One of our colleague sent me this link the other day and told me he wanted to buying this phone, after all the NFC phones in the office that had failed to tempt him.
Sony Ericsson Smart Tag

It’s a nice commercial I have to say, and good work for Sony Ericsson. I think it is a [...]

It is no longer a picture of future life. Taiwanese users can call taxi and collect loyalty points with Nokia’s new NFC phones since Mid-September!
It has been a (long) while since last article. Easycard continues to gain popularity after the card issuance volume surpassed number of habitants in February, now about 27 million of cards [...]

Toro is finalist for the Sesames awards at Cartes 2009 category mobile

“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 [...]

Ping-Ping, launched by Belgacom in March, is a very smart move towards NFC mobile services.

Taipei City in innovating with the (very fast) deployment of the “U-bike” system, almost identical to the Vélib‘ system launched in Paris with great success on 15 July 2007. The service provider is Taishin Bank (!), the bikes themselves are manufactured by local world leader Giant and the payment system is managed by TSCC. The [...]

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!

GSMA mobile innovation award APAC Tournament is approaching, and TORO is among several innovators to be listed on GSMA website, We are positive we will be selected to compete this year, wish us luck! You can see TORO’s profile here.

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