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Gerald Madlmayr is mobile consultant dealing especially with contactless and UICC-based applications as well as security and privacy in such systems. In 2009 he was named the 'NFC-Guru' by Nokia.

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mobilkom austria rolls out VISA credit card in Austria.

The time of trials is over today, as mobilkom Austria – Austria’s largest MNO with its brands “A1”, “RedBull mobile” and “bob” – launches a VISA creditcard for all 4,6 mio A1-customers today. With regard to banking, mobilkom Austria is not...

NFC Phones - Open up! or Where to put the Antenna in an NFC Phone.

Of course, you always have asked yourself. "Where did the put the antenna in those NFC Phones?" -- So, after opening serveral devices, here are a couple of pictures, which illustrate where manufacturer put the antenna of their NFC Devices. After opening the devices, they have been...

Felica, Suica & Osaifu-Keitai – The Japanese Way of NFC.

While NFC is not flying yet in the western world, contactless payment and ticketing is already a commodity in Japan. In the following, I’d like to give some insights into Felica from a business as well as from a technological perspective. Special Thanks in this regard to Jan Michael...

ISO 14443, ISO 18092, Type-A, Type-B, Type-F, Felica, Calypso NFCIP, NFC … – HELP!

You are trying to start with NFC Development? You are familiarly with coding and have devices and Tags? But nothing is working? Well then, this might be due to the different RF-layers that are used in the Domains of proximity Technology. “Why does he write ‘proximity...

Interview with the NFC Guru

There is a nice interview with me in the current issue of the “Regarding ID” magazine, which can be downloaded here . (starting on Page 40).

Nokia 6216: Nokia’s first UICC based NFC enabled device.

Last Friday Nokia announced it’s forth fully NFC enable handset, the Nokia 6216. The most new and sophisticated thing about this device is the fact, that secure element is placed on the UICC (Universal Integrated Circuit Card, SIM Card) and using SWP (Single Wire Protocol) to communicate...

Do-it-yourself NFC Phone

You are complaining that there are to few NFC phones on the market? Well here is an idea, on how to do that yourself: This actually also was the idea of six students at our University in Hagenberg, studying Embedded Systems Design. They decided to head for a project where they are...

NFC: From Technology to Applications.

One of the most important features of an NFC device, is its Card Emulation capability. Thru the handset, the Smartcard gets a display, a keyboard to interact with and even a network connection. Ticket or Cash thus can be transferred over-the-air (OTA) to the mobile device and be stored there...

NFC: Touch is the new click.

Today I’d like to give a basic introduction into NFC (Near Field Communication). It will give a rough overview over the technology and smartcards. Motivation The idea behind NFC was to invent a new killer application of a mobile device – but what is it? It’s...

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