The NFC Forum’s new roadmap includes five new features that could enable wireless charging options, extended read range, greater data storage for sustainability, and multiple functions with a single ...

To hear most mobile companies tell it these days, you'd think that NFC (or near field communications) is only for mobile payments. That's not the case at all, of course, and a group of researchers at ...

NFC has been around for some time now. It can actually be traced back as far as 1983 to some degree. What I mean by this is that NFC (Near Field Communication) can be traced to where its roots really ...

Now that most smartphones are equipped with Near Field Communication technology, RFID providers are offering a wide variety of NFC transponders. “We’ve certainly seen a lot of changes in the industry” ...

During CARTES, Infineon Technologies AG announced a 32-bit high-security flash microcontroller designed to bring a significant layer of security and convenience to mobile applications based on NFC ...

Near field communication (NFC) has recently popped up in the news. The technology is most closely associated with mobiles phones—Google has added support for NFC in Android, and Samsung has NFC ...

Near-field communications (NFC), previously considered merely the next generation of barcodes, has proven to be much more than practical and robust. New applications have moved beyond traditional ...

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It’s a scenario frightening for both its simplicity and tenacity. More and more people use wireless communication devices such as mobile phones, biometric passports and credit cards with radio ...