Moving Forward: All BlackBerry Devices to Sport NFC Tech

Release Date 2 Mar, 2011 in Mobile Magazine

Future BlackBerrys to support wireless card payments; Death of the debit card? ZDNet (blog) - Zack Whittaker - 2 Mar, 2011 Future BlackBerry devices will contain NFC technology, which will allow you to wirelessly make card transactions with your phone, instead of using your debit or credit card. Zack Whittaker is a British ...
Give Away Apps With Your BlackBerry RollingStone.com (blog) - Scott Steinberg - 2 Mar, 2011 BlackBerry smartphone users will soon be able to gift apps as birthday presents, everyday pick-me-ups and high-tech ways to show your love (or your lack of things to do at work). Manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) recently announced plans to add ...
RIM to put near-field communications in 'virtually all' its tech Washington Post - Hayley Tsukayama - 2 Mar, 2011 Time to learn a new acronym. NFC, or near-field communications, is popping up on the lips of some of the tech industry's top players and it likely won't be long before consumers see it in their favorite products. ...
'Virtually all' upcoming BlackBerrys to use NFC tech ZDNet UK (blog) - David Meyer - 2 Mar, 2011 Most new BlackBerry devices from RIM from now on will include near-field communication capabilities, the company's UK managing director has said. Although RIM chief Jim Balsillie already revealed at ...
Bank of America retrofits BlackBerrys with NFC Register - Bill Ray - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎ Bank of America is bringing pay-by-tap to the masses, or at least a small trial group of BlackBerry users, by using a removable card and a replacement battery. That's significant as it means that the latest ...
	RIM comments a little more nuanced than 'Smartphones: RIP' TECH.BLORGE.com - John Lister - 2 Mar, 2011 Glance at some stories about Research In Motion today and you might be forgiven for thinking the company was declaring the death of the smartphone. But look a little closer and it's clear the company is just playing with words to hype up ...
	Moving Forward: All BlackBerry Devices to Sport NFC Tech Mobile Magazine - Michael Kwan - 2 Mar, 2011 ven though the new payment system at Starbucks is based on a barcode scanner, near field communications (NFC) will really represent the future of mobile payment. And RIM wants to be all over this thing. ...
RIM: New BlackBerry devices will have NFC ElectricPig.co.uk - Jennifer Allan - 2 Mar, 2011 UPDATE: RIM has been in touch and would like to clarify that “many of their devices” will come with NFC. Was it a slip of the tongue, or an honest mistake? We've asked for clarification on what this means for consumers. ...
RIM Confirms NFC Technology for BlackBerry Devices IT Business Edge (blog) - Ainsley Jones - 2 Mar, 2011 By date: Some of the most popular apps in BlackBerry App World to help you through your day. Research In Motion confirmed its intentions to incorporate near-field communication technologies into its future smartphones and tablets. ...
Tablets will redefine smartphone market, claims RIM exec StrategyEye - Andrew McDonald - 2 Mar, 2011 Research In Motion's UK Managing Director, Stephen Bates, claims the emergence of the tablet computer market will redefine the ways consumers use their smartphones. Speaking at the Westminster eForum Seminar on the future of mobile ...
Future BlackBerry Devices To Sport NFC Technology eWEEK Europe UK - 2 Mar, 2011 All future BlackBerry devices will have built-in Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, in response to the growing demand for mobile payments. According to Stephen Bates, managing director of Research In Motion (RIM) in the UK, the NFC capability ...
	RIM: NFC PlayBook coming this year' Silicon.com - Natasha Lomas - 2 Mar, 2011 BlackBerry maker RIM will be putting near-field communications (NFC) into almost all devices it launches this year, its UK MD has revealed. Speaking at a Westminster eForum keynote seminar in London, Stephen Bates ...
RIM to use NFC technologies in future BlackBerry devices T3 - Luke Johnson - 2 Mar, 2011 Canadian tech giant Research In Motion (RIM) has revealed it intendeds to incorporate Near Field Communication (NFC) technologies into all future smartphones and tablets. Following claims RIM chief Jim Balsillie made at Mobile World Congress last month ...
	New RIM BlackBerry Models To Have NFC Coolest Gadget Reviews - 2 Mar, 2011 Stephen Bates who is with Research In Motion UK has gone on the record to confirm that almost all future RIM products will be deployed with near field communication or NFC. Essentially, we can expect not just new BlackBerry smartphones to have NFC but ...
RIM: The smartphone is dead, long live the tablet Know Your Mobile (blog) - Richard Goodwin - 2 Mar, 2011 2011 is set to be a big year for tablet devices, but could tablets replace smartphones as the number one mobile device? Stephen Bates, RIM's UK MD, seems to think so. "We're all now used to having smartphones and the instantaneous appeal of social ...
	RIM Planning Near Field Communication Technology In All New BlackBerry's Gadget news and reviews - 2 Mar, 2011 The Managing Director of RIM in the UK, Stephen Bates, told journalists today at the eForum in Westminster that NFC or Near Field Communication technology would be available in all their future BlackBerry smartphones. He outlined their plans for NFC ...
HTC Incredible S review, white iPad 2 and BlackBerry NFC: Lunchtime Lowdown ElectricPig.co.uk - Ben Sillis - 2 Mar, 2011 It's been a hectic morning in gadgetry: as well as setting loose a world first review of a new HTC Android phone, we've been scouring the show floor at CeBIT, and hitting up the Westminster eForum for the latest from RIM. ...
Bank of America launches NFC m-payment trial for BlackBerry users (USA) Wireless Federation - 2 Mar, 2011 Bank of America, US financial services provider is planning to invite BlackBerry users to try a mobile payment program powered by NFC chips. The project is scheduled for launch in Spring. Trial participants need either a Visa debit card or a MasterCard ...
	RIM and Bank of America partner for NFC Smart Gorillas - Heather McLean - 2 Mar, 2011 Bank of America has selected some of its customers to take part in a trial for its new NFC-based mobile wallet using BlackBerry smartphones. According to the Boy Genius Report (BGR) website, which shows official BoA documents on the ...
	RIM says tablets will relegate smartphones to 'pure communications' TechRadar UK - Kate Solomon - 2 Mar, 2011 Smartphones' all singing all dancing days may be over, according to RIM's UK MD Stephen Bates. Despite handsets' rapid technological evolution, from improvements in display quality to turbo-charged multi-core processing power, ...
RIM confirms NFC for nearly all future BlackBerry devices V3.co.uk - Dan Worth - 2 Mar, 2011 RIM's UK managing director has reiterated the firm's commitment to match the industry trend for near-field communications (NFC) by incorporating the technology into virtually all of its future devices. Stephen Bates talked up the capabilities of NFC at ...
'Virtually all' BlackBerrys to support NFC technology in the future Top10.com - Dew Alam - 2 Mar, 2011 Near Field Communications, or NFC for short, is all the rage these days, with some of the biggest players in the market already embracing the tech with open arms, and legs, and BlackBerry is not one to be left out in the cold as it confirms that ...
	RIM teams with US bank on NFC payments Mobile Business Briefing - 2 Mar, 2011 Bank of America (BoA), the leading US retail bank, has reportedly started inviting select customers to trial its new NFC-based 'Mobile Wallet' using BlackBerry smartphones. According to the Boy Genius Report (BGR) website, which appears to show ...
RIM trials mobile wallet ITWeb (blog) - Alex Kayle - 2 Mar, 2011 Research In Motion (RIM) has partnered with Bank of America to begin a mobile wallet trial using near field communications (NFC) in its BlackBerry devices, reports Near Field Communications World. ...
RIM and Bank of America in NFC trial Rethink Wireless - Caroline Gabriel - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎ Several major US operators are collaborating on the Isis payments venture, seeking to bypass financial institutions and web players, to take pole position in the mobile money chain. But the traditional banks are equally active in ...
Rumor Mill: RIM, Bank of America team up on mobile wallet trials FierceWireless - Phil Goldstein - ‎Feb 28, 2011‎ Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) has partnered with Bank of America to conduct mobile wallet trials, according to the blog Boy Genius Report. According to the blog, which said it obtained communications the bank sent to select customers inviting them ...
	New BlackBerry Devices To Feature NFC Capabilities Geeky gadgets - Roland Hutchinson - 2 Mar, 2011 It looks like RIM is planning to build NFC (Near Field Communication) into its new range of smartphones, according to Stephen Bates, who is RIM's Managing Director here in the UK. Bates was speaking at a Westminster eForum on smartphones, tablets, ...