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 ...

While it’s not quite Star Trek tech yet, being able to wave your smartphone to make a payment is so cool that there are now 35 million NFC-enabled mobile phones in the world. With the launch of ...

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 tomorrow’s world, things we do every day, like paying at the till, buying a ticket for the bus or entering competitions, will all go through your mobile phone…using NFC technology.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google’s NFC Android phones will let you make contact-free payments. One of the primary ways NFC will be used within Android will be as a mobile payment system, Schmidt says. Thanks to the chips ...

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 ...

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 ...