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Broadcom set to surf the NFC wave

"There are some big things happening in the sector," he claimed. "The NFC Forum has done a good job on promoting interoperability and there are now a lot of contactless payment terminals being deployed."

NewElectronics
25 Aug 2010
NFC sees light at end of the tunnel with transit projects

Integrating NFC into smartphones makes more sense than having it in the simpler NFC phones Nokia offers today, according to Jonathan Collins, principal analyst at ABI Research. A growing number of NFC chipset vendors will give phone vendors more choice, and result in lower costs because of increased competition, he said.

Bloomberg Businessweek
25 Jun 2010
Nexperts and PharmaFabula win NFC Forum's 2010 competition

The winning entries in this year's NFC Forum Global Competition include retail payments, healthcare, education and social networking applications.

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Near Field Communications World
22 Jun 2010
NFC Forum Announces Global Competition Winners

An application that enables self-service shopping and a project that offers audio labeling of medications for the blind were the winners in their respective categories in the NFC Forum's Global Competition 2010.

NFCTimes
22 Jun 2010
All new Nokia smartphones to come with NFC from 2011

Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia's executive vice president for markets, has announced that all new smartphones introduced by the company from 2011 will come with NFC. Vanjoki, who is responsible for consumer insights, sales, marketing, manufacturing and logistics across all Nokia products and services, made the announcement during a keynote presentation at the Mobey Forum's 10th anniversary workshop in Helsinki this morning.

Near Field Communications World
17 Jun 2010
Breaking down the business cases for NFC

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 leap to near field communication (NFC).

NFCNews
01 Jun 2010
Envisioning a World With NFC-enabled Phones

The basic goal of many new technologies is to make life easier, and Near Field Communication (NFC) is no different.

RFID Journal
31 May 2010
Nice Move for NFC

In what is being hailed as the first commercial near-field communication (NFC) service in Europe, a mobile payment service is being launched this Friday in the city of Nice, on France's Côte d'Azur, by Orange SA and others.

Light Reading Mobile
21 May 2010
What is near field communication (NFC) technology?

To put it in a nutshell, Near Field Communication is a new technology that is based on short-range wireless connectivity technology.

Helium
18 May 2010
Near Field Communication (NFC): Next Big Hope?

Does NFC have a future as a sustainable business venture? Have companies already started developing the required infrastructure for these devices? What is the state of infrastructure readiness in emerging economies? Has the technology already been implemented? What makes NFC so distinct from the already present devices such as Bluetooth or wireless Ethernet?

Voice & Data
10 May 2010
NFC Technology: 6 Ways It Could Change Our Daily Lives

NFC allows a device, usually a mobile phone, to collect data from another device or NFC tag at close range. In many ways, it's like a contactless payment card that is integrated into a phone. In other ways, it's similar to Bluetooth, except that instead of programming two devices to work together, they can simply touch to establish a connection.

Mashable
06 May 2010
Potential technologies that consumers may use for online ID

President Obama wants people to be better secured when using the Internet. The rising costs and concerns over identity theft as well as weak cybersecurity have caused the president to task a group with finding solutions to the online identification problem.

NFCNews
07 Apr 2010
NFC: Never Mind Credit Cards, Pay With Your Phone

One of the emerging trends of the Mobile Web is using your phone to interact with the real world...There's a world of more practical functionality that hasn't yet ramped up in the West - using your phone as a payment device (for example mobile ticketing), getting special offers from retailers, downloading data from the Web via 'smart posters' on the street, and more.

ReadWriteWeb
01 Apr 2010
Finalists announced for 2010 NFC Forum Global Competition

The NFC Forum has announced the twenty finalists for its 2010 Global Competition. This year's entries covered a broad span of consumer and business application areas, says the NFC Forum, and came from Asia, Europe and North America.

Near Field Communications World
24 Mar 2010
New tech tracks you to the tomb

The device works as an heirloom or memento, which you can keep in a leather and felt pouch. (Imagine handing the stones out at a funeral.) You can also have the RosettaStone affixed, or inlaid, on a headstone, according to its manufacturer, Phoenix-based Objecs, LLC.

Boston.com
15 Mar 2010
NFC Forum welcomes 19 new members

The new members are from several sectors of the NFC industry, including semiconductor and terminal manufacturers, higher education, service providers, compliance and testing organizations and systems integrators.

NFCNews
09 Mar 2010
NFC Forum Adds a Telco and Chip Maker to Its Ranks

The NFC Forum trade and standards group today announced several new members, including one of Canada's largest mobile operators, Rogers Communications, and a chip maker for smartphones, Marvell Technology Group, as voting members.

NFCTimes
09 Mar 2010
NFC Forum adds 19 new members

The list of new members is headed by fabless semiconductor supplier Marvell Technology and Canadian mobile network operator Rogers Communications, both of which have joined the forum as Principal Members.

Near Field Communications World
09 Mar 2010
NFC Forum Expands Global Reach with 19 New Members

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 19 new members from 14 countries. The organization made the announcement during its week-long all members meeting taking place in Shanghai.

RCRWireless
09 Mar 2010
NFC payments tipped to surpass contactless cards in five years

For something invisible, sentiment behind Near Field Communication (NFC) was very visible at the Mobile World Congress this year, with everyone from phone manufacturers to software start-ups pushing for the arrival of the mobile wallet.

SiliconRepublic.com
16 Feb 2010

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