Maybe some mobile technologies have to be invisible to be fully effective. At a forum earlier this week, several of the major NFC (Near Field Communication) players gathered in Cambridge at the MIT ...

The famed service known as Apple Pay may bring an upgrade soon as part of its adherence to the NFC standard, offering new features to experience on the renowned contactless payment service. Presently, ...

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Digital wallets have in particular emerged as one of the most used methods in recent years as the use of cash is slowly decreasing. As part of this revolution, NFC (Near Field Communication) ...

That’s part of the latest roadmap for NFC’s future, published this week by the NFC Forum. Back in 2023, the organization ...

NFC is not really the problem. The real issue is do we want to stay on the path to a totally cashless society? It appears as though consumers are happy to keep their credit cards and cash for now.

Apple has proposed opening its NFC payment technology to third-party developers in Europe, allowing direct rivals to Apple Pay to operate on the iPhone for the first time. Historically, the use of ...

Walmart still doesn’t accept Apple Pay (or any NFC tap-to-pay) in U.S. stores. Here are a few reasons why it doesn't.

There’s mobile commerce technology and then there are consumer habits and behaviors. For the longest time, proponents of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology have been trying to bridge that gap.

Short primer: NFC can be used to identify objects. You can use it for stock control, ticketing systems and mobile payments. Such solutions depend on two elements — that devices are equipped with NFC ...

You probably won’t see the Wallet Cracker app in the Android Market anytime soon. That’s not because it doesn’t work; it actually works perfectly, which is the problem. In a video posted by security ...

BARCELONA — Mobile payment technologies are spreading fast, as Google Wallet is already available on NFC-ready Android phones, and Isis Mobile Wallet is coming this summer. Apple’s coming iPhone 5 is ...