NFC (near-field communication) will hit the big time in mobile phones next year, joining an array of emerging features that carriers are clamoring for, according to communications chip maker Broadcom.

The other week I was working at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona and, not surprisingly, I found myself surrounded by thousands of examples of the latest wireless technology. The other week ...

SINGAPORE--The industry has crossed a "major hurdle" that is touted to resolve interoperability issues, opening the gates to pervasive contactless mobile payments, according to an NFC (near-field ...

Consumers have panned OnePlus with a laundry list of grievances, spanning the lack of NFC in the OnePlus 2 and OnePlus X, that notorious invite system, and its seemingly dubious “Never Settle” motto.

Google has been on a multi-year journey to kill fragmentation in the Android ecosystem. When I’m talking about Android fragmentation, I’m referring to how there are many, many different ...

Five years ago, RFID-enabled credit cards, issued by American Express, MasterCard and Visa, promised to transform consumers’ spending habits and open new opportunities for retailers. To make a ...

The solution includes selfie-based biometric verification, matching the document photo with a real-time user image to confirm ...

Several British home-care organizations are trialling a Near Field Communication (NFC) system, known as O2 Home Care, in hundreds of homes in the United Kingdom. The system could change the way ...

Near-Field Communication isn’t anything new, but according to BusinessWeek, Google wants in—maybe even this year. It’d let users swipe their phones on a checkout reader, paying for small purchases ...

Phone manufacturers must build NFC (Near Field Communications) functionality into mobile handsets in order to speed adoption of mobile payment systems, the GSM Association said Tuesday. NFC should be ...

A security research firm says it discovered an “easily” exploitable vulnerability in a door entry security system used in government buildings and apartment complexes, but warns that the vulnerability ...