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Taiwan Chip Company Supplies NFC Technology to Low-Cost Phone Maker

Published: Jan 31 2012

Taiwan-based chip maker MStar Semiconductor announced today it is supplying NFC technology to Russia-based phone maker Fly for one or more handsets for the European market to be released as early as next month.

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Austrian Bank Announces Plans to Launch Mobile-Payment Service with microSDs and iPhone

Published: Jan 30 2012
Jan 30 2012 (All day)

Raiffeisen Bank International, one of Austria’s largest banks, is planning to launch contactless-mobile payment with microSD cards and an iPhone attachment.

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Samsung Confirms NFC Chip in Galaxy Note, though NFC Version Already Shipping in Korea

Published: Jan 27 2012

Samsung Electronics has confirmed it has an NFC version of its Galaxy Note, though that comes as no surprise to operators in South Korea, which have been selling the tablet-smartphone hybrid with NFC inside for about two months.

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Inside Secure Releases New Android NFC Stack; Accuses NXP of Monopolizing Market

Published: Jan 20 2012

NFC chip supplier Inside Secure has released a new version of its NFC software stack, as it seeks to break rival NXP Semiconductors’ dominance of the market for NFC chips in Android phones.

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Microsoft Requires ‘Visual Mark’ for Windows 8 Devices Supporting NFC

Published: Jan 19 2012

Microsoft is requiring device makers to include a “visual mark” for tablets and PCs supporting NFC and running the software giant’s forthcoming Windows 8 operating system.

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Japan’s KDDI Announces Plans for Small NFC Launch with Galaxy S II

Published: Jan 16 2012
Jan 17 2012 (All day)

Japan’s second largest mobile operator, KDDI, said it would launch Japan’s first mobile NFC service late this month with the Samsung Galaxy S II–though the service will start out small because of the lack of phones that support both standard NFC and Japan's proprietary FeliCa technology, as well as Japan's nearly nonexistent infrastructure of standard contactless readers.

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Spanish Bank Plans To Turn Barcelona into Contactless-Payment City

Published: Jan 12 2012

Large Spanish retail bank La Caixa will begin rolling out 1 million contactless cards along with more than 15,000 point-of-sale terminals and 500 contactless ATMs in Barcelona this month.

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GlobalPlatform and SIMalliance Seek to Build ‘De Facto Standard’ for Accessing Secure Elements

Published: Jan 11 2012
Jan 12 2012 (All day)

The SIMalliance trade group and GlobalPlatform standards organization say they are working on what they predict will become a “de-facto standard” for the way apps on NFC phones communicate with secure elements.

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Sony Unveils Pair of Android NFC Phones and ‘SmartTags’

Published: Jan 11 2012

Sony Ericsson has announced two NFC-enabled Android smartphones and NFC tags for its Xperia series, touting NFC as enabling consumers to share content, as well as “an increasing number of NFC applications.”

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Visa Announces Certification of Six NFC Phone Models for SIM-based payWave

Published: Jan 10 2012
Jan 11 2012 (All day)

Visa has announced its first certifications of NFC phones, approving six models to run its contactless application, payWave, on SIM cards.

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Intel, HP Signal Plans for Supporting NFC on Ultrabooks

Published: Jan 10 2012
Jan 11 2012 (All day)

U.S.-based Intel, as expected, is planning to incorporate NFC technology into chip designs for future ultrabook computers, the vice president and general manager of the chip maker’s PC group said Monday.

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Sprint Announces Two New NFC Phones Supporting Google Wallet

Published: Jan 10 2012

U.S. mobile carrier Sprint has announced two more phones supporting the Google Wallet, including Google’s new Android smartphone, the Galaxy Nexus.

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France: Tapping NFC For Ticketing in the Alps

Published: Sep 30 2009
Grenoble, France
Scope: 
Trial
Status: 
Completed
Launch: 
Mar 2007
Main Application: 
Ticketing (transit)
Mobile Operator: 
Bouygues Telecom
Service Provider (application): 
Transdev (transit tickets)
Users: 
100
NFC Handsets: 
Sagem my700X
Secure Element: 
SIM
Other Vendors: 
Gemalto (SIM card, applications), Inside Contactless (NFC phone chip), Parkeon (mobile ticket recharge server)

Trial enabled users to pay fares after reportedly downloading tickets over the air. Organizers also said users could also get information on line closures, delays, and schedules when they tapped readers at bus and tram stops to pay for rides. They could get digital maps of the area around the stop on their phones by tapping a smart tag.

NFC Times Take: 

Trial was one of the first uses for NFC chips and SIMs that supported an earlier version of the single-wire protocol standard. The SWP is a standard for NFC chips and SIMs with NFC apps onboard to communicate in phones.

 

 

* Trusted Service Manager: Defined loosely to include companies or other organizations securely distributing, provisioning and managing applications, generally over the air, on secure elements in NFC mobile phones; or licensing their platforms for this purpose.

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