Articles in the NFC Category

Mobile Point Of Sale (MPOS): Tomorrow’s mobile phone?
Posted in Headline, Mobile Payment News, NFC on 13 August 2008

Motorola Sparrow: A multi-functional mobile phone that acts as a mobile point of sale device. Besides its telephony features, the Sparrow comprises a credit card reader, a scanner, and more importantly RFID connectivity. Is this the future of retail store checkout we have been dreaming of?

Migration from cards to mobile phones with NFC
Posted in Academia, Discussions, Featured, My Research, NFC on 8 November 2006

Some analysts think that there might be a shift to mobile phones for advanced payments.

News about NFC
Posted in General, NFC, Website on 4 November 2006

Here I provide a link to the PaymentsNews.com website which regroups all the NFC posts.
NFC news on PaymentsNews.com

NFC and RFID in Hotels
Posted in NFC, RFID on 16 June 2006

This article talks about the convenience that NFC and RFID could bring for the hotel industry.
Read more on Payments News

JCB and its NFC trial
Posted in General, NFC, Platforms on 12 June 2006

JCB has announced it s working together with “seven world-class players in payment systems, terminals, NFC and mobile technology” to launch a pilot project using an NFC contactless credit payment scheme this autumn in Amsterdam.
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NFC for vending machines
Posted in Discussions, General, NFC, Platforms on 8 May 2006

Credit card companies see the emerging ‘near-field communications’ technology revolutionizing retail commerce. The emergence of cell phone-based electronic wallets will certainly impact vending.
Read more about it:
- AMonline.com
- Payments News

Report on m-payments in the USA
Posted in Discussions, NFC, Reports, SMS, USA on 8 May 2006

Mercator Advisory Group has announced a new report: “Mobile Payments In The United States: SMS and NFC Implementations Enter the Market”.
Mobile Payments In The United States examines the two most relevant mobile payment technologies, NFC and SMS, in the United States market. Using the recent activity as a guide, the report discusses the mobile payment [...]

NTT DoCoMo and its financial services
Posted in Discussions, Japan, NFC, Platforms, RFID on 1 May 2006

Yukako Ono writes for Japan’s Asahi.com about NTT DoCoMo’s new DCMX contactless mobile payment service phones containing Sony Corp.’s Felica contactless IC chip.
More at: Payments News
Original source: asahi.com

Services Mobiles présente NFC
Posted in NFC on 27 April 2006

Le site Service Mobiles (Site) présente brièvement NFC. Il propose aussi d’aller voir une video sur le site officiel du NFC forum (video).
Pour en lire plus: Services Mobiles

NTT DoCoMo: DCMX credit card function
Posted in Japan, NFC, RFID, Videos on 21 April 2006

Wireless Watch Japan provides a video about the NTT DoCoMo mobile phone DCMX credit card function.
To see the video: Click here

MobileLime’s Mobile Wallet Receives CTIA Wireless 2006 E-Tech Award
Posted in NFC, Platforms, SMS, USA on 14 April 2006

From Business Wire:
MobileLime(R), the first U.S.-based company to turn the mobile phone into a marketing, loyalty and payment device, today announced that its Mobile Wallet was selected as the 1st place winner of the Wireless Emerging Technologies Award at CTIA WIRELESS 2006 for the Consumer Messaging Application (SMS/MMS) category.
Read more:
- Business Wire
- Payments News