictions for the telecoms sector in 2012, which include a few caveats regarding NFC payments.
According to Deloitte, many people are still uncomfortable with the idea of paying with their phones due to concerns over security and the battery draining aspects of NFC – a perception service providers are going to have to overcome before widespread adoption can happen.
Read the full article at NFCNews…
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Swedish mobile operators Telia, Tele2, Telenor and 3 have formed a joint venture to offer a unified mobile wallet service. Operating under the name “4T,” the partners plan to deliver a mobile payments service that can be used on all handsets regardless of the cellular network.
Based on technology from Accumulate and PayEx, the service will offer mobile payments at the point of sale, online, peer-to-peer transactions, and man-to-machine (M2M) payments for vending machines and parking meters. The service is also configured to support NFC when the technology becomes available.
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