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NFC Forum Announces Specifications to Support Peer-to-Peer Device Communication and Verify Data Authenticity

NFC Signature Record Type Definition (RTD) Candidate Specification and Logical Link Control Protocol (LLCP) Adopted Specification Accelerate NFC Development and Deployment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For further information: Ruth Cassidy, Virtual, Inc. rcassidy@virtualmgmt.com, +1 781-876-6239... Read More


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NFC Forum Calls for Breakthrough Solutions for Annual Competition

Wakefield, Mass., USA - Nov. 4, 2009 - The NFC Forum (http://www.nfc-forum.org), a non-profit industry association that advances the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, today announced a call for entries for its NFC Forum Global Competition (http://www.nfc-forum.org/events/2010_competition/). Now in its fourth year, the Competition promotes the development and deployment of innovative and exemplary NFC services by both commercial... Read More

04 Nov 2009
NFC Forum Advances Mission at All-Members Meeting in Finland

Wakefield, Mass., USA - September 21, 2009 - The NFC Forum (http://www.nfc-forum.org), a non-profit industry association that advances the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, today announced accomplishments from its recent all-members meeting in Oulu, Finland. Highlights of the event, which took place from August 29-September 6, included: a Plugfest at which NFC Forum member companies successfully tested the interoperability of... Read More

21 Sep 2009

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INSIDE CONTACTLESS RELEASES OPEN-SOURCE NFC PROTOCOL STACK

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, February 3, 2010 - Reflecting a clear and growing trend in the mobile industry, INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, today announced it is making its Open NFC commercial-grade NFC protocol stack (formerly MicroRead Software Foundation) available in a free and open source edition under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Offering a consistent API across all NFC... Read More

03 Feb 2010
World's first NFC Visitor Guidance System

NEXPERTS has implemented an innovative tourist guiding system with its partner cruso from Berlin, Germany, at Vyí Brod Monastery. Visitors can rent a special NFC-enabled guide that gives them textual, graphical and audio information on all important sights in the monastery. The multilingual system is triggered by touching a point near the sights to start the guidance. Thereby visitors can explore the content in the language they require just by... Read More

03 Nov 2009
ARYGON announces future-proof High-Speed NFC Reader Platform supporting all Mifare and FeliCa transponders including secure modes (e.g. DES, 3DES, AES, SAM)

Mainz, 12 October 2009 - ARYGON Technologies, a first mover in NFC / RFID reader modules, today announces its highly customizable and best-in-class High-Speed NFC Reader Platform for authenticating, reading and writing all Mifare and FeliCa family transponders including secure modes (proprietary encryption modes, DES, 3DES, AES etc.). It is a highly customizable Hardware and Firmware platform, optionally offering Contact Card and SAM slots,... Read More

12 Oct 2009

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Media Coverage
Mobile ticketing to explode by 2014, says report

Tickets on mobile phones for rail, air and bus travel are set to explode over the next three years, according to a leading IT analyst.

The Independent
04 Feb 2010
RFID News Roundup

NFC Forum adopts Logical Link Control Protocol (LLCP) spec...

RFID Journal
29 Jan 2010
NFC Forum releases two new specifications

The NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association that advances the use of NFC technology, announced the adoption and release of the Logical Link Control Protocol (LLCP) specification, which supports bi-directional communications between NFC-compliant devices.

NFCNews
27 Jan 2010

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