The newly announced Surface Pro 10 for business has a built-in NFC reader. Yubico and Microsoft worked together to support logging into the PC without a password by using a YubiKey.
Samsung отключила поддержку карт МИР и похоронила сервис Samsung Pay в России. Можно ли теперь платить смартфоном Samsung через NFC, и какими приложениями стоит воспользоваться.
По слухам, на Западе не исключают возможность полного отключения бесконтактных платежей смартфонами в России. Технически это вполне реализуемо, хоть и выглядит маловероятно. Но даже в этом случае у нас останется выход
Short range communication using NFC (Near Field Communication) circuitry embedded in mobile phones has had a difficult journey to market, but it may soon see light at the end of the tunnel with increasing adoption for city transit projects, according to analysts.
Inside Contactless has announced a new packaging of its NFC silicon and firmware with a third-party security controller. The combination promises a complete system for secure mobile payments that can be easily integrated into a smartphone or tablet.
Two competing approaches to equipping mobile phones with contactless communications capabilities vied for supporters at the Cartes exhibition in Paris this week. Either approach could turn phones into self-service electronic tour guides, travel tickets or secure payment terminals.
Near Field Communication, or NFC, is a short-range wireless technology that is already used by consumers in Japan, South Korea and some European cities, mainly for inexpensive retail transactions and train rides.
PayPal is testing mobile payments using NFC (Near Field Communications) stickers in Stockholm, allowing users to pay for goods at two stores using Apple's iPhone and Android-based smartphones.
This week's iPhone 5 rumor roundup features information on The Date from that hotbed of Apple smartphone rumors, St. Albans, Hertfordshire; more slips from Verizon's loose-lipped CFO; LTE prospects in Red China; how the iPhone 5 is causing a slump in global smartphone cells; a new SIM card standard that will extend Apple's control over identity stuff; and why new tables in the Apple stores mean iPhone 5 will have NFC.
Linus Torvalds released Linux 3.1 Monday and the new feature list is long and wide. Linux 3.1 includes a new iSCSI implementation and support for OpenRISC, Near-Field Communication chips, and -- get this -- Wii controllers.
By now you're likely familiar with near-field communications (NFC) technology and its ability to help process mobile payments. But NFC's boosters think it's capable of more, oh, so much more.
Mobile payment and mobile commerce applications are proliferating in the U.S., but the adoption of Near Field Communications (NFC) technology that allows mobile phone customers to quickly tap a mobile phone and pay for a subway ride or a grocery store purchase is years away, several industry officials said at a conference here.
Mobile payments enabled by Near Field Communications (NFC) won't have as big an impact as vendors such as Google are hoping for, according to IEEE fellow Jack Winters.
The next generation of Wi-Fi -- the superfast IEEE 802.11ac standard -- will integrate a range of wireless technologies on the same chip, as Marvell showed this week at Taiwan's giant annual Computex show. The semiconductor vendor announced a chip that will include 11ac with Bluetooth and near-field communications (NFC).
At the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas Wednesday, Accuvant Labs researcher Charlie Miller showed how he figured out a way to break into both the Google/Samsung Nexus S and Nokia N9 by means of the Near Field Communication (NFC) capability in the smartphones.
The "mobile payments" industry isn't really about payments. It's about personalized, commerce-related services delivered to a user's smartphone or tablet: paying for something is just one of them, and arguably the least important for now.
Much buzz has been made this week over whether the upcoming Apple iPhone 5 will boast near field communications (NFC) technology, with the latest rumors saying it will not. Maybe, just maybe, that's what swayed James Bond to go with a Sony Xperia T instead in his upcoming "Skyfall" movie.
The Samsung Galaxy S3 can be hacked via NFC, allowing attackers to download all data from the Android smartphone, security researchers demonstrated during the Mobile Pwn2Own contest in Amsterdam on Wednesday.
Broadcom thinks it can make NFC a common smartphone feature by offering it in a chip with other wireless technologies, even if making payments with the technology doesn't catch on for years.
The rise of near-field communications (NFC) has been part of the discussion in the mobile industry for years. Unfortunately, the technology hasn't generated much more than discussion to this point.
The largest mobile operators in China, Japan, and Korea have agreed on common standards for touch-card technology, clearing the way for travellers across East Asia to user their phones for travel and payments.
The iPhone 5S rumors are swirling. Pundits and Apple watchers are predicting models with different screen sizes, cheaper prices, face recognition and NFC support.