NFC Forum

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - January 26, 2012 - Sequent Software, a leading provider of mobile near field communication (NFC) software and services, today announced its breakthrough technology, Core Card Services (CCS). Sequent's CCS unlocks NFC innovation for app developers, making it possible for any mobile app to seamlessly integrate NFC payments, ticketing, coupons, ID badge access and more. ... Read More

(UPM RFID, Tampere, 5 January 2012) - UPM RFID and Freedom Shopping, a leading provider of item-level RFID solutions, have joined forces to deliver UHF and NFC RFID tags and inlays from UPM RFID through a new online store, 'NFC Freedom' at nfcfreedom.com. The NFC Freedom product range features UPM BullsEye, UPM Circus and UPM RaceTrack NFC tags, as well as UPM Web and UPM ShortDipole UHF tags in a variety of delivery formats. Consumers,... Read More

Toppan Forms Co., Ltd. has announced today that it will establish Toppan Forms Payment Service (TFPS) and it will begin operations from the 1st of December, 2011.  TFPS will be providing a payment settlement platform for Near Field Communications (NFC) and contactless based payment services. Toppan Forms currently provides hardware and software development, consulting and sales for NFC devices and modules that comply with international... Read More

(UPM RFID, Tampere, 19 September 2011) - UPM RFID is launching a new portfolio of NFC tags and inlays featuring NXP's NTAG203 ICs. UPM RFID's new NFC products include UPM BullsEye, UPM Circus and UPM MiniTrack, with the new NXP NTAG203 chip offering 1300 bits/144 bytes of user memory, significantly improved performance and a faster response time when reading with NFC smartphones... Read More

The use of near field communication (NFC) greatly simplifies the Bluetooth pairing process. Stollmann, a leading provider of NFC protocol software, and ARS Software, a supplier and integrator of iAnywhere Bluetooth protocol software, are collaborating on secure simple pairing of Bluetooth and NFC. ARS Software has developed an NFC secure simple pairing out-of-band (OOB) application for the iAnywhere stack using Stollmann NFC software... Read More

In the next years, millions of NFC tags and Smart Posters will be spread over the world and thousands of mobile applications will be made available to interpret them. Many of these tags will have customized data requiring the end user to have in his/her smartphone a specific mobile application to be able to interact with them. With NFC Launcher, the process of identification and launch of the mobile application that interprets each tag is... Read More

IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 14, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today launched the BCM20203 near field communications (NFC) tag solution for consumer devices. ... Read More

Malaga, Spain, December 8th, 2010 - Product manufacturers are able to certify their NFC implementations now... Read More

The first price in the commercial category for the best Near Field Communication (NFC) Service goes to NEXPERTS, Austria. Each year the NFC Forum organizes a global competition to award the most innovative projects. The awarded project Touch & Pay allows payment in a self service shop by a simple touch to the price label of a product with an NFC-enabled mobile phone... Read More

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