Small-scale pilots are a thing of the past now. When it comes to Contactless / NFC technology, developers are thinking much bigger and better. Citywide projects are in place to bring the benefits of this technology to as many application areas as possible; payments, posters, tourist information services, public transportation and even parking – is [...]

Another announcement from WIMA NFC Monaco, sees NXP Semiconductors showcasing good2gether and Think&Go NFC; two applications that are making use of the company’s unique end-to-end technology position via state-of-the-art NFC tag ICs and NFC mobile solutions. These service providers say that they are are bringing their solutions to a new level, adding more convenience to [...]

NXP Semiconductors N.V. have announced at the WIMA 2012 event the availability of MIFARE4Mobile as an embedded applet on the latest and upcoming NXP embedded secure elements to support mobile ticketing for the sizeable MIFARE Classic system install base worldwide. The solution is available now in NXP’s newest stacked solution the PN65O, incorporating the bestselling [...]

NXP Semiconductors and HID Global are to introduce a global, generic Mobile Access solution for NFC-enabled mobile phones. In their view, because NFC enables the secure and convenient sharing of information from one device to another over short distances based upon existing contactless standards, it makes it ideal for deploying easy-to use mobile access control [...]

The winner of this category will awarded a CMA crystal (?) award for the best use of contactless / NFC technology within the transportation and ticketing environment. Be it public transport or even ticketing, this award is aimed at those companies who have embraced contactless / NFC technology to deliver their specific products to a [...]

What if your washing machine could detect what you’ve put in the laundry and adjust its own settings automatically? Showcased at Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany, NXP Semiconductors demonstrated its RFID- and NFC-enabled smart washing machine featuring “advanced yet practical” wireless functionality (their words – my wife thinks differently…). The most popular feature of the demo [...]

NXP Semiconductors’s identification technology is to enables a new enhanced version of the popular OpenWays mobile hotel key service. OpenWays Mobile Key accelerates the check-in process allowing the guests to bypass the check-in, receive their room number and use their mobile phone as the hotel room key. Through its work with NXP OpenWays can now [...]

NXP Semiconductors N.V. have revealed that several NFC service providers and application providers will showcase their NFC services which utilize NXP’s mobile NFC technology, NFC tags, and contactless readers at the NFC Café, a concept café within NXP’s Mobile World Congress booth. Providing NFC apps is equally important as the deployment of handsets and reader [...]