Many devices brandish the NFC logo, which means that by holding your ... Anything involving mobile phones, apps, beacons, check-ins and two-factor security will be slower and less elegant than ...

The mTag placard currently measures 8 inches by 5 inches and has an adhesive layer on one side, with a logo, a Quick Response (QR ... the tag’s unique ID number is captured by the NFC reader in the ...

NFC mobile payments are contactless digital payments ... When the reader detects the antenna of an NFC-enabled device, such as a phone or NFC-enabled credit card, the payment device communicates ...

Now available in the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch, NFC is poised to play an important role in the way we use our phones, especially when it comes to mobile payments. Here's how it works.

A summary of his research presented at last week's EUSecWest: Near Field Communication (NFC) based services and mobile phones are starting to appear in the field, therefore it is time to take a ...

In fact, Apple has offered NFC mobile payments in its wearables since the first Apple Watch was released in 2015. Generally, all you need to do is hold your phone or watch near the payment ...

The Finnish company recently launched NFC-enabled cell phones, Nokia 5140 and the Nokia 6131, to securely run wireless payments and other applications. But mobile operators, it seems, have other ...

But while flashing a phone near a station to make payments sounds easy, it really isn’t. If NFC mobile payments were simple, the technology would already be inside mobile phones and in wide ...

This makes sense as the Nexus was the first Android phone to ship with Android 2.3 (codenamed Gingerbread), which added NFC support to the mobile operating system. With a simple "buzz" you'll be ...

Infineon’s Zhu says that mainstream mobile phones provide 20mW on average in the company’s testing, but the NFC field strength depends on your phone’s antenna, the lock’s antenna ...

This API turns the iPhone into a payment terminal, so that banking apps can be used to receive contactless payments via another phone or NFC card. And although using this API requires approval ...

NFC technology takes advantage of the radio frequency waves already used by mobile phones. These waves only work at close distances — typically within about 1.5 inches (about four centimeters) from ...