SAN JOSE, Calif. — Near Field Communication is poised to take off perhaps as early as 2010 as an enabling technology for mobile payment systems using cellphone handsets. But significant pieces of the ...

The NFC Forum has noted that those who own and sell NFC products should not have to apply for new certification with the NFC Forum each time the software is updated. The feature should make OS updates ...

Giesecke & Devrient (News - Alert) (G&D) and ViVOtech made a joint announcement that their respective technologies are interoperable following tests conducted between their NFC products. Applications ...

A San Francisco-based company on March 30 announced its introduction of a modular set of software frameworks and applications designed to facilitate deployment of Near Field Communication payments and ...

Contactless chip technology firm Inside Contactless has released an open-standard Near-Field Communication (NFC) software suite known as Open NFC 3.4 (based on previous versions of its proprietary ...

You’ll likely have seen the abbreviation “NFC” when browsing smartphone, wearable, and app features — but what exactly does it mean? Most smartphones have Near Field Communication, or NFC, technology ...

Inside Contactless and NXP Semiconductors this week made their respective APIs (application programming interfaces) for contactless payments available as open source code, hoping to give the sector a ...

WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association that advances the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, has published the NFC Controller Interface (NCI) ...

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