Awareness of NFC mobile payments is on the rise in the UK, according to YouGov’s new Mobile Wallet tracking study. Over a third (36%) of the UK population is now aware of “contactless technology in mobile payments,” while 12% are aware of the existence of NFC technology. However, despite the recent launches of Barclay’s Pingit, […]

Google is now shipping 1 million NFC-enabled Android devices each week, according to Hugo Barra, Google’s director of Android product management. Barra revealed the figure during his keynote address at Google I/O, the company’s annual developer-focused conference held in San Francisco. By Tech Crunch’s reckoning, this means that nearly 15% of the 400 million Android […]

Deutsche Telekom and MasterCard have announced a partnership to enable Deutsche Telekom’s 93 million mobile customers across Europe to make NFC mobile payments. The first consumer roll out will take place in Poland later this year, followed by Germany. The trial will initially involve mobile phone tags and cards, then move on to a mobile […]

FIME has announced the opening of its NFC mobile test laboratory in Seoul, South Korea. According to FIME, the new lab will enable it to provide integration testing and certification services to Korean mobile device manufacturers and network operators, thus ensuring that their NFC-enabled handsets are fully interoperable and compliant with industry standards and EMV […]

Seventy-five percent of mobile industry executives think the launch of a rumored NFC-enabled iPhone will cause a surge in NFC adoption, according to new research from M for Mobile. M for Mobile’s “Mobile Payments Report 2012-2013” contends that 2012 will prove to be the tipping point year for NFC mobile payments entering into the mainstream. […]

Google has introduced a new “Save to Wallet” API that enables customers to save offers directly from a merchant’s website into their Google Wallet app with the click of a button. According to Google, customer can redeem saved coupons by either tapping their phone against an NFC reader at the point of sale or by […]

Sweden’s four major telecos, Telia, Tele2, Telenor and 3 have officially launched their WyWallet mobile wallet service. The first service of its kind in Sweden, WyWallet covers 97% of the country’s mobile users, enabling them to perform person-to-person money transfers and make payments for SMS-services like public transport, ticketing and voting, as well as shop […]

GlobalPlatform and the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) have formed a joint work group that will collaborate on mobile device industry standards. According to GlobalPlatform, the work group will focus primarily on security topics, including the TCG Trusted Platform Module Mobile (TPM Mobile), a security component for mobile devices that secures root secrets and immutable data, […]

Orange, France’s largest mobile operator, has partnered with Gemalto to roll out NFC-enabled SIM cards nationwide. Acccording to Orange, the wide-scale deployment of Gemalto’s UpTeq NFC SIMs will enable service providers, such as banks, transport operators and retailers, to deploy mobile contactless services on a massive, nationwide scale. Orange will offer service providers a secure […]

NXP Semiconductors has announced that the newly launched Google Nexus 7 tablet will feature its PN65 NFC solution. Comprising an NFC radio controller and an embedded Secure Element, the PN65 supports full NFC functionality, enabling the Nexus 7 to perform content sharing via Android Beam and Bluetooth pairing with a simple tap. The PN65’s embedded […]