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Orange UK trials mobile ticketing in Cambridgeshire
Orange UK is in the midst of a mobile ticketing trial with rail and bus operator, Stagecoach. The two companies unveiled the mobile contactless transport ticketing system, which could lead to a nationwide rollout across select bus and rail services during next year. Trial participants in Cambridgeshire, each of which got a Quick Tap enabled mobile handset, are able to receive, store and validate their bus tickets using nothing but their mobile phone. Quick Tap is the umbrella name for Orange’s NFC services, which we’ve already covered in the past, … Read more
Dusan Belic
Video: Nokia accidentally announces the Lumia 610 NFC
Someone in Nokia’s marketing department is about to get into a lot of trouble. The company’s YouTube channel accidentally posted a video demoing a new product, the Lumia 610 NFC. Said video was pulled down immediately, but that didn’t stop the guys at Nokia Buff from downloading it to their local machine and then reuploading it for all to watch. What you see below is basically the exact same Lumia 610 that was announced back in February at Mobile World Congress, but with an NFC chip inside. We don’t know … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Berg Insight: Shipments of NFC-enabled handsets reached 30 million units in 2011
Berg Insight is out with a new report, looking at the shipments of NFC-enabled devices. According to the research company, global sales of such products increased ten-fold in 2011 to 30 million units and are set to reach 700 million units in 2016, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 87.8%. At the moment, major industry players are competing with each other to use the technology for enabling mobile payments, but it [technology] also has other use cases like reading tags and easy pairing of devices. Berg reminded … Read more
Dusan Belic
MTI launches portable RFID Reader for Android devices
Microelectronics Technology Inc. (MTI), which is a global leader in the supply of UHF RFID readers, unveiled the MINI ME RFID reader for Android Ice Cream Sandwich devices, allowing users to read and write all EPC Class 1 Gen2 compliant tags at close range. Alongside the device itself, the company will also provide a “low level command set API” that can be used with Android 4.0 SDK to create custom UHF RFID software apps. The MTI RFID ME GUI app can be downloaded for free from Android Market and can … Read more