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Wednesday 27 August 2014
Smart card shipments to rise 2.1 billion units by 2019, says IHS
Global unit shipments of smart cards are expected to rise 2.1 billion from 2014-2019-about equal to the combined populations of China, the US, Indonesia and Brazil, according to IH...
Friday 25 July 2014
Chunghwa Telecom NFC TSM system passes Visa certification
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) on July 24 announced that it has obtained certification from Visa for its NFC TSM (trusted service manager) system and become a Visa approved vendor to provide...
Thursday 24 July 2014
Google to incorporate NFC functionality into Android
Google will incorporate TSM (trusted service manager) software and applications into the Android platform after Apple reportedly has made NFC functionality a standard for its speculated...
Wednesday 16 July 2014
Taiwan market: NFC mobile payment services to be launched by end of 2014
A TSM (trusted service management) provider jointly established by Taiwan's five 4G mobile telecom carriers and EasyCard Corporation will launch NFC (near field communication) smartphone-based...
Tuesday 3 June 2014
Handling the ever-increasing demand for wireless: Q&A with Broadcom VP Rahul Patel
With the IT market shifting from PCs to mobile devices, there has been an increased appetite for support for Wi-Fi and wireless technologies such as Bluetooth and near field communication...
Wednesday 5 March 2014
MediaTek expected to speed up development of feature chips
MediaTek is expected to ramp up investments to develop peripheral chips to enrich smartphones such as wireless charging, NFC, and fingerprint recognition which in return will jack...
Wednesday 26 February 2014
Asia NFC Alliance formed at 2014 MWC
Taiwan-based Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has announced the formation of Asia NFC (near field communication) Alliance with Japan-based KDDI, South Korea-based SK Planet and Hong Kong-based...
Friday 14 February 2014
Taiwan NFC market to take off in 3Q15, says Smart Catch
Demand for smartphone-based NFC services in the Taiwan market is expected to take off in the third quarter of 2015, according to Taiwan-based TSM (trusted service management) platform...
Wednesday 29 January 2014
Digitimes Research: MediaTek hikes turn-key value by virtue of Hotknot
Why has MediaTek stepped into NFC (near field communication) technology? Digitimes Research thinks that there are two main motivations, one to increase the exclusiveness of its platforms...
Monday 30 December 2013
Hotknot technology makes touchscreen no longer just touchscreen
At the end of November 2013, MediaTek announced a new near field communication technology called Hotknot, which does not require NFC chips or antennas to work, and the technology...
Thursday 29 August 2013
Weltrend 3Q13 sales to rise on demand for NFC phone chips and LED driver ICs
IC design house Weltrend Semiconductor is expected to see its third-quarter revenues climb to the highest quarterly level for 2013, thanks to growing shipments of its NFC phone chips...
Tuesday 27 August 2013
Sony introduces NEX-5T camera with Wi-Fi, NFC and fast hybrid AF
Sony has announced the release of its NEX-5T compact system camera that comes equipped with large-sensor image quality, speedy auto focus (AF) and NFC (near field communication) one-touch...
Thursday 25 July 2013
NFC, MEMS sensors, and gesture recognition the big smartphone differentiators in 2013, says ABI Research
Accelerometers, vision-based gesture recognition, gyroscopes, and NFC are predicted to be the feature set big winners in smartphones in 2013, according to ABI Research. "Gesture...
Monday 8 July 2013
Taiwan market: FET plans to start NFC operation at end of 1Q14
Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), one of the three largest mobile telecom carriers in Taiwan, on July 8 announced it will soon begin trial operation of NFC (near field communication)...
Tuesday 29 January 2013
Taiwan market: TSM expected to be incorporated by end of June
Trusted Service Management (TSM), a platform jointly established by five mobile telecom carriers and EasyCard Corporation to provide NFC (near field communication)-based mobile payment...
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