Archive for 'Retail'
NFC Joint Venture Under Investigation
The planned joint venture planned by the UK’s mobile operators Vodafone, Telefónica and Everything Everywhere have been put on hold after the European regulator opened an investigation citing “potential competition concerns”. The EU commission now has 90 [...]
Fujifilm NFC Enabled Printing Kiosks
SmartPix Kisoks will now support NFC and will allow users to easily connect and transfer pictures to the kiosk for printing. The system works via a module installed by retailers and after establishing a connection from [...]
JCDecaux’s NFC Roll-out In Reading, UK
JCDecaux have rolled out NFC advertising in the English town of Reading as part of a project called ‘Test the Near Future’. In all there will be over 325 NFC touch points enabling users to connect [...]
Vodafone & Visa Partner NFC Payments
Vodafone and Visa have announced a partnership that will be made available to Vodafone’s 400m customer base spread across 30 different countries and will run on Visa’s NFC payment system payWave. The service will initially be [...]
World Expo 2012 NFC
This year the World Expo 2012 is in Korea and not surprisingly as already 5million Koreans have NFC enabled mobile phones, NFC technology promises to be featured quite heavily. Arriving at the expo you will need to park, [...]
NFC ‘News Shorts’ Round up
Here is our round up of NFC news shorts including news on a Lexus NFC magazine advert, Mastercard’s NFC cinema seats and AT&T getting Google Wallet. Lexus will have an NFC tag in an advert shown [...]
Pouch – Cloud Based NFC Payment Service
Today the first cloud based NFC emulation service which fully confirms to MasterCard’s PayPass and Visa’s PayWave contactless payment standards has been announced by YESpay and YES-wallet. The new technology allows merchants via the Pouch cloud service to implement a contactless [...]
NFC Airport Checkins
SITA, who provide IT solutions for the air travel industry, have released a proof of concept solution for air travellers that will allow for processes such as check in and access to areas such as the [...]
NFC for B&Q Stores UK
We learn today that B&Q is behind the scenes planning to introduce NFC payments for their stores that will allow members of the public to pay for their goods via their Mobile phones. Also today, Torex, who are [...]
NFC Vending Machines
Cantaloupe Systems who provide technical services for vending machine operators confirm that they are installing the NFC technology in vending machines, which will allow users with Google Wallet installed on their Android phone to pay for [...]
Paypal Mobile Payments
Paypal has unveiled a new system of mobile payments that does not require NFC technology and while Paypal is not dismissing NFC technology, they have developed this system to migrate from being an online only business [...]
NFC Comes To Starbucks
Today news breaks that Starbucks coffee houses in the UK will soon be offering NFC payments after signing a deal with Barclay card and Visa Europe. Initially it will be piloted in selected stores and if [...]
