The start of the Mobile Asia Congress in Macau this week saw the GSM Association (GSMA) once again calling for the rapid adoption of Near Field Communications (NFC) by building the technology into mobile phones. The idea is to get NFC onto every mobile phone out there, where it can form the building block to facilitate the creation of a contactless mobile payment industry. It doesn't take a g...

The GSM Association (GSMA) has called for the adoption of RFID technology--known as Near Field Communications (NFC)--into mobile phones for the purpose of contactless payment. In a statement, GSMA chief executive Rob Conway extolled the "huge latent demand" for such services, noting that an industry-wide NFC push would be sure to reap significant gains where the economies of scale is concerned.&nb...

Global trade group the GSM Association is calling for full Near Field Communications functionality to be built into commercial mobile handsets beginning mid-2009 in an effort to accelerate adoption and deployment of mobile payment services. The GSMA also outlined its support for the European Telecommunications Standards Institute-endorsed "Single Wire Protocol" standard to provide the interface be...

ESPOO, Finland - We've spoken a few times about Near Field Communications (NFC). We even caught up with Jeremy Belostock, the main guy in NFC at Nokia, back in April (video). We've been meaning to get back to him for an update. Instead, we managed to get our hands on a video interview (below) by Mark Durrant, from the Way We Live Next team here at Nokia.* He asks Jeremy to explain how NFC works an...

Mobile money transfer and contactless NFC (Near Field Communications) will together account for 50 percent of the overall mobile payment market globally by 2013, (based on the gross transaction values), according to Juniper Research's new Mobile Payments Study. The Juniper report found that the mobile payments market, which is today is dominated by purchases of digital goods such as ringtones...

Mobile money transfer and contactless NFC (Near Field Communications) will together account for 50% of the overall mobile payment market globally by 2013, (based on the gross transaction values), according to Juniper Research’s new Mobile Payments Study. The Juniper report found that the mobile payments market, which is today is dominated by purchases of digital goods

Mobile money transfer and contactless NFC (Near Field Communications) will together account for 50% of the overall mobile payment market globally by 2013, (based on the gross transaction values), according to Juniper Research's new Mobile Payments Study. The Juniper report found that the mobile payments market, which is today is dominated by purchases of digital goods such as ringtones, music, and...

Mobile money transfer and contactless NFC (Near Field Communications) will together account for 50% of the overall mobile payment market globally by 2013, (based on the gross transaction values), according to Juniper Research’s new Mobile Payments Study. The Juniper report found that the mobile payments market, which is today is dominated by purchases of digital goods

More than 400 million mobile subscribers worldwide will embrace mobile ticketing services by 2013 according to market analysis firm Juniper Research, which adds that trials and pilots are still behind the curve due to issues including bar code reading, the absence of reader infrastructure and the availability of Near Field Communications-optimized handsets. Juniper reports the travel and transport...

The results from Europe's largest trial of Near Field Communications (NFC) technology on a mobile phone reveal a consumer demand for such services. Nine out of ten trialists were happy using NFC technology on a mobile phone and 78% said they would be interested in using contactless services if available. Convenience, ease-of-use and the status of having such an innovative device were seen as the m...