Articles in the NFC Category
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?
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.
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
Posted in NFC, RFID on 16 June 2006
This article talks about the convenience that NFC and RFID could bring for the hotel industry.
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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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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
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 [...]
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
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
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
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

