If you’re a Rogers Wireless customer you might have seen theirs and BlackBerrys latest NFC-enabled ad. It was featured in the Rogers Connected magazine, which allowed users with an NFC capable device to instantly download a holiday gift offer, access free premium BlackBerry apps, get information on the new BB10 lineup, and download CIBC’s Suretap payments app. “This is another gr... »
RIM has taken a leading position in the proliferation of NFC-enabled applications in smartphones. After BlackBerry Tag was quietly introduced in BlackBerry 7.1, I’m happy to say that BlackBerry Tag is bigger and better in BlackBerry 10. Almost anything can be shared in the new BlackBerry 10 OS thanks to the invocation framework that RIM has baked in. In this video, I demo BlackBerry Tag by... »
Research In Motion is on the forefront of Near Field Communications (NFC) technology. Usually, I do not give promotion to unrelated products, but Vizibility’s new NFC business cards fit right in with BlackBerry. My Vizibility business card arrived a few days after I returned from BlackBerry Jam Asia. If only it had arrived before, I could have been using it to easily share my contact informa... »
Near Field Communications (NFC) is an integral part of Bangkok, Thailand. This is my first visit and I can already see NFC being used. In order to open my hotel room at Grand Millennium, I just swipe my card. Using the NFC chip within the card the door unlocks. It also acts as a ‘key’ for the lights in the room. Placing the room key in its designated slot automatically turns on the lig... »
Research In Motion has been one of the biggest pushers for Near Field Communications (NFC) in the mobile space. Select BlackBerry 7 devices already have NFC capabilities. BlackBerry 10 devices are also planned to have NFC. NFC will open the doorway to much easier mobile payments for quickly passing through the check out line at stores. However, NFC is not limited to only mobile payments. That̵... »
Back on November 2nd, N4BB was there when Rogers Wireless and CIBC chose to use BlackBerry as the Platform of choice for Canada’s first Mobile Credit Card Transaction. That historic day was just a tease! They made us consumers wait 2 whole weeks to get to try it ourselves. Over those 2 weeks, I managed to set up a CIBC credit card, and get myself a Rogers Secured NFC SIM card. And try it I... »
Two users in the BlackBerry developer support forums have written up a nice tutorial on adding NFC to a BlackBerry 10 app. Here’s the tutorial, which can alternatively be found here: Introduction This article is part of a series intended to help developers wishing to exploit NFC in their BlackBerry® 10 applications. Readers of this article should have some pre-existing knowledge of the funda... »
Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM)(TSX:RIM) today announced that it has been selected by EnStream LP, a joint venture of Bell Mobility Inc., Rogers Wireless Partnership and TELUS Communications Company, to provide its Secure Element Manager (SEM) solution to manage credentials on wireless handsets in Canada that support Near Field Communication (NFC) services. NFC is the technology that can m... »
Rogers and CIBC announced earlier this year a partnership to allow for mobile payments in Canada. The partnership will allow customers with an NFC-capable BlackBerry device to spend up to $50 on their CIBC Visa or MasterCard by simply tapping device to a terminal. Here are some details about Suretap: To use Suretap you have to be a Rogers wireless customer BlackBerry Bold 9900 and Curve 9360 are t... »
Previously we made commentary on the compromise of Android devices by way of NFC. This was due to a vulnerability discovered in the Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. “Through NFC it was possible to upload a malicious file to the device, which allowed us to gain code execution on the device and subsequently get full control over the device using a second vulnerability for privilege... »
Been wondering when the elusive BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 release would go official? If the leaked slide above is accurate, we could see the 2.1 update go live tomorrow (October 3rd). The new update will include the following: Allows PIM (Messages, Calendar, Contacts) to be viewed in portrait orientation PIM – Deep Folder Hierarchy. Previously, if a customer had multiple nested folders within ema... »
At the past USecWest’s Mobile Pwn2Own competition a startling revelation was discovered about Near Field Communications (NFC). The technology can be used to install malicious software which can compromise all of the data on the infected device. MWR Labs demonstrated the exploit on a Samsung Galaxy S3. Think of the attack in this scenario: “a pickpocket walking around with a phone loade... »
Following up to the huge marketing blitz Research In Motion is conducting in India, a new BlackBerry Tag commercial has launched. The last Tag commercial we saw was a bit humorous, whereas the new one shows further the power of NFC for sharing all kinds of things. This is similar marketing that we’ve seen Samsung use for the Galaxy S3. Hopefully with the launch of BlackBerry 10 we will see R... »
BlackBerry was the first to be approved for MasterCard mobile payments. You should listen to the interview we recently conducted with RIM’s Senior Product Manager of NFC. MasterCard has now released its PayPass Developer Toolkit with BlackBerry OS 7 support. The toolkit provides app libraries, guides, and sample apps to aid companies that want to develop their own mobile payment app. Rather ... »
[powerpress] Subscribe to N4BB Audio Show podcast RSS Feed directly or in iTunes Yesterday, we had a very special guest on the N4BB Audio Show. Geoffrey MacGillivray, the Senior Product Manager of NFC for Research In Motion, was on the show to tell us about the future of Near Field Communications (NFC) on BlackBerry products. BlackBerry has already accomplished some superb goals with NFC. BlackBer... »
The upcoming Apple iPhone 5 was rumored to have Near Field Communications (NFC). However, as it turns out those rumors didn’t pan out and the next iPhone will still not feature NFC capabilities. Apparently having NFC wasn’t even possible on the iPhone 5. The reason is due to the iPhone 5’s all-aluminum-and-glass body, which would block information from being transmitted to a terminal, ... »
Near Field Communications (NFC) enabled BlackBerry smartphones have been leading the way in mobile payments and RIM is bringing that leadership into the enterprise. BlackBerry was first to be certified for Visa mobile payments, first to be certified for MasterCard for mobile payments, and now BlackBerry is first for physical access badge replacement with HID Global; the world’s leading provider of... »
Ever been stuck at the bar just waiting to pay your bill. There must be a better way. Well, the guys over at Taab are developing a new NFC payment system to speed things up. No more fumbling with cash, credit/debit cards or anything like that to split the bill. With Taab, you can split the bill with friends and share items with just a tap using an NFC-enabled smartphone. The app is already ava... »
After more than a year, and amid the drama, speculation and buzz surrounding BlackBerry 10, Research in Motion has rather silently delivered on their promise of a 4G BlackBerry PlayBook. Putting aside the improved processor, 4G radio, and NFC, you’d be hard-pressed to find any difference between it and the original PlayBook. Yet, this could be considered a milestone in itself, marking RIM’s fir... »
Research In Motion finally released the 4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook throughout Canada, yesterday. One of the features we saw rumored to be available on the 4G PlayBook was NFC. However, it does not currently seem to be available. While we’ve confirmed the NFC hardware is there, we probably won’t see the feature be made available until the release of the tablet version of BlackBerry 10. ... »
