Philippe Chiu has been sleeping for three hours a night, he says, for six months. He has taken to power-napping, like he is “at college again”, he says. “Twenty minutes gets you three hours. And it works – because it is good sleep. So,...
NXP is buying Marvell's Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other wireless connectivity business assets for $1.76 billion, in a move that NXP says will boost its ability to offer turnkey offerings in its target IoT, automotive and industrial markets, as well as in communication infrastructure.
NXP will...
Thousands of people pour into and out of high-rise office buildings each day, and each must be kept safe and secure. Two of the most significant challenges in accomplishing this are guard tour management and ensuring that all fire and safety equipment complies with...
AUSTIN, Texas--Smart city deployments come in many forms with one of the most simple methods of imbuing a physical object with connectivity and interactive access being a contactless beacon.
Connecthings, founded in 2007, is looking to contactless beacons—think QR codes, NFC, Bluetooth—as a way to...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
Mobile data on...
Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) is a standards-based low power wide area (LPWA) technology developed to enable a wide range of new IoT devices and services. According to the GSMA, NB-IoT significantly improves the power consumption of user devices, system capacity and spectrum efficiency, especially in...
5G and IoT will continue to be a strong focus of the mobile telecom space in 2017, with antennas expected to be central to ongoing development work.
Editor’s Note: With 2017 virtually upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from across...
RIO DE JANEIRO – Payments using near field communication technology have been a promise for a while, but until now no application has been popular or good enough to replace plastic cards. With about 4,000 points of sale equipped with NFC, Visa is using the Rio...
Technology developments play a big role in transforming the Rio Olympics, whether improving result accuracy or increasing athletes’ performances. The next transformation and even greater impact are expected to come from the massive use of sensors combined with big data analytics.
Almost 20% of the...
AUSTIN, Texas – Smart city deployments come in many forms, with one of the most simple methods of imbuing a physical object with connectivity and interactive access being a contactless beacon.
Connecthings, founded in 2007, is looking at contactless beacons – think QR codes, NFC, Bluetooth...
Telia Carrier will provide backhaul and interconnect to Ericsson’s device connection platform via a dedicated global IoT backbone.
Ericsson has selected Telia Carrier for the provision of a global dedicated IoT backbone for its device connection platform (DCP). IoT operators will now be able...
One2Touch notes various NFC technology use cases
There’s no doubt today’s consumers are mobile, a lifestyle that calls for dependable and continuous communication. As we increasingly rely day-to-day on our mobile devices, near field communication is a short-range wireless connectivity technology that supports the mobile...
The NFC Forum has released one new and three candidate specifications for near-field communications, which target improved radio frequency support, better interoperability and a new tag operation format that opens up new use cases, according to the organization.
The new NFC standard deals with NFC...
In the test and measurement world this week, Keysight Technologies' T3111S system for near-field communications conformance testing was chosen by China Telecom Corporation Test labs in Guangzhou, China, for its lab there. The system focuses on radio frequency and protocol measurements for NFC, which is a...
Near-field communications technology is expected to see rapid growth in the near future, and Apple made a big splash last year with its NFC-enabled Apple Pay feature for mobile payments. And Google has its Google Wallet option for NFC-enabled Android smartphones. Rumors abound that...
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NXP Semiconductors made headlines this week on reports that Apple has partnered with the Dutch company for NFC (near field communication). An NFC chip inside the new iPhone would mean the smartphone could be used for contactless payments, replacing a credit card in...
Deutsche Telekom has begun a quest to convince its cash-loving countrymen to accept mobile payment. The carrier this week launched MyWallet in Germany, allowing its customers to make purchases with their smartphones―and the offer included a sweetner, an introductory bonus of up to €40...
In an aggressive move, telecom giant Vodafone is deploying its m-payment service throughout Europe. The Vodafone Wallet, which launched is Spain earlier this month, comes to Germany in the next few days, followed by the Netherlands, U.K. and Italy in the spring.
The London-based carrier...
Mobile payments have had a long and tortured history, with analysts expecting the market for such services to have hit the upswing, only to see such predictions pushed off again and again due to any number of challenges. While the mobile payment market has...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.
It is certain that Near Field Communications (NFC) will become the standard for the replacement of...
Two major telecom operators in Brazil announced that they have started trials using near field communication (NFC) technologies for mobile payments. TIM has partnered with Itaú, MasterCard and Gemalto for its pilot project, while Vivo has chosen Bradesco and Cielo. Itaú and Bradesco are two of...
Mobile near field communication is a hot topic today, with a variety of players gearing up to enter NFC payment, loyalty and couponing, and advertising markets. Mobile NFC widens the possibilities
Price pressures ensure the survival of the feature phone: Although the feature-phone category will continue to play second fiddle to the smartphone in 2013, price pressures will secure
