09/2011
Register, The
Japan’s DoCoMo is going to work with South Korea’s KT to create a cross-border payment infrastructure, coming in from the cold to embrace and extend the NFC standard.
The service is expected to launch around the end of next year, and support existing payment applications including BitWallet’s Edy in Japan and KT’s ticketing system [...]
07/2011
Dow Jones Newswires
Handbag and wallet makers beware: the day when we will finally be able to leave the house with just our mobile phone is approaching. Contactless payments are being integrated into mobile phones so they can be waved past a mobile reader to pay for our shopping.
The technology isn’t new. Consumers can already [...]
01/28/2011
Computerworld
Reports that the next iPhone and iPad could include Near Field Communication (NFC) technology have raised the prospect that many more consumers in the U.S. will soon be able to use their devices to pay for almost anything — a candy bar, a subway ride, a parking space, or a bag of groceries.
But while [...]
25/2011
CrunchGear
If you asked most folks what NFC means they’d probably mumble something about the Giants and wave you off. However, Near Field Communication is here to stay and if Google and Apple’s current and potential implementations are any indication, we’ll be using NFC devices in the next two years, at least in some specific environments. [...]
01/07/2011
PC Magazine
BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Just floating under the radar is the next oddball chip initiative that at some point should equal sales of any sort of GPS chip in mobile phones.
It’s the “near-field communications” or NFC chip.
As of this writing, it is just emerging and has generated some interest at the Consumer [...]
09/30/2010
Giga Om
On a panel of mobile payments providers at GigaOM’s Mobilize 2010, everyone was happy to agree that mobile payments are finally getting their day in the sun due to the growth of smartphones, mobile application platforms, and the sheer market size of 5 billion phones.
What panelists disagreed upon was how to do it, and [...]
02/18/2010
Telephony Online
Near-field communications, and mobile banking in general, get so much support from a wide swatch of players, but is support enough? Not yet. Without NFC-enabled mobile phones, it’s a market that will never see its potential realized. But we are getting closer.
At Mobile World Congress this week the GSM Association launched what they’re [...]
