New technology is fuelling the public’s appetite for Out of Home advertising that also provides interactive experiences on the move, according to the results of a major study into NFC by Kinetic and JCDecaux. The study shows that there is a new opportunity for brands to retain customers and to deepen their engagement with potential [...]

iMPak Health, LLC announced today the launch of their new product, RhythmTrak, a Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled cardiovascular mobile health and wellness application. RhythmTrak is being launched on the Android Platform for both smart phones and tablets and the company plans to have the application on the iOS platform by the end of the [...]

Kadona CEO, Markus Lobmaier tells C-ITV why retailers are encouraging customers to ditch their plastic loyalty cards might be the best thing for retaining loyal customers. Have you ever returned from a trade fair with your head buzzing with stunning designs and stories about ambitious technologies that are guaranteed to take the world by storm? [...]

By Jörg Suchy, Samsung Semiconductor Throughout all areas of the mobile industry, the key message right now is collaboration. We are now seeing marked efforts to enable users in 2012 and beyond to engage in new technology. This commitment is widespread, at the recent MWC exhibition in Barcelona alone, there was public discussion throughout the [...]

ScholarChip® – a US-based provider of advanced applications for the educational community – has released its school safety and operations applications for phones equipped with NFC technology. ScholarChip’s School Safety and Operations (SSOS) platform includes applications for taking attendance in classrooms and on school buses, monitoring hall traffic, paying for public transportation, making mobile payments, and [...]

NEAR FIELD SOLUTIONS, the UK-based NFC specialists have been working with FUJIFILM over the past months to develop an NFC enhancement to FUJIFILM‟s acclaimed SmartPix photo kiosks – a first for the UK market.  The technology, which FUJIFILM have trade marked as TAP‟N‟PRINT™, is the latest feature to be unveiled in FUJIFILM Imaging Support Services [...]

WPG Americas, Inc. and Identive Group Inc. are to team up to deliver an NFC solution that allows data from high-end medical imaging devices to be transferred to multiple exam room monitors throughout a provider’s office, without cables, wires or additional network investment. Digital radiography cameras are rapidly replacing traditional x-ray systems in medical offices [...]

INSIDE Secure have introduced the MicroPass® 4101-2K, the first true NFC Forum tag to offer ample memory capacity for demanding applications at an affordable price.  Based on the proven INSIDE Secure MicroPass platform, the cost-effective MicroPass 4101-2K is fully compliant with the NFC Forum Type 4 tag requirements with 2K bytes of memory, enough to [...]