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 ...

Near-field communication (NFC) mobile payments are a type of digital payment used among consumers of all ages. Below, we’ll explain what NFC mobile payments are, their pros and cons and everything ...

Most smartphones have Near Field Communication, or NFC technology, built in these days. If you’ve ever used a mobile payments app like Samsung Pay or Google Pay, you already know how NFC works. In a ...

The NFC Forum has laid down a roadmap that outlines five key initiatives through 2028. The outline offers a glimpse at the future of NFC technology. One of the initiatives is to increase the range of ...

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 ...

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Klarna Integrates Tap to Pay in App for Contactless NFC Payments Klarna has integrated Tap to Pay into its app, enabling ...

Since the earliest days of NFC mobile transactions, one of the most oft-repeated criticisms was, “What happens when the phone battery dies?” Well, one mobile payment system says it has solved that ...

On iPhone here, but NFC is used in two more scenarios for me beyond payments for me: iOS 17 added a feature to tap iPhones together to share content and I've found that doing this is significantly ...