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 ...

Accepting all forms of payment is important. At this point, credit/debit cards are everywhere, and many of us use them exclusively (I don’t ever carry cash anymore). Obviously, a business which ...

Less than 1 million mobile credentials were downloaded by end users of mobile access solutions in 2016; however, IHS Markit is forecasting that number to increase rapidly during the next five years, ...

WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NFC Forum, the leading standards body for Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, launched a Proof-of-Concept Mobile Reader application for Android and iOS that ...

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 ...

Square on Monday officially launched a new mobile card reader compatible with Apple Pay, something that could potentially boost the latter platform's support outside of major retail chains. The ...

Mobile payments company Square today announced the launch of its new NFC reader within 100 small businesses around the country, letting stores who previously were unable to accept Apple Pay -- due to ...

Panthronics AG, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in high performance wireless technology, has extended its portfolio of high-performance NFC reader ICs with two new products, giving OEMs ...

NFC is a short range wireless technology, very similar to RFID and reminiscent of Bluetooth, commonly used for contactless payments. When an NFC device -- normally a smartcard or mobile phone -- is ...

PayPal just debuted its new chip-and-pin solution, and it’s NFC enabled — making it one step ahead of Square. The new capability means that PayPal Here merchants will be able to accept mobile payments ...

There’s a lot of hype around Apple Pay right now, but not everyone is on board with the new mobile payments system. In fact, a significant number of merchants, including heavyweights like Walmart, ...

The D600 is the latest DuraScan handheld model, part of a series of highly durable, easy-to-use readers with intuitive interfacing. As an ergonomically handheld RFID reader/writer, the D600 expands ...