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Rogers rolling out suretap NFC payment service next week
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Rogers rolling out suretap NFC payment service next week

Posted by Adam Zeis on 10 Oct 2012 10:51 am
According to a sales bulletin issued to stores, Rogers will be rolling out a new NFC mobile payment service dubbed suretap on October 15th. The partnership with CIBC was announced back in May and will be available in just a few days. Suretap will allow eligible customers with an NFC enabled device (Bold 9900 or Curve 9360) to pay for "small ticket items" with their CIBC credit card at...
Introducing the SkyPark Café - The first BlackBerry equipped cafe in India
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Introducing the SkyPark Café - The first BlackBerry equipped cafe in India

Posted by DJ Reyes on 6 Oct 2012 5:33 pm
When I think about a cafe nowadays, I imagine people chilling, sometimes with friends catching up, or alone surrounded by laptops and gadgets working hard or just browsing, all with a mug of coffee sitting not too far. Then again, that could just be me. The SkyPark Café in Hyderabad, India, however, wants to go a little further. It will become the first BlackBerry equipped cafe in India. The...
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More BlackBerry Tag spots hit the air

Posted by Adam Zeis on 5 Oct 2012 9:47 am
A while back we saw this BlackBerry Tag commercial hit YouTube, and now a few more have arrived on the channel as well. They all take on different aspects of BlackBerry Tag like sharing games, photos and music. While all of the spots are a bit on the campy side, I do find them quite amusing. It's doubtful these will be running anywhere mainstream at all (if you see them let us know) but you...
RIM hosting three new BlackBerry developer webcasts - Come learn all about NFC!
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RIM hosting three new BlackBerry developer webcasts - Come learn all about NFC!

Posted by Bla1ze on 28 Sep 2012 4:07 pm
If you're a BlackBerry developer looking to learn more about NFC and how you can integrate it into your applications, RIM wants to help you. Kicking off on October 4th, 2012, a new series of webcasts will be held where you can learn all about NFC starting with the basics and moving into more advanced stuff such as integration within BlackBerry 7 and BlackBerry 10. In total, there will be...
MasterCard releases NFC SDK, includes integration for BlackBerry 7
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MasterCard releases NFC SDK, includes integration for BlackBerry 7

Posted by Bla1ze on 17 Sep 2012 4:18 pm
While NFC is still expanding across the globe, MasterCard today took one huge step to help that process along. They've now released their Mobile PayPass UI SDK to developers and included with that, is support for BlackBerry 7 devices. The Mobile PayPass UI SDK includes all the tools needed to create contactless payment applications including: API Code Libraries API Specification...
HID Global launches Secure Identity Services for provisioning and managing NFC credentials
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HID Global launches Secure Identity Services for provisioning and managing NFC credentials

Posted by Adam Zeis on 7 Sep 2012 10:55 am
HID Global has announced today the launch of their Secure Identity Services for NFC credential provisioning and management. The new tools allow users to have web-based access to managing information for traditional badges on plastic cards, tokens and for digital credentials that can be carried on NFC-enabled smartphones. "With our HID Secure Identity Services platform, customers have all...
Isis mobile payment system soon ready to make use of NFC on your BlackBerry
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Isis mobile payment system soon ready to make use of NFC on your BlackBerry

Posted by Bla1ze on 28 Aug 2012 9:13 pm
Remember long ago, we told you all about Isis? It's the carrier back solution for mobile payments using NFC. At the time the news came out, many folks were waiting for NFC powered BlackBerry devices to arrive and eventually they did. Some carriers though, oddly enough, those supporters of Isis decided to block NFC on the devices from use. Now though it appears Isis is ramping up their...
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BlackBerry Music Gateway Review

Posted by Adam Zeis on 30 Jul 2012 3:58 pm
The new BlackBerry Music Gateway connects to your existing stereo or speaker system letting you wirelessly stream music from your BlackBerry smartphone or other Bluetooth enabled device. This newly updated version features a slimmer design, expanded connectivity and of course, NFC. A revamped version of the original BlackBerry Remote Stereo Gateway, the new model brings everything up to date by...
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Prototype gumball machine dispenses mystery apps via NFC for a quarter

Posted by Michelle Haag on 24 Jul 2012 6:49 pm
I'm a sucker for a low-cost mystery, I admit it. Whether it's a mystery tee off one of those one-shirt-a-day sites or the Woot Bag o' Crap, it's really hard for me to pass up the potential awesomeness that could be delivered right to me. It's no wonder that I got super excited when I saw this intriguing invention using NFC from the folks at Razorfish. Utilizing an old gumball machine, an NFC...
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How to share your apps with NFC and BlackBerry App World

Posted by James Richardson on 18 Jul 2012 5:03 pm
We have had Near Field Communications (NFC) available on a BlackBerry smartphone since last year when the Bold 9900 was released. Now it comes as standard on most of the devices that run BlackBerry 7 but until now there hasn't really been much call to use it. Recently we saw a new update to BlackBerry App World and included in the update was the option to share your app list via NFC....

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