The technology, which has already been seen on a leaked iPhone 6 logic board, will likely be used to support a mobile payments initiative. NFC wireless is central to Apple's plans to incorporate ...

MasterCard has been working with contactless outfit NXP and Qualcomm to develop its mobile payment system. NFC is fast becoming a standard for retailer’s systems, with most new systems now ...

NFC Release 15 quadruples the tap-to-pay range from 0.5 cm to 2 cm, improving reliability. ... Google, and Sony on its board, has just quadrupled the effective range of NFC connections.

Five years ago, RFID-enabled credit cards, issued by American Express, MasterCard and Visa, promised to transform consumers’ spending habits and open new opportunities for retailers. To make a ...

Apple recently announced greatly expanded capabilities for NFC and Apple Pay, and it could change everything. By Jason Cross. Senior Editor, Macworld MAY 14, 2019 8:00 pm PDT.

As NFC typically is aimed at contactless payments–which usually are for purchases of under $25 that don’t require a signature–the benefits of the system are limited to certain retailers.

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 ...

iPad with NFC could be the ultimate payment terminal. Of course, Apple wants to target small vendors who already have an iPhone so that they don’t have to buy another device.

Between Apple Pay, Google Pay and other insert-company-name-here-plus-Pay solutions, it seems like many mobile payment apps are copy-paste efforts. It’s not just the naming convention that gets ...

Besides mobile payments, using NFC tags is a great way to utilize this technology. You can use these to automate specific tasks when you tap on them with your smartphone’s NFC chip.