Mobile point of sale provider CHARGE Anywhere LLC is grabbing an NFC niche where one exists: BlackBerry devices. The company announced its new BlackBerry payments software featuring NFC payment technology at this week's BlackBerry World event in Orlando, Fla.

With CHARGE Anywhere's Mobile Payment App for BlackBerry, merchants can accept payments on BlackBerry smartphones or PlayBook devices. NFC-enabled credit and debit cards carrying Visa payWave or MasterCard PayPass need only be tapped on the devices to be processed.

And since it's NFC, no dongles are required to process transactions — so long as the card is a contactless card. (That last part is important considering that contactless hasn't necessarily taken off in the U.S.)

Even with contactless card  adoption issues and BlackBerry's diminishing market share in the smartphone space, supporting the devices means CHARGE Anywhere is supporting devices that are actively pushing NFC. Both the BlackBerry Curve and Bold come with NFC technology enabled and BlackBerry manufacturer RIM has said it is committed to including NFC in all of its future devices.

"We are proud to say that CHARGE Anywhere is the first Mobile Payment App provider to support NFC initiated credit and debit card payment acceptance on BlackBerry NFC enabled devices," said Paul Sabella, CEO of CHARGE Anywhere. "CHARGE Anywhere has a legacy of supporting mobile payments on BlackBerry devices dating back to the original RIM 950 two-way pager."

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