You’ll likely have seen the abbreviation “NFC” when browsing smartphone, wearable, and app features — but what exactly does it mean? Most smartphones have Near Field Communication, or NFC, technology ...

INSIDE Secure, provider of semiconductor solutions for secure transactions and digital identity, has announced the availability of a new version of its award-winning, open-source Open NFC protocol ...

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 ...

The NFC Forum has noted that those who own and sell NFC products should not have to apply for new certification with the NFC Forum each time the software is updated. The feature should make OS updates ...

ViVOtech, the near field communication (NFC) software and systems company, has raised $24 million in Series C funding from Singapore’s EDBI, SingTel Innov8, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, Alloy ...

ViVOtech, a near field communication (NFC) software and systems company, is shutting down operations due to cash-flow problems. This, despite having raised nearly $100 million in outside funding over ...

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 Secure hopes to make it easier for Android phone designers to use its NFC chips — or those of its competitors — with the release of a version of its Open NFC software stack for Android. Android ...

ViVOtech Inc., a pioneer in contactless payments and near-field communication (NFC) technology, disclosed Monday that it sold its card-reader business to ID Tech, a manufacturer of smart card readers ...

One reason why mobile wallets haven't taken off is the very few number of NFC-enabled phones. One reason why mobile wallets haven't taken off is the very few number of NFC-enabled phones. The payment ...