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 ...

Near field communication (NFC) allows devices to communicate over short distances. Learn how NFC technology powers touchless ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 2005 study commissioned by Philips Semiconductors and Visa showed that consumers like the convenience, ease of use and “coolness” of making transactions with mobile phones that enabled a ...

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 ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 30, 2008--Silicon Valley-based ViVOtech, the leader in Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile payment and promotions and contactless payment systems, today ...