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| Swiss Farm Store Tries RFID-enabled Self-Serve Shopping | 02/08/2010 |
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Customers can use Near Field Communication (NFC) cell phones to access the store, obtain product information and pay for purchases. |
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| Retailer Tape à l'Oeil Finds Success With Contactless Loyalty Cards | 12/14/2009 |
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The system enables French consumers to receive and redeem discounts on purchases via NFC RFID stickers that can be attached to cell phones. |
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| RFID News Roundup | 11/19/2009 |
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IBM adds analytic app for container tracking to InfoSphere Traceability Server; Inside Contactless works on new NFC application development platform, provides tags for Taggo universal loyalty cards; ABI Research sees bright spots in RFID market; G&D rolls out cell phone sticker for contactless payments; U.S. Marine Corps taps SRA for RFID implementation; Atlantic City's Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino wins big with RFID; IPS ships new thin-film, single cell battery. |
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| Item-Level RFID Pilot Sees Major Benefits, Proves ROI | 07/07/2009 |
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Australian telecommunications provider Telstra has completed a successful item-level RFID pilot in which the company tracked 15,000 cellular phones across the supply chain to its retail outlets. The benefits were considerable, and the company may expand the rollout next year. |
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| RFID Weekly News Roundup March 19, 2009 | 03/19/2009 |
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Product releases and technology innovations highlighted this week's news, including international standards and developments that link RFID with cell phones, sensor networks, medical devices, Zigbee, ultrasound tracking and more. |
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| Think NFC is Just Ticketing and Payments? Think Again. | 11/20/2008 |
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The NFC Forum held a webinar that described how near field communication (NFC) technology could be used outside of its core ticketing and contactless payment markets. NFC-enabled cell phones and other devices could be used to securely store and exchange records, provide access control to facilities, create smart appliances and more. |
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| New tikitag Service to Use NFC to Connect Consumers | 09/17/2008 |
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tikitag is a new venture that will promote connecting consumers to web-based information, and is using near field communications (NFC) RFID technology to do it. The Alcatel-Lucent venture will soon release development kits and launch its service to support consumer and enterprise applications for NFC cell phones and other devices. |
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| Research Firm Increasingly Bearish on NFC | 04/11/2007 |
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ABI Research today announced a key forecast on the market for near field communication (NFC), the RFID-based technology that will enable a wide variety of contactless commerce via consumer cell phones. By 2012, just under 300 million phones will be equipped with NFC, or about 20 percent of the global market. |
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| What the Motorola-Symbol Deal Means for RFID | 09/20/2006 |
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Cell phone giant Motorola yesterday announced that it would buy Symbol Technologies for $3.9 billion, at a per-share price of $15. The purchase price represents roughly a 20% premium over Symbol's closing stock price Friday afternoon, before rumors of the acquisition drove it up over the weekend. |
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| Four Hurdles to Wider NFC Adoption | 04/04/2006 |
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In a release about Near Field Communication, or NFC, ABI Research of Oyster Bay, New York, has cited what it considers four leading impediments to faster adoption. NFC is an up-and-coming contactless technology by which electronic devices -- paricularly cell phones -- communicate with each other over a short range. |
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