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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While smart card manufacturers where showcasing their latest visual tricks and printing capabilities on the busy alleys of CARTES & Identification in Paris, most applications were geared as usual ...

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) ...