NFC. Clear Channel enters NFC advertising market. By Sarah Clark • nfcworld.com • Published October 11th, 2011 • Last updated 11 October 2011, 09:36 The out-of-home advertising giant has picked Singapore as the location for its first NFC-enabled smart poster network and plans to use it as a test bed and case study for the rest of Clear Channel International. CLEAR CHANNEL: Using Singapore as a test bed for NFC outdoor advertising Clear Channel Singapore is to add NFC functionality to 300 of the most influential out-of-home advertising sites in Singapore. The network of smart posters, delivered in partnership with NFC advertising specialist Tapit, will include six-sheet, 12-sheet and Media Portal panels at bus shelters across the island.
NFC phone users will be able to tap on any of the advertisements to receive music, videos, applications, brochures or other information directly to their phone. Techno NFC. Zenius Solutions. Reader (481) NFC-less iPhone 4S? Don't panic - Business. Commentary Apple has today launched the newest iteration of its iPhone, the 4S, without an integrated near-field communications (NFC) chip for payments.
But don't panic; it won't stall the adoption of mobile payments. The Apple iPhone 4S launched in the US this morning to mixed reactions. The Cupertino company revamped the internal components of the device to deliver a faster processor and a bigger graphics punch, but the rumoured NFC chip was nowhere to be found. Yet, Apple's decision to leave NFC by the wayside for now doesn't mean that mobile operators, banks and merchants will drop their NFC payment dreams, despite PayPal's concerns that an iPhone-less NFC market is a dead market.
Case manufacturers like Device Fidelity and other sticker-based NFC vendors can partner with banks and telcos to create a three-pronged partnership that would be unchallenged by Apple. One such example is the Commonwealth Bank's case-based deployment of NFC mobile wallet technology. Onward, finance sector. Le NFC incontournable à terme sur les transactions mobiles? L’ouverture publique de Google Wallet, l’application de paiement mobile de Mountain View, a fait monter la pression d’un cran sur les acteurs du secteur. Paypal a lancé son propre service de paiement mobile, les opérateurs américains AT&T, T-Mobile et Verizon se penchent sur le système concurrent Iris, tandis que, en France, Bouygues Telecom, Orange, SFR viennent de lancer Buyster, une solution de paiement fixe et mobile avec prélèvement direct sur le compte bancaire du client. Il n’en reste pas moins que le NFC (Near Field Communication, une technologie de communication sans contact à courte portée), la solution sur laquelle s’appuie l’offre de Google, devrait s’imposer rapidement sur le marché, les constructeurs de terminaux mobiles étant plutôt enclins à l’adopter.
Selon une étude de Informa Telecoms & Media, le nombre de terminaux supportant le NFC devrait passer de 44 millions en 2011 à 630 millions en 2015. 71 milliards de dollars en 2015. What's not in the iPhone 4S ... and why. High performance access to file storage No 4G radio and no NFC payment technology: the only new radio on the iPhone 4S is a CDMA connection for travellers that, it turns out, most travellers won't be able to use. We know Cupertino has been looking into Near Field Communications for a year or two, and presumably decided that the technology was still too immature to get the Apple glossing. But touting the iPhone 4S as a "world phone" is about as accurate as calling a baseball match the World Series.
Apple reckons the iPhone 4S deserves the moniker 'cos it has a CDMA radio as well as supporting GSM, but it turns out that a 4S will roam only from CDMA onto GSM, not the other way round. CDMA compatibility needs a secure element as well as a radio - a role fulfilled by the SIM on GSM networks. Even if you're an American traveller who bought your phone from Sprint or Verizon (the predominant CDMA operators) you'll be lucky to get a signal when abroad.
Which they won't. 1ere chasse au trésor via RFID et NFC - Actualites. Apple forgoes NFC m-payment integration with new iOS 5. PayPal Touts Own Mobile Payment Service, Dismisses NFC. NXP and Landis+Gyr demo NFC smart meters. By Sarah Clark • nfcworld.com • Published October 4th, 2011 • Last updated 4 October 2011, 10:55 Smart meters equipped with NFC will allow utility companies to save money and increase convenience, say the partners. LANDIS+GYR: 'NFC opens up new possibilities for the smart grid' NXP and energy management solutions provider Landis+Gyr are showcasing the capabilities of smart meters equipped with NFC technology at the Metering Europe event in Amsterdam this week. The two companies are demonstrating how utility companies will be able to use NFC smart meters to: Save money by removing the need to include an LCD display in a smart meter. “NFC opens up new possibilities for the smart grid,” says Daniel Lauk, head of platforms and innovation at Landis+Gyr EMEA.
“The NFC ecosystem is growing and extends far beyond mobile payments,” adds Henri Ardevol, vice president and general manager for NXP’s secure transactions group. [buzz] Un SDF multpilie ses revenus par 4 grâce à son iPhone ! Square est un système de paiement et de transactions financières entre particuliers ou particuliers et professionnels qui vient de se payer une belle tranche de pub virale.
Vous connaissez Square ? Imaginé depuis une paire d’années par Jack Dorsey, un co-fondateur de Twitter, et lancé il y a quelques semaines aux USA, Square est un système de paiement et de transactions financières entre particuliers ou particuliers et professionnels. Le dispositif, dont la partie visible est un petit lecteur de carte de crédit carré (« square ») que l’on connecte à son smartphone (disponible sur iOS et Android), permet de transférer des fonds entre deux comptes bancaires, avec toute la sécurité et la traçabilité d’une transaction classique, et une preuve de paiement instantanée par email.
Bref un truc assez génial, simple, et qui va certainement faciliter les flux d’argent entre personnes et petits commerces. Peut-être que Jack Dorsey appréciera moins ces deux sequels… Eight NFC products reach finals of Sesames awards. By Sarah Clark • nfcworld.com • Published October 3rd, 2011 • Last updated 3 October 2011, 12:40 Finalists for the annual Cartes trade show awards include Taiwan-based Go-Trust, developer of a single wire protocol compliant NFC microSD card. SESAMES: With eight products and services from seven suppliers, NFC is well represented among the finalists Eight NFC products and services have made it to the final stages of this year’s Sesames awards, organised in conjunction with the annual Cartes trade show in Paris.
The winners in each of the ten categories will be announced at an awards ceremony on 14 November. Sign up to get the most important NFC stories of the week delivered to your inbox. NFC here to stay despite payment provider scepticism: Banks - Near Field Communications (NFC) Representatives of Westpac and Visa Australia have indicated their support for the rollout of near field communications (NFC), despite some criticism from payment providers. NFC technology allows for two-way communication between a device and an NFC terminal at a cash register or pay station. Speaking at an Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) mobile payments roundtable in Sydney, moderator Michael Walters of Edgar, Dunn and Company, said that the online payment provider had recently referred to NFC as "not for commerce. " “Their argument is that it will take a long time to roll out the NFC infrastructure but in the meantime consumers just want to get on with mobile transactions," he said.
PayPal Australia managing director, Frerk-Malte Feller, recently told Computerworld Australia that it was "not yet proven" if NFC was the right technology to use for mobile transactions. “There is no doubt that NFC is going to succeed. NFC Contactless Payments And The iPhone 5. Citibank, Visa, and Google's NFC-powered Google Wallet have introduced the world to wave-and-pay systems using Near Field Communications (NFC). But, for now, the broad adoption of NFC has been limited by spotty distribution of hardware and compatible phone tech. On Tuesday, Apple could change all that by including or at least revealing plans to include NFC in its next iPhone or iPad. The company could instantly bring the system to the pocket of tens of millions of consumers around the world, and turn the mobile payments market on its head. How likely is this, now? Apple's hinted about coming NFC with specific job postings and a growing list of patents for the tech that would reinvent how you interact with stores' cash registers or withdraw money from an ATM.
Some of these patents describe using the devices' motion sensors to capture how consumer's "write" a signature with the corner of their iPhone as an alternative to a PIN during NFC payments. Other people are saying "no," however. Reader (5) NFC update expands on mobile sharing technology. ADELYA | carte de fidélité, programme de fidélisation, NFC, commerçant, commerce. NFC Chip Technology Picks Up More Steam. By Justin Dove Two recent events have likely ushered the dawn of NFC smartphone technology in the mainstream marketplace: First, Google (GOOG) finally released Google Wallet on September 19; second, Isis announced this week that a handful of major handset manufacturers are already showing support for its NFC platform. (Isis is a joint mobile payment venture between AT&T (T), Verizon (VZ) and T-Mobile.)
While Isis most likely won’t come online until 2012, it should offer some competition for Google, which is likely to use its recent acquisition of Motorola Mobility to help further push its NFC agenda. While these companies duke it out over who controls the NFC payment market, the semiconductor companies producing the chips used in the devices will most likely be the ultimate winners. NXP’s Weakness For more than a year, NXP Semiconductors (NXPI) was touted as the best way to play NFC-payment technology. These controllers cost roughly $5 per phone.
Innovision’s Vision Follow Investment U. ABI Research: MNOs Need Partnerships and NFC Handsets or Will Miss Out on $100 Billion Mobile Payments Opportunity. Adelya met les commerçants à l’heure du NFC. La société française Adelya ouvre une nouvelle voie à la fidélisation sur appareils mobiles, avec l’intronisation de la technologie sans contact NFC (Near Field Communication). Accessible via une application Android, la plate-forme Loyalty Operator vise à optimiser la relation entre les commerçants et leurs clients par l’intermédiaire des smartphones et tablettes. Quand le Google Wallet amorce une phase de démocratisation du paiement mobile, les grandes chaînes de supermarchés proposent d’ores et déjà au grand public des services à distance, par voie électronique. Concrétisée en 2005 par la fondation d’Adelya, l’idée qui germait dans l’esprit d’anciens membres du CRM n’a plus rien de novateur à l’heure où les requêtes des mobinautes représentent une part croissante du trafic sur Internet.
En parallèle, les smartphones connaissent un essor qui fait progressivement oublier les téléphones portables traditionnels et autres Feature Phones. Crédit photo : copyright Fenton – Fotolia.com. UK consumers will pay up to £3 to load a mobile wallet. By Sarah Clark • nfcworld.com • Published September 29th, 2011 • Last updated 29 September 2011, 17:13 70% of UK smartphone users and 34% of non-smartphone users say they would be willing to try out NFC payments, a new consumer survey has found.
SIMON-KUCHER: 'Promoting the uptake of smartphones is key to the growth of mobile payments' A new survey of UK consumers has found that 92% of smartphone users would be willing to use mobile payments for their purchases and other forms of money transmission. Mobile contactless payments were the most attractive type of mobile payment (70%) and overseas remittances the least (39%), the survey by Simon-Kucher & Partners found.
The survey also identified substantial differences in the willingness to adopt mobile payments between smartphone owners and other mobile phone users. “Smartphone users are clearly more advanced in their use of digital payment formats,” says Simon-Kucher’s Ben Snowman.