Market research suggests that over the next few years, Near Field Communication (NFC) technology will be in use all around us. For consumers, the technology will become omnipresent in our lives, and ...

If you needed to order lunch or a cab or pull up your quarterly bank statement, you'd probably reach for one thing to do it: your smartphone. Our mobile devices have increasingly played an essential ...

The FINANCIAL — For the first time in Georgia, Peoples Bank has introduced NFC-mobile phones, an innovative alternative to plastic cards. Near Field Communication or NFC, is a short-range high ...

Barclaycard reportedly plans to deploy mobile phones enabled with Near Field Communication payment technology in conjunction with France-based mobile-network operator Orange during the second half of ...

NFC (near-field communication) will hit the big time in mobile phones next year, joining an array of emerging features that carriers are clamoring for, according to communications chip maker Broadcom.

NFC tags, a technology commonly used to enable contactless payments through a mobile device at the pump and at vending machines, are making their way to the physical point-of-sale. Computop, a Bamberg ...

Multiple companies are deploying or piloting a new Near Field Communication (NFC)- and Bluetooth-based credential-managing solution from HID Global that enables employees to access physical offices, ...

Qualcomm has announced it is now building near-field communications technology, a type of RFID, into some of its chipsets. The manufacturer, which mainly makes chipsets for mobile phones, revealed its ...

Vodafone, the world's largest mobile telecommunications provider, and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), a leading smart card manufacturer, are teaming up to develop a secure storage element for NFC-enabled ...

Square unveiled new tools on Monday for both merchants and consumers to make transactions with nothing more than smartphones and tablets. As mobile platform vendors and the credit card industry strive ...

After previous tests resulted in mobile phone payments taking a little longer to complete a transaction than a contactless Oyster card, Transport for London is again trying Near Field ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Flexa, the leading provider of pure-digital payments, is today introducing Tap to Pay support for cryptocurrency transactions, becoming the first digital currency acceptance ...