From NFC World
 | The search giant's new social networking project includes built-in support for tag reading, letting users with NFC phones simply read a tag to post information stored in it to their Google+ account. |
 | The Norwegian bank and mobile network operator have contracted Giesecke & Devrient to provide them with a turnkey NFC solution for a mobile payments trial that will involve a dozen merchant locations in Oslo. |
 | Banks and mobile network operators should work together on a mobile payments business model that plays to both their strengths, says Citi's Dickson Chu. |
 | "At this stage, we will not be progressing with microSD as a contactless payment technology platform," says the Australian banking giant. |
 | The hi-tech version of a traditional murder mystery game uses NFC phones and tags to allow participants to discover clues hidden around a venue and to accuse their choice of suspect. |
 | The planned international rollout of NFC services to Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile and Era mobile networks will use bespoke NFC SIMs developed by Giesecke & Devrient. The new SIMs will be "functionally expanded" and "go beyond the standardised NFC functions". |
 | The hotel room key market leader, part of the Assa Abloy group which recently ran an NFC trial at the Clarion Hotel Stockholm, has now brought the technology to market. |
 | The Chinese handset manufacturer will integrate Inside's NFC technology into its GSM and next-generation TD-SCDMA smart phone platform, which is based on the Android operating system. |
 | "We need to own the market space and prevent market differentiation before any other party enters the market with enough money,” says Peter Van Leeuwen of KPN, a partner in the Dutch NFC joint venture that includes both banks and mobile operators. |
 | From this summer, subscribers to the UK's Quick Tap NFC service will be able to use their phones to make payments in Nice, home of the French Cityzi NFC service. |
NFC handsets: Find out which phones are available now, what's coming soon — and what's around the corner.
• Mobile Payment China 2011 | 12-13 July | Shanghai, China
• NFC World Congress | 19-21 September | Sophia Antipolis, France
