Gartner has identified NFC payments as one of the fastest moving technologies in its 2012 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle, an annual research report that assesses the maturity, business benefit and future direction of numerous high-impact technologies. In the 2011 Hype Cycle, Gartner placed NFC payments at the very peak of the “Inflated Expectations” curve – […]

Sprint has revealed its latest NFC-enabled mobile phone, the Morotola Photon Q. The 4G LTE-enabled smart phone features a full QWERTY keyboard, 4.3-inch ColorBoost display, 1.5GHz dual-core processor and built-in support for NFC. The device also runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, allowing users to share links, apps, YouTube clips and more via NFC […]

With all the buzz about contactless mobile payments, it’s easy to overlook the other things NFC has to offer. Mobile & Apps takes a look at NFC’s top three use cases outside of payments: marketing, shopping, and peer-to-peer data sharing. NFC marketing strategies enable retailers and advertisers to connect with their customer base on a […]

Discover has announced that its cardholders can now load their Discover cards directly into Google Wallet, allowing them to tap and pay for items at the point of sale using an NFC phone. The announcement comes fresh on the heels of the newly launched cloud-based Google Wallet, which enables American Express, MasterCard, Visa and Discover […]

Payment systems provider ACI Worldwide has released Retail Commerce Server 5.0, the latest version of the company’s integrated payment solution for acquiring, authenticating, switching and authorizing retailers’ financial transactions. Targeted for the U.S. and Mexican markets, the updated Retail Commerce Server framework adds the ability to process payments initiated on mobile devices through the retailer’s […]

ABnote Australasia has selected Taiwan’s GO-Trust Technology to provide Single Wire Protocol (SWP) 8GB Secure microSD cards for a new “Mobile Credit Card Select” NFC payments application According to ABnote, the mobile wallet app enables users to select from a number of credit cards stored on their mobile phone to make contactless payments at the […]

Nokia India is in talks with a number of India’s Metro Rail projects to introduce NFC-enabled ticketing, according to MyDigitalfc. “Most Metro Rail projects in the country are discussing the possibility of an NFC-based solution for ticketing with us,” explained D. Shivakumar, Nokia’s senior vice president of sales in India, Middle East and Africa. “There […]

Images of Nokia’s first Windows 8 handset, codenamed Nokia Phi, have emerged on Chinese site WPDang. Billed as the successor to the Lumia 800, the Nokia Phi is expected to have at least a 4.3 inch display, a microSD slot and a dual-core Qualcomm processor, according to Mobot. The handset, confirmed by Nokia Innovation, will […]

Korean researchers have created a new passive NFC chip that could drastically drop the price of implementing NFC, according to the Institute of Physics (IOP). Developed by Sunchon National University and Paru Printed Electronics Research Institute, these “rectenna” chips are printed in rolls like newspaper – a method that reduces the price per unit to […]

With Visa’s contactless payment trials under way at the 2012 Olympics, the Telegraph’s Matt Warman took to the Olympic Village to see firsthand how the new payment technology is catching on. The first thing Warman noticed is that every retailer in the Village supports Visa and Visa alone. However, despite Visa’s monopoly on Olympic retailers, […]