Contactless chip technology provider Inside Contactless is making its Open NFC commercial-grade NFC protocol stack available in a free and open source edition.

Near field communication—NFC—will begin to replace traditional wallets and purses starting in 2011, according to research by SJB Research.

Citi Tap and Pay, a contactless credit-card payments platform based on Near Field Communications technology, has rolled out in India.

Mobile loyalty and rewards service provider Tetherball has teamed with Vivotech to offer its recently introduced RFID-based mobile loyalty programs to existing users of Vivotech’s contactless reader technology.