I like to see when banks start to get involved and concerned about new technology. It’s a sure sign that NFC technology may eventually become mainstream. This news update come to us from American Banker and Source Media’s Will Hernandez . As Always- Read it. Enjoy it. Share it… Mobile-payment proponents let out a collective sigh when [...]
Google has launched its first version of the Google Wallet app to Sprint, a significant step in the implementation of near field communication (NFC) technology. With NFC, users can simply pay for goods by waving their NFC phone in front of a contactless payment scanner. In other words, NFC allows for simplified transactions, data exchange, [...]
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By Sarah Clark | September 6th, 2011 @ NFCWorld.com The nurses use their NFC phones to track and manage home healthcare visits, in one of the world’s longest established commercial NFC services. NEDAP: Home health care tracking solution is one of the earliest commercial NFC systems More than 50,000 care workers in the Netherlands are [...]
By Sarah Clark Reporting for NFCWorld.com Google has been field testing its NFC payments service with a large group of users since late May and, from later this summer, anyone with a Nexus S 4G and a Sprint contract will be able to use their phone to make mobile payments at merchants that accept MasterCard [...]
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Written by Gareth Halfacree on 29 August, 2011 Reported at NFCNews.com In a desperate attempt to rekindle interest in its products and to avoid becoming just another Windows Phone box-shifter, Nokia has announced that it will be including NFC technology in all its future products. NFC – Near Field Communications – chips allow short-range two-way [...]
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12:15a ET August 3, 2011 (MarketWatch) Ilana Greene, a Chicago-based freelance writer, contributed to this report. SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — On a safari in Kenya, Dylan Higgins pulled out his credit card to pay for himself and his family — and so the tourism workers hauled out the credit-card reader that most Kenyans call obsolete. [...]
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NFC phones use an alternative to Bluetooth known as near field communication. Near field communication is a type of short range, high frequency communication that enables phones to wirelessly transmit signals. The technology has an operative range of about four feet, enabling NFC phones to be used with a headset, and with a number of [...]
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A new online service is designed to make it easy for businesses to begin using NFC by providing smart posters and business cards that enable customers to ‘like’ a retailer on Facebook, follow it on Twitter and check in on Foursquare as well as a range of other tag reading solutions. NFC HUB: An online [...]
NFC Phones are finally gaining traction. The introduction of Google’s, Google Wallet on the Sprint network last week firmly entrenches NFC technology in the center of the mobile payment market. Here is a list of NFC phones NFC phones that you can buy today and NFC phones that are coming soon… Nexus S 4G from [...]
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