A growing number of smartphones have NFC (near-field communication) capabilities to make mobile payments, but accessories and ultrabooks also now increasingly have the same technology. DeviceFidelity ...

Telenor, Norway's incumbent telco, and DNB, the largest bank in the country, have joined forces to launch a mobile contactless payment product. The pair announced last week that they have established ...

LONDON – Smart card IC company Inside Contactless SA has launched its SecuRead system-in-package for NFC mobile devices. The component includes NFC Controller, security controller, Java Card OS and an ...

LONDON — Wider adoption of near field communications with mobile phones took a further step forward with the European Telecoms Standardization Institute ETSI's Smart Card Platform Technical Committee ...

Over the past several weeks, I’ve devoted a couple of posts to NFC (near field communication), talking about how the technology has potential beyond just turning a smartphone into an e-wallet and ...

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 ...

WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The NFC Forum, the global standards body and advocacy association for Near Field Communication (NFC), released four new specifications today improving the robustness ...

Given all the other disruptive influences on the electronic payments business that piled up last year, the Holy Grail quest for NFC payments probably seems like a more of a distraction than a ...

Between Apple Pay, Google Pay and other insert-company-name-here-plus-Pay solutions, it seems like many mobile payment apps are copy-paste efforts. It’s not just the naming convention that gets copied ...

Interactive panels with eight embedded NFC tags representing weekly-updated information on fashion, travel, astrology, dining, love, beauty, cooking and men's trends have been installed in three ...