Today, NXP drastically revised its 2011 NFC sales forecasts – in fact it more than halved them. This follows several months of NFC excitement in the mobile space as big players clamoured to announce their rival offerings. Haven’t we been on this NFC hype cycle before?
This summer the US operator consortium Isis – comprising AT&T, [...]

Reports last week claimed that Vodafone’s CEO Vittorio Colao is calling his handset suppliers to order, apparently with a view to reducing their number and further standardising the Vodafone “experience”, aka user interface.
Now this is nothing new - the struggle between operators and handset vendors for supremacy and mindshare of the end customer has been [...]