Coupons.com CTO Steve Horowitz says the future in large-scale national couponing lies in NFC technology, according to Mediapost.com. The company, which issued more than $1.2 billion in digital coupon savings last year, envisions trading in the traditional daily deals you snip out of the newspaper for e-coupons and loyalty accounts stored on NFC phones. A […]

GAO Embedded has released a new contactless reader module developed for access control, contactless payment, and product authentication and anti-counterfeiting. The module, model 713010, consists of a 9.6 to 38.4 kbps UART (TTL) host interface, four general purpose I/O ports and an intuitive API. Used with an external antenna, it boasts a read range of […]

France’s Twinlinx is demonstrating its MyMax NFC payment sticker at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, according to techradar.com. Introduced in France last year, MyMax gives any Bluetooth-enabled smart phone NFC functionality for a fraction of the cost of an NFC phone, allowing users to make contactless payments by simply slapping the £21 sticker […]

Connecthings has introduced an online store that enables anyone to place orders for customized NFC tags. The site, nfctagstore.com, lets customers personalize every aspect of the tag, from its design (picture upload and touch up) to its content (URL, phone number, short messages, vCard, blog address, Twitter account, etc.). The tags are delivered ready-to-use directly […]

NXP Semiconductors and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) have developed a joint software solution offering secure interfaces between the handset, NFC functionality and secure elements such as the SIM card. The open source solution integrates NXP’s NFC controllers with G&D’s secure software solutions to enable NFC to be integrated into mobile handsets based on the Android […]

Contactless network provider accells has announced a partnership with mobile financial service provider Fundamo to bring NFC retail payment and other point of sales services to emerging markets. The partners say they will leverage Fundamo’s 50 existing mobile financial service deployments across more than 40 countries worldwide for the NFC rollout, including 27 countries in […]

Google is upgrading its Android 2.3.3 SDK platform to enable developers more options in creating NFC apps. Announced via the Android developers blog, the new features of Android 2.3.3 include: A comprehensive NFC reader/writer API that lets apps read and write to almost any standard NFC tag in use today. Advanced Intent dispatching that gives […]

GAO Embedded has announced the release of a new UHF development kit designed for contactless financial transactions and encrypted authentication. The development kit, model 726001, contains an M9 CF (Compact Flash) module, a common blade interface board, a UHF external antenna, a sample tag kit, demo software and software libraries. The kit also offers RS-232 […]

Contactless network provider accells has announced it will unveil its new point-of-sale contactless mobile service this month at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona. By linking a contactless tag or any NFC-enabled phone to the user’s mobile phone number, accells enables customers to make contactless transactions at the point of sale, conduct money transfers, […]

SOFTBANK MOBILE has chosen Gemalto to provide NFC technology for the latest mobile contactless payment trial in Japan. The trial will enable some of SOFTBANK’s customers to use their mobile phone for contactless payments in convenience stores, fast-food restaurants and theaters. The program also offers users the option of performing NFC transactions from two credit […]