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White Paper: Near Field Communication

whitepaper Near Field Communication (NFC) offers tremendous potential, not only because it can roll out for mass adoption, but because of the number of different ways in which it can be used to make life easier.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications

[28 Mar 2008]

User Experience Building Blocks

whitepaper Near Field Communication (NFC) offers tremendous potential, not only because it can roll out for mass adoption, but because of the number of different ways in which it can be used to make life easier.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications

[28 Mar 2008]

Dongle mania to kill off wi-fi hotspots?

News N is for NFC Currently, mobile data services are generally too expensive for mass market adoption but that will change with the increasingly extensive rollout of high speed HSDPA, the launch of new data plans offering increased download limits, and...

Tags: data card, wi-fi, mobile broadband

[28 Mar 2008]

3.5G network growth ramping up

News N is for NFC It clearly is the logical next step in mobile broadband evolution and in Western Europe it will gain significant adoption moving forward," he told silicon.com. Husson added: "The launch of HSUPA will enable customers to upload content...

Tags: hspa, hsdpa, mobile wimax, 3.5g

[09 Jan 2008]

iPhone too pricey for businesses

News N is for NFC Tying the iPhone exclusively to O2 is one of the biggest barriers to corporate adoption. Bosses are not planning to make the iPhone available to employees as a corporate mobile option because of the high price-tag and network operator...

Tags: cio jury, apple, iphone

[24 Sep 2007]

Leader: Why cash will be weighing us down for years

Leader And now rather than hand over some cash or write a cheque it is possible to make a purchase by tapping a teller's till with your wallet or mobile phone using contactless and near field communications (NFC) payments.

Tags: credit card, cyber criminals, cash, cash machine

[12 Mar 2007]

Future mobiles will cost consumers $150bn

News Mobile payments, including NFC, will remain the cash cow of the newbies, generating $359m by 2011 - although most of the revenues will come from the Asia Pacific region where the technology is already in widespread use.

Tags: mobile content, nfc, gambling, sms

[31 Jan 2007]

Wallet phones: Sony and NXP double team chips

News Former Philips' chip unit NXP and Sony have announced they are to create a joint venture to promote the adoption of mobile NFC a goal that trade association the GSMA has also announced it will be working on.

Tags: nxp, nfc, sony

[20 Nov 2006]

Near Field Communication in the Real World: Turning the NFC Promise Into Profitable, Everyday Applications

whitepaper Now that international standards have been agreed and published for Near Field Communication (NFC), the market is set for widespread adoption of the technology in a whole range of applications. Innovision sees three key areas of application for NFC...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, ticketing, nfc, payment

[15 Nov 2006]

Millions of Americans to open wallet mobiles

News With Europe's first commercial rollout just launched, analysts are predicting that mobile wallets - such as phones with NFC technology embedded - are gearing up to take on the US too. NFC is thought to be the most likely standard to develop for...

Tags: mobile wallet, wallet, nfc

[24 Apr 2006]

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