NFC or Near Field Communications in Mobile phones has never gone mainstream due to the very poor adoption by handset makers.  Its practically very difficult to get hold of a mobile handset supported NFC even ...

We've already seen Visa team up with DeviceFidelity to deliver NFC payments via microSD card, and it looks like they now have some company from First Data and Tyfone, who have just announced a partnership of their own to help bring the technology to the cellphone-toting masses. At the heart of their system is Tyfone's SideTap card made by NXP Semiconductors (pictured after the break), wh...

NFC only works when there are readers in every shop. Maybe Nokia should pay for them. Mobile Entertainment is the leading community site for all professionals working within the international mobile content industry. We bring you the latest news, views and analysis from this fast moving entertainment sector, complementing our flagship monthly printed magazine and specialist events.

But not saying how, or when Barclaycard has let slip plans to deploy NFC-enabled mobile phones, along with Orange, before the end of 2010.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Convego Air Mobile, the sticker for contactless payment from Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), picked up an award at the recent CIT Golden Card awards for the ‘Most Innovative Payment Card’. Organized since 2002 by the Institute for International Research, the...

This week the Carnival of the Mobilists – the weekly line-up of the best blogs and bloggers on all things mobile – comes to us via Andy Favell over at MobiThinking, a valuable resource with a good selection of mobile advertising stats, reports and white papers. Between Andy's outreach for old and new Mobilists to submit posts –and my eager tweets (@COTMobilists) encouraging ...

PC World - After a pilot in Bangalore, Citibank is planning to expand its mobile payments program, using mobile phones with NFC (Near Field Communications), to other cities in India and around the world, a company executive said on Wednesday.

The technology that allows for secure transfers of sensitive information over small distances gets its own brand name and beautiful logo... Photos:

The are now cell-phone enabled memorial products called RosettaStones that enable cemetery visitors to access text and photos by touching a cell phone against a cemetery headstone. RosettStone products are available as a palm-sized stone tablet or as a coin-sized stick-on polymer tag called a Data Tag that adheres directly to a headstone. The text and photo associated with each Data Tag is uploade...

NFC, the technology, is doing great, but NFC, the name, isnt. It cant be trademarked, and no one really owns it, so the NFC-Forum has decided to invent N-Mark. The new N-Mark logo will become standard icon youll see at cash points, in shops, and anywhere else NFC technology can be used. Similar to how