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 ...

NFC mobile payments use Apple Pay and Google Pay through contactless card readers. By 2026, 60% of people globally will use ...

Near Field Communication (NFC) is one of the most important technologies in modern-day iPhone and Android devices. We use NFC to authenticate payments using Apple Pay, unlock doors, identify owners of ...

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 ...

Banks, credit card issuers, telecommunications providers and cellular-phone manufacturers all are battling to carve out a role in the nascent mobile-payments market. In May, Google unveiled plans to ...

Near Field Communication, or NFC, is a short-range wireless technology that is already used by consumers in Japan, South Korea and some European cities, mainly for inexpensive retail transactions and ...

NFC is one of the magical new wireless technologies of our age. Already popular in Japan, NFC-based mobile phones have a chip with a very short range (a couple of inches). You can place an NFC phone ...

This should make using your phone’s NFC functionality a lot more convenient. Editorial Note: Talk Android may contain affiliate links on some articles. If you make a purchase through these links, we ...

Google has been on a multi-year journey to kill fragmentation in the Android ecosystem. When I’m talking about Android fragmentation, I’m referring to how there are many, many different ...

The other week I was working at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona and, not surprisingly, I found myself surrounded by thousands of examples of the latest wireless technology. The other week ...

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 ...