Proxama announced a partnership with London-based marketing agency Experience Worldwide that will provide the NFC platform used in a UK-wide marketing campaign for BlackBerry’s new Z10 phone. BlackBerry’s field marketing campaign will span 14 shopping centers throughout the UK and will begin in London and Cardiff. The campaign boasts an NFC-powered element that invites existing […]

Brazil is launching Gemalto’s TSM solution for mobile NFC payment program with UpTeq NFC SIM and AllynisTrusted Services Management (TSM). Gemalto is partnering with TIM Brasil, a mobile operator with 70 million subscribers and Banco Itaú, one of the world’s largest banks to bring secure NFC mobile payments. Gemalto’s TSM platform will be at the […]

Stollmann and COMPRION have partnered to automate the NFC Forum’s device test application. Automation of the test application will help to reduce overall test time and error-prone activities associated with the Forum’s digital test cases. Testing specific protocol or application behavior is often necessary to trigger certain communication patterns. When testing NFC, the Device Test […]

Oberthur Technologies announced MasterCard Certification for its PEARL Secure Element (SE) 800k Classic. PEARL — an NFC embedded SE — is capable of supporting secure NFC payment applications at the highest level. The PEARL 800k Classic is a multi-application embedded secure element that aligns with both Global Platform 2.2 and JavaCard 3.0 specifications. Boasting a […]

The upcoming CARTES America Conference will discuss the opportunities and barriers to NFC adoption, how to manage a complex ecosystem as well as address security concerns and consumer education. The conference will be held in Las Vegas from April 23- 25. The first two days of the conference will feature NFC sessions addressing all six […]

The Australia-based supermarket chain Coles has announced that it will trial a mobile payments app that will enable Coles MasterCard customers to pay for their groceries using NFC-enabled smartphones. TechWorld reports the trial is scheduled to run for three months, with Coles representatives revealing that the app could be available to the public within the […]

INSIDE Secure has launched its ComboPulse NFC system-in-package (SiP) solution. ComboPulse is a solution that makes adding NFC functionality to a broad range of mainstream consumer electronic products easy and inexpensive. ComboPulse has the ability to bring NFC to tablets, entry-level mobile phones, personal media players and other smart mobile devices. The ComboPulse SiP requires […]

Samsung has reached an agreement with The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, placing Samsung-branded NFC stickers in all 51 Singapore locations. TechCrunch reports that the marketing campaign — which began on February 8 and will run through March 7 — will reward Samsung device users with an larger drink just for tapping the NFC stickers. […]

As part of an experiment to help guide Japanese shoppers government officials in Tokyo have dispatched nearly 300 NFC location tags throughout the Ginza shopping district as well as launched an Android app enabling customers to interact with the tags. As reported by CIO.com, the Ginza initiative is the latest in a line of city-based […]

Marble Security has announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent entitled “Enterprise Device Policy Management” to Marble Security. Originally filed in 2009 by Marble Security co-founder and CTO Dave Jevans, the patent was officially issued on Jan. 15. The patent provides a method for managing the policies and security of […]