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 ...

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 ...

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Digital wallets have in particular emerged as one of the most used methods in recent years as the use of cash is slowly decreasing. As part of this revolution, NFC (Near Field Communication) ...

The famed service known as Apple Pay may bring an upgrade soon as part of its adherence to the NFC standard, offering new features to experience on the renowned contactless payment service. Presently, ...

NFC is not really the problem. The real issue is do we want to stay on the path to a totally cashless society? It appears as though consumers are happy to keep their credit cards and cash for now.

All modern iPhones have NFC chips inside that can be used by features built by Apple, but nobody else. That means that while NFC payments are possible when using Apple Pay, those same capabilities are ...

Instead of using only Apple Pay to hold over terminals from stores to complete a payment, Apple is now offering the iPhone's NFC to be available for developers to utilize for their respective apps.

Hackers are using Chinese-speaking Android malware-as-a-service SuperCard X to carry out near-field communication relay attacks, siphoning payment card data and executing live point of sale and ATM ...

Customers can now make payments simply by tapping their phones on an NFC (Near Field Communication)-enabled QR code through bKash.

If certain voices in the computing industry are to be believed–including Google, Apple and Microsoft–the future of personal payments will be near-field communication (NFC) via cell phones. Credit ...