Archive for November, 2009
China is a huge country. When you have the population of that much, it’s not logical to pay license fees, but better to develop your own standards. They did it on blueray equivalent media and on payment card applications. China has a payment system of its own, called CUP and NFC World’s latest article says [ READ MORE ]
Contactless chips for limited use have been popular in public transportation for some years. NXP, just like in mifare case, has been leading this market with mifare ultralight. Ultralight chips have limited memory and no crypto support, but have OTP (one time programmable) memory area which is perfect for enabling the restriction the limited use [ READ MORE ]
My previous post on Apple’s NFC support on iPhone got the most hits among all the content here. Luckily, it turns out that next generation iPhone will have the NFC support. Near Field Communications World.com’s post was linking the Apple Insider’s post, which has all the details of the patent application of Apple on sharing [ READ MORE ]
A recent post on Near Field Communications Group on Linkedin states that Apple is working on some prototype iPhones which have contactless reader. Here’s the full post: Had to share this news. A highly reliable source has informed me that Apple has built some prototypes of the next gen iPhone with an RFID reader built in [ READ MORE ]
It’s quite common nowadays to talk about security leaks of mifare classic chips. It’s easy to “hack” the chip, clone it, read the contents of it without knowing the keys, and so on; the list goes on like this. Even the license holder NXP is recommending to migrate to mifare plus. Well not good for [ READ MORE ]