The availability of NFC-enabled smart phones is finally ramping up in the U.S. But handset makers are promoting the snazzy other stuff that NFC delivers, not payments. For years, champions of mobile ...

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 ...

Small computerized devices that communicate wirelessly promise to make everyday life more comfortable and less technically challenging, but the technology might achieve just the opposite. Near field ...

Through technology trials, consumers in Amsterdam, France and Finland have been learning to use cell phones with near-field communication (NFC) technology for electronic payments and data exchange.

Based on a groundswell of optimism surrounding Near Field Communication payment applications on display this week at the Cartes & IDentification conference in Paris, executives at NXP Semiconductors ...

The NFC Forum, a United States-based trade group that promotes Near Field Communication technology, plans to introduce a "stylized N symbol" next month designed to "enable consumers to easily identify ...

BARCELONA, Spain — Cell phones are usually used to communicate with people far away. This year, they'll get the ability to do the opposite: communicate with things that are close enough to touch. It ...

Near-field communication (NFC) is a technology that lets two gadgets communicate with each other when they are within a few centimeters of each other. It is useful for touch payments, e-tickets, data ...

BARCELONA — Mobile payment technologies are spreading fast, as Google Wallet is already available on NFC-ready Android phones, and Isis Mobile Wallet is coming this summer. Apple’s coming iPhone 5 is ...

In a world first, Westpac is trialling a system that stores debit card data in your phone's SIM card, to work with any MasterCard PayPass payment system. Seamus Byrne Editor, Australia & Asia Seamus ...