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NFC payments to reach tipping point in three years?
News The market for contactless mobile payments using near field communications (NFC) is set to reach a tipping point over the next three to five years, according to a new report by Juniper Research. NFC mobile wallet devices will remain limited next... [18 Jul 2008]
Photos: Accenture waves goodbye to the wallet
Photo The technology works by putting an NFC reader and transmitter into a phone that can be linked to a bank, loyalty card system or travel account such as Oyster cards. The phone can then be swiped in front of an NFC reader or another NFC equipped... [31 Jan 2008]
O2 Tube trial takes mobile payments underground
News O2 has today launched a six-month pilot of NFC (near-field communications) wallet phone technology in London, describing it as the "largest and most comprehensive trial in Europe" of a technology that's already big in Japan. [28 Nov 2007]
TfL and Nokia to roll out 'Oyster phone' trial
News As with the Oyster card itself, the handset will probably use a variant of RFID technology called near field communications (NFC). Meanwhile, in Japan, many mobile phones already incorporate NFC technology for travel and payment purposes. [26 Nov 2007]
Barclays targets taxis with wave-and-pay tech
News Barclays hopes to introduce NFC cards later this year. NFC technology is already in use in mobile phones and cards in Japan and the US but has been slow in coming to Europe. Barclays and Computer Cab have teamed up to develop a near field... [27 Apr 2007]
Retailers fear contactless payments
News The idea is that newly issued debit and credit cards will be fitted with a second chip that will give the cards the ability to be read in retailers' stores using NFC (near field communications) technology. [24 Apr 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. [12 Mar 2007]
Death of cash? Not yet, say retailers...
News Visa launched a mobile platform that it said will "lay the foundation" for the commercial deployment of contactless mobile payments and near-field communications (NFC) services around the world last month. [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. [31 Jan 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: Photos of the year
Photo Here a plaque outside the Abbaye offers tourist information using NFC. If a tourist places their NFC-equipped mobile against the Flytag logo - in the upper left hand corner of the sign - information about the Abbaye will be transmitted directly to... [20 Dec 2006]
Nokia and Visa team up for credit cards
News Nokia and Visa are the latest twosome to climb aboard the NFC bandwagon, giving credit card users in Malaysia a chance to pay for goods with their phones. Visa will be installing 2,500 Visa Wave readers - which can deduct payment from a user's... [28 Apr 2006]
Cheat Sheet: NFC and contactless payments
Cheat Sheet Alternatively, NFC cards or phones can be stocked up in advance with credit and then used as payment. Around ten million of the devices had been shipped and 100 million NFC chips have been shipped around the country, most on smart cards. [20 Apr 2006]
Mobiles encroach on credit cards with DoCoMo deal
News DoCoMo uses FeliCa technology from Philips and Sony based on NFC (near field communications) which enables a customer to pay for small items with their phone. Mizhuo bank customers who hold a Mizhuo Mieage Club card will be able to use DoCoMo's... [07 Mar 2006]
Credit cards get RFID makeover from MasterCard
News Nokia, however, foresees a future for NFC as a consumer nice-to-have, with applications including swapping business cards electronically between phones. The technology that will be used to power the system - RFID spin-off NFC (near field... [04 Nov 2004]
Motorola and Mastercard in "credit card" phone trial
News NFC is used in "contactless" credit card readers, which are replacing traditional readers that require cards to be swiped, or gobbled up and spat out. Motorola will outfit the phones with Near Field Communication (NFC), a powerful and secure... [13 Oct 2004]
