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 ...

Samsung and Visa are working together to promote mobile payments using NFC technology, but with many elements of the mobile payment ecosystem still not in place, and the significant absence of Apple ...

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 ...

Starbucks says it has done just fine using basic barcode scanning technology for its successful U.S. smartphone payment system, which raises the question: Who really needs Near Field Communication ...

NFC mobile payments are contactless digital payments where mobile wallets or NFC-enabled credit cards communicate with special card readers. NFC technology allows businesses to accept customer ...

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 copied ...

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 ...

NFC is a short range wireless technology, very similar to RFID and reminiscent of Bluetooth, commonly used for contactless payments. When an NFC device -- normally a smartcard or mobile phone -- is ...

Contactless payments are growing in popularity. Often the term will bring to mind the ability to pay by holding your phone over a reader, but the system can also use NFC tags embedded in credit cards, ...

The United States has been slow to adopt the concept of near-field communications (NFC) technology or the idea of using a mobile phone as a method of payment, but it is gradually catching on. New ...

While people in many parts of the world have been happily using mobile phones as a convenient method of payment for years, the concept of contactless payment systems is still slow to catch on in the ...