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NFC payments to reach tipping point in three years?
News Report author Howard Wilcox said in a statement: "NFC will achieve traction initially in developed countries and regions, with Japan already leading the way with FeliCa-enabled phones. The market for contactless mobile... [18 Jul 2008]
Wallet phones: Sony and NXP double team chips
News In a memorandum of understanding, the pair announced their joint venture will be set up in the middle of next year and will be charged with creating a secure NFC chip that works with various flavours of NFC-compatible phones, such as... [20 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet: NFC and contactless payments
Cheat Sheet Sony has been leading the NFC charge in the land of the rising sun with its near field communications technology, FeliCa. FeliCa has been taken up big style by the likes of NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile... [20 Apr 2006]
French road test cashless city
News While NFC isn't new - Sony's FeliCa, a variant of NFC, is already big in Japan, where more than 100 million FeliCa chips have been shipped, some 10 million of which are carried on mobiles - the Caen... [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. Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo has bought an 18 per cent... [07 Mar 2006]
Japan blends credit cards and mobiles
News Its i-mode FeliCa service lets users turn their mobiles into wallets, by making micropayments with money previously charged to the phone. Japan's largest mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo, has launched its own credit card... [30 Nov 2005]
Smart phone big boys on the hunt for killer app
News Dr Kiyohito Nagata, VP and MD in the product department of Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo, said the company is throwing its weight even further behind FeliCa, the technology for mobile contactless payments. [11 Oct 2005]
O2's i-mode to launch next month
News O2 is also very interested in the potential for bringing FeliCa - the contactless payment system based on i-mode - handsets to the UK. O2 has announced a 1 October launch date for its i-mode mobile data service. [26 Sep 2005]
DoCoMo to buy into credit card company?
News The operator has so far shifted over one million phones equipped with Sony's FeliCa chip, which enables users to make small payments by swiping the phone over a reader. With newer FeliCa phones carrying... [20 Apr 2005]
Great Wall of China chipped
News So too is the Felica standard from Sony, the other main company behind NFC's early development. Philips Semiconductor has won a contract for an e-ticketing system at the Great Wall of China. The move follows a licensing... [03 Sep 2004]
DoCoMo reveals mobile that's your keys, train ticket, cash...
News The smart-card technology is based on Sony's FeliCa chip. Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo has revealed plans that will see its next generation of mobile handsets become a sort of wireless wallet. The four new phones... [17 Jun 2004]
