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 ...

YC-backed Tagstand, a company intent on helping make NFC more of a mainstream technology, is rebooting its Android app, NFC Task Launcher with a whole new feature set and user interface. The app was ...

Apple's Shortcuts is the perfect app to built multistep automations triggered with NFC tags — here's how I'm using it.

Turn on / off Wi-Fi function, Wi-Fi setting, on / off of Bluetooth function, change brightness, alarm setting, timer setting, template preparation of SMS, browsing display of specified site, etc. with ...

Mouser Electronics, Inc. and STMicroelectronics have partnered to provide near field communication (NFC) solutions for short-range wireless interactions across multiple electronic devices.Mouser ...

iPhone maker Apple looks to be considering adopting NFC as details of a patent application emerge for gifting media files from one iOS user to another. Much to the frustration of the NFC ecosystem, ...

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 ...

Past Apple patent applications have already offered some evidence that the company is at least thinking about NFC-enhanced apps on the iPhone, and a recently published application has now tossed out ...

PayPal has this week launched its newly updated Android application which now brings NFC payment support to Android devices. The addition of NFC payment to the PayPal Android app was expected towards ...