Since April 2, 2010, you can pay at Starbucks Coffee with your Taipei Metro Card (EasyCard).
Wait… you can also pay in the 4,500 7-ELEVEN stores in Taiwan, in the 2,500 Family Mart store or 1,500 OK-Mart stores, at the parking lots, directly on the park meter (!), in the taxi, at MacDonald’s, at the movies, [...]

“NOW SAMPLING: NXP’s PN544 complies with the SWP and HCI specifications”
NXP announced this June 2nd that their PN544 NFC chipset is finally ready and available for sampling. That is the piece of information that the entire NFC ecosystem was waiting for since the GSMA officially announced that they backed Gemalto’s proposal to turn the SIM [...]

The French press was relaying the news yesterday that the 3 French mobile carriers had settled an alliance with major financial institutions to launch a common NFC initiative called ERGOSUM. Now it’s for real, France is the fast mover towards a NFC world in Europe!

CARTES 2008 as an indicator for NFC’s emergence in 2009.

Observers keep scrutinizing the Japanese market to discover new mobile user behaviors, and they praise Mobile Felica as THE example to follow for the (future) expansion of NFC (Near-Field Communication). Indeed, figures of the penetration of the Osaifu-Keitai (Felica mobile wallet) are quite impressive with about 25 million phones equipped with the application. More impressive [...]