Things to do today: Buy bread. Pick up suit at the cleaner’s. Return gift at the mall. Stop in at the NFC tag store? That’s right. Japanese Fukumi Corp. has opened the world’s first retail outlet for NFC tags and applications. Based in Tokyo, the RFID/NFC Real Touch Shop offers NFC tags and applications, NFC [...]
It is estimated that 40 million cell phones with embedded NFC capability will be in the hands of consumers by the end of 2011. NFC Bootcamp recently held its first educational session in New York City. The group generated this video from the event that summarizes the session. Click here to view the video. [...]
Everyone is waiting for the iPhone to eventually be equipped with near-field communication. Aside from being a boost to the contactless payment movement, an NFC-enabled smart phone could also store vital information that would allow for a hardware failure to be quickly diagnosed by Apple, even if the handset is nonfunctional. An article in last [...]
Could NFC technology make the role of librarian obsolete? A new NFC-based solution demonstrated at the 100th German Librarian Day in Berlin certainly suggests so. The prototype of the first-ever mobile SelfCheck features an NFC capable smart phone that makes it possible to borrow straight from the library shelf. Users can check out, extend the lending period [...]
Is this the beginning of the end for cash? Maybe so. In an indication that contactless payment continues to gain acceptance in North America, U.S. Bank, a division of U.S. Bancorp, introduced its VITAband payment system this week, a wristband that combines contactless payment technology with emergency contact and medical information. The VITAband allows customers [...]
It’s still too early to tell how just quickly NFC-enabled smart phones will be deployed around the globe, but some predictions call for 100 million being in use by the end of this year, with 500 million deployed globally by 2015. Although the forecast remains unclear, Avery Dennison isn’t wasting any time preparing for the [...]