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 ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS—Near Field Communication, a technology often cited as the future of mobile payments, may never come to dominate the category, according to a panel addressing the inaugural Cartes in North ...

In the earliest days of mobile wallets, there was much debate over whether to focus on using QR codes — which can be displayed on any phone's screen — or to wait for more phones to support Near Field ...

RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DeviceFidelity, Inc. the world’s leader in plug and play mobile payment and contactless technologies, announced today that its Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile ...

Square unveiled new tools on Monday for both merchants and consumers to make transactions with nothing more than smartphones and tablets. As mobile platform vendors and the credit card industry strive ...

WACO, Texas – Baylor University has announced the launch of NFC wallet-based mobile credentials on its campus in collaboration with CBORD and Allegion. CBORD said that this move positions Baylor as a ...

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 ...

The number of NFC-enabled devices will pass 500 million within 12 months, according to ABI Research, thanks to the efforts of OEMs. The report said a minimum of 285 million NFC-based mobile and ...

You’ve probably seen the acronym NFC but might not be clear about what it is and why there’s been so much hullabaloo about it. NFC stands for near field ...

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 ...

LIVE FROM THE GSMA’S NFC & MOBILE MONEY SUMMIT, NEW YORK: Lack of mass-market NFC handsets is one of the factors holding back wider take-up of NFC in China, according to Liu Xin (pictured), deputy ...