Chris Marlowe   Research in Motion unveiled a new capability called BlackBerry Tag that lets users share information, photos and multimedia by tapping their handsets together. RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie introduced the feature, which uses Near Field Communication technology, Monday at the GITEX conference in Dubai. In addition to sharing larger files, BlackBerry Tag can [...]

Etisalat and MasterCard Worldwide have collaborated with industry leaders to announce an innovative cashless mobile payments programme in the UAE. This latest evolution in mobile payments uses Near Field Communication (NFC) technology to authorize everyday transactions via a smartphone. Today at Gitex 2011, Etisalat and MasterCard provided a preview of the commercial introduction of an [...]

  Google to launch NFC mobile wallet services Google’s near field communication (NFC) mobile wallet service will be launched in the US today, according to reports, enabling Android smartphone owners to use their phones to pay for goods in certain stores. Google launched an NFC field trial in New York in May, enabling users of Nexus S [...]

Written by Dan N. Earlier this month, Yale announced that they would be demonstrating a Near Field Communication version of their ZigBee/Z-Wave during this year’s CEDIA expo.  In case you aren’t familiar with NFC, it is a very short range wireless technology which is being added to more and more cellphones, allowing you to use your cellphone to pay [...]

September 17, 2011 Experience the Future of Mobile Interactive Marketing What’s with all this shock and awe over NFC? What could possibly be so opportune about a mobile technology as to bring about the axis of AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon in a joint venture? Why are entrenched media and transaction networks digging in? Why should [...]

EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS and ANAHEIM, CA, Sep 13, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — NXP Semiconductors N.V. NXPI -4.12% today announced that its PN544 Near Field Communication (NFC) radio controller will support Windows 8. NXP worked closely with Microsoft to develop a NFC driver for Windows 8, enabling a variety of use cases that are triggered by close proximity or [...]

Mobile operator Orange are to start offering the ‘Samsung Wave 578′ to British customers. Why is this significant? It is one of the smartphones which has NFC technology – near field communication. NFC has started to gather pace in recent times, due to the contactless payments that can be done, meaning less reliance (and potentially [...]

An updated version of Samsung’s Badaoperating system will be rolled out towards the end of this year, the company announced on its Twitter page. The new Bada 2.0 will then be available for older devices running on the earlier Bada OS.   As reported earlier by The Mobile Indian, Samsung had released the SDK (software development kit) [...]

Apple is gearing up to introduce the most-anticipated device of the year iPhone 5 to hungry consumer crowd. A new report from Bloomberg has emerged suggesting Sprint will begin selling Apple’s fablediPhone 5 this October. The report suggested that Sprint Nextel Corp. will be offering the smartphone next month on an unlimited data plan. Bloomberg’s report went on [...]

Announcement: Premium Swiss made luxury watches with NFC technology inside coming soon in 2012! A suptle touch of e-luxury by a simple, tap’. Try out this new kind of luxury watch – it will interact with any NFC enabled mobile phone. A growing number of NFC apps, ready to be uploaded to your phone. Simplify [...]