Banks, telcos, TSMs … Who will get paid in the NFC ecosystem? By Autumn C. Giusti, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications Will that be Visa, MasterCard or iPhone? That’s the question banks and cell phone companies are hoping to hear more of in the next few years as the contactless payment world prepares to make the […]

STMicroelectronics, NXP, Trusted Logic and Stollmann have announced that they will promote a common hardware-independent API (Application Programming Interface) for NFC applications on Android mobile devices. The NFC API will enable developers to create NFC applications to be distributed through app stores, granting Android users access to a range of contactless applications, including mobile payments, […]

NXP Semiconductors has just joined the European Supply Chain Institute’s (ESCI) ‘Supply Chain Carbon Council,’ an organization dedicated to carbon emissions management and reduction. NXP is joining the Council as a Lead Sponsor of the multi-year program promoting the application of wireless technologies, such as RFID and NFC, to the problem of accurately tracking emissions […]

An Oxfam store in Manchester, UK is trying out a system that will enable people to attach stories to the objects that they donate using RFID tags, according to a Wired news article. When a person donates an item to the store they are asked to share a brief narrative about the item into a […]

McDonald’s and Tribal DDB of Chicago are building a Facebook app that will allow users to update their status by “checking in” at the fast food chain, according to Advertising Age. McDonald’s will be the first marketer to take advantage of this new geolocation service. This may even lead to McDonald’s using RFID tags to […]

Australia’s ACTION bus fleet is initiating the roll out a new $8 million smart card ticketing system in Canberra, according to a GovMonitor report. The roll out comes ahead of a trial of the system in late August, which is expected to provide an flexible cashless method of paying for travel charges. The refillable, prepaid […]

Rumors from Facebook’s F8 developer conference have it that Zuckerberg & co. may be adding NFC-based features to the social networking site, says pocket-lint.com. Visitors to the April 21st conference were issued tags to tap in and out of exhibits. Some believe this is Facebook’s way of testing the technology to develop a location tracking […]

A test is set to occur later this year, in the Yeongdeungpo district of Seoul, Korea to trace food waste disposal through the use of RFID technology, according to a Korea Times report. Equipped with RFID tags, plastic baskets will be placed at some 8,000 households, before expanding to the remaining 25 districts, to record […]

Intelleflex announced a partnership with Omni-ID to develop high-memory EPC Class1 Gen 2 standards based tags using Intelleflex’s XC1 chip technology. The Intelleflex XC1 chip offers 60-kbits of extended memory and is EPCglobal certified. On-chip memory is organized into 1 K block, each having its own read, write and permalock password. Other security features include […]

Saint Michael’s Medical Center in Newark, N.J., is using IBM’s real-time locating services, along with Sonitor Technologies’ infrastructure to track medical equipment and ensure compliance with patient safety regulations. The system will initially track more than 2,000 pieces of equipment including heart monitors, infusion pumps and ventilators using ultrasound receivers and tagging technology from Sonitor […]