Digital Cinema Media (DCM) is teaming up with outdoor media provider Primesight to install 100 NFC-enabled advertising posters in Cineworld, Odeon and Vue cinemas across the UK. The six-sheet advertising panels feature embedded NFC technology that enable NFC phone users to tap their handsets to receive digital content, such as ads and tailored messages. The […]

Israel Credit Cards-Cal (ICC), Israel’s third largest credit card company with 1.45 million active credit cards, and mobile carrier Cellcom Israel have signed a letter of intent to jointly develop an NFC-enabled mobile wallet service. The partners will establish a “customers club” for Cellcom subscribers, whose members will receive a mobile version of an ICC […]

Elecom, a Japan-based provider of PC accessories, has announced that it will begin selling an NFC-enabled keyboard. Developed alongside Norway’s One2Touch, the keyboard features a gap in the middle where the user can place an NFC-enabled Android handset. The phone automatically connects with the keyboard via NFC, allowing the user to type on the keyboard […]

Narian Technologies launched NFC Paging, a solution designed to streamline customers service using NFC tags and mobile phones. Under the NFC Paging system, a customer entering a shop or restaurant taps their NFC phone against an NFC tag. This automatically pages the store’s employees to attend to the customer. Once the customer is reached, the […]

Starbucks Coffee Company announced a partnership with Square to provide mobile payments in some 7,000 coffee houses nationwide. Starting this fall, customers will be able to use Pay with Square, Square’s mobile payment app for iPhone and Android, at participating U.S. Starbucks stores, as well as find nearby Starbucks locations within the Square Directory. Pay […]

ViVOtech has completed the sale of its reader assets, technologies, and ViVOpay trademark to ID Tech, a Cypress, Calif.-based provider of reader technology for ID and access control solutions. The acquisitions include ViVOpay’s contactless/NFC point of sale readers, self-service kiosk and vending applications. ID Tech says these solutions will complement their existing product portfolio and […]

New research from TNS MENA shows demand for mobile wallet services rising in the Middle East and Asia, while the West lags behind, reports Khaleej Times. According to TNS MENA, consumers around the globe are warming to the idea of using their handsets for NFC payments and mobile banking services – particularly in Asia, which […]

Westpac, one of Australia’s four major banks, has announced a partnership with MasterCard to pilot a new NFC payments application for Android phones. The pilot will see Samsung Galaxy S III handsets equipped with special SIM cards containing an embedded secure element. Using a virtual Debit MasterCard stored in the secure element, pilot participants will […]

Fifty-eight percent of UK smart phone owners are unlikely to “swipe” their handsets, i.e. use NFC, to make credit card payments, according to a recent survey from YouGov and Firstsource Solutions. Of the 58% who indicated they would not use NFC payments, 67% said that they feared their banking information would not be secure over […]

Infineon Technologies has announced the release of an NFC tag application developer kit for the North American market. According to Infineon, smart phone app developers can use the kit to design and test information exchange applications based on NFC Forum Type 2 Tag technology. “One key category of applications for NFC technology is based on […]