Google has begun selling unlocked Galaxy Nexus smart phones in the Google Play store, the company has announced via its Commerce Blog. The $399 NFC-enabled smart phone will come preloaded with the Google Wallet mobile payments app and $10 of free credit to get users tapping and paying at a number of participating retailers nationwide. […]

Austrian mobile operator A1, a subsidiary of Telekom Austria Group, has teamed up with PayBox Bank to trial NFC mobile payments at select McDonald’s restaurants and Merkur supermarkets. From now until summer, up to 5,000 customers will be able to use the partners’ “Paybox NFC” solution to make contactless mobile transactions up to €25 without […]

Market research firm Yankee Group is remaining confident in NFC technology, despite a recent survey showing 35% believe it will be made obsolete by other new payment technologies. According to Fierce Mobile, a further 23% in the same survey believe that NFC is too cumbersome and expensive for merchants to implement. So why does Yankee […]

Samsung is looking to use NFC-enabled mobile access credentials in place of ID cards for workers at its Suwon, South Korea offices. According to The Verge, the new system would enable Samsung employees to tap their phones against a reader to access their building and other secure areas, rather than present a traditional ID card. […]

CVS/pharmacy is looking to bring its ExtraCare loyalty rewards system to smart phones, according to the Chain Drug Review. The pharmacy chain has a mobile app in the works that will allow CVS customers to store their ExtraCare card information on their smart phones, enabling them to collect and redeem rewards by presenting their phone […]

Facebook has acquired Tagtile, a San Francisco based start-up that offers an NFC-enabled mobile marketing and loyalty rewards service for small businesses and merchants. Purchased for an undisclosed sum, Tagtile provides merchants with POS hardware, i.e. the Tagtile Cube, that customers can tap with their NFC phone to earn rewards points. Merchants can also use […]

VeriFone Systems has received certification of its EMV/NFC-enabled payment processing solution from Vantiv, a provider of payment processing services and related technology solutions for U.S. merchants and financial institutions. The two companies have cooperated on certification of the VeriFone Evolution payment platform for EMV payments. According to VeriFone, each device in the VX Evolution family […]

The NFC Forum has appointed TÜV SÜD Product Service to provide its Radio Frequency (RF) Analogue Test Tool Validation Service. TÜV SÜD, a global provider of product testing and certification, will validate all RF Analogue test tools used as part of the NFC Forum Certification Program for testing the RF Layer of the communications stack […]

Bank customers are responsible for detecting fraud 82% of the time, according to Information Security Media Group’s 2012 Faces of Fraud Survey. Banks responding to the survey reported that the three leading causes of fraud they experienced were card-not-present – 56% – data breach at a retailer or processor – 53% – and point-of-sales skimming […]

Dutch RFID inlay maker Smartrac has announced the availability of its new Midas NFC tag. Designed to link small objects with cloud services, Midas tags can be attached to electronics and various other accessories allowing for a unique identification of the object while at the same time granting access to a range of services and […]