Heads-up, marketers: NFC will do more for you than QR codes
Guest Post NFC technology offers unprecedented opportunities to brands that want to convey a tech-savvy image while delivering valuable offers and collecting vital consumer insights.
NFC makes it easy to connect Sony’s devices with ‘one touch’ (video)
January 12, 2013 7:00 AM
Dean Takahashi
With One Touch, you can tap a Sony Xperia Z phone to a TV and transfer a photo or a video.
Technology 2012: The year’s winners and losers
December 30, 2012 10:00 PM
John Koetsier
In every year, there are winners and losers: companies, devices, operating systems. Here's our look at some of the biggest successes and failures of 2012.
Total Wi-Fi shipments reached 5 billion in 2012, will almost quadruple by 2017
December 26, 2012 10:33 AM
John Koetsier
Total cumulative global WiFi shipments reached five billion in 2012, according to ABI Research. And the pace of innovation isn't slowing, with new WiFi protocols rolling out in 2013 and close to 20 billion WiFi-enabled devices predicted to be in the market by 2017.
2013 will be the year of ‘the Internet of things’ as more than 5B wireless chips ship
December 21, 2012 9:47 AM
John Koetsier
Most of those five billion chips won't be in phones, as tablets, sensors, cameras, light bulbs, refrigerators, and more increasingly get connected to the internet.
Aussie startup’s NFC tech makes touching a marketing opportunity
December 20, 2012 9:40 AM
Rebecca Grant
Tapit's Near Field Communication chips allow advertisers to deliver relevant content to consumers' phones.
Broadcom unveils a four-way radio chip to slash the costs of NFC
December 11, 2012 12:30 PM
Dean Takahashi
NFC is expected to become ubiquitous in mobile devices, providing short-range data transfer.
CIA invests in mobile security company to keep transactions under wraps
December 10, 2012 5:03 PM
Rebecca Grant
The CIA's venture arm, IN-Q-Tel, strikes strategic partnership with mobile security company Tyfone.
Sony’s Vaio Tap 20 is a Windows 8 touchscreen tablet/desktop hybrid for the whole family (review)
November 27, 2012 8:00 AM
Dean Takahashi
The tablet has a 20-inch screen that you can carry around the house.
Back to the future: Google Wallet is actually … a funky morphing credit card
November 1, 2012 4:06 PM
John Koetsier
Google Wallet, which just recently made big changes to support Visa, American Express, and Discover cards, is now apparently making even bigger changes. As in, back to the future changes.
Airtag releasing NFC mobile payments developer kit, wishes Apple would help simplify the ecosystem
October 16, 2012 12:05 PM
John Koetsier
Tomorrow, the Paris-based company that built MasterCard's PayPass API and counts McDonalds and Reeboks as its mobile commerce clients will release the Airtag Kit: a full collection of everything developers need to start building mobile payment apps.
Moo’s NFC business cards combine an aging format with an unpopular technology
September 28, 2012 9:10 AM
Ricardo Bilton
Moo is bringing the past and future together with its near field communications-enabled business cards.
These high-tech ‘smart socks’ have RFID, NFC, and far too much knowledge about themselves
September 19, 2012 9:46 PM
John Koetsier
There really is an app for everything. This is not always a good thing, since unfortunately it includes things that have no conceivable need for one.
NFC’s ongoing user interface problem: some readers don’t work
Guest Post I haven't had a lot of kind words for NFC, the mobile payments mechanism that some have touted as the Next Big Thing in payments. I've knocked it for being a kludgy experience that doesn't deliver any meaningful consumer value over swiping a credit card. But NFC has another big problem: Even when you think it might work, it doesn't.
8 major disappointments from Apple’s iPhone 5 Announcement
September 12, 2012 4:45 PM
James Pikover
Happy about the new iPhone 5? You should be ... or maybe you shouldn't, because the announcements made today weren't everything that we'd hoped for. In fact, some are startlingly painful. Here are eight that almost make today feel like a bad day
As Isis launch nears, NFC mobile payments still feel like a pipe dream
August 29, 2012 8:14 AM
Devindra Hardawar
Editor's Pick It's tough to muster much excitement for Isis, as NFC almost seems more like a fantasy today than when it was a hot buzzword for mobile payments years ago.
A tale of two iPhones — what an NFC-equipped iPhone would do to the mobile payments market
Guest Post Right now it’s the best of times for mobile payment companies, with new ideas and startups cropping up what seems like daily. When and if Apple announces NFC-equipped iPhones, it might become the worst of times.
Discover gives its blessing to Google Wallet and rewards users with cash back
August 16, 2012 3:34 PM
Jennifer Van Grove
Discover has officially partnered with Google to support Google Wallet, an NFC pay-by-phone application.
Google Wallet: Leave home without it
Guest Post
Sometimes companies do something just to feel like they’re making progress, even if that something makes no sense. That’s the only way I can rationalize what Google is doing with the latest twist on its Wallet initiative.
Wallet previously allowed …
Forget apps, hackers could use NFC to get access to your phone
July 25, 2012 7:04 PM
Meghan Kelly
Near-field communication helps you pay for things using your phone, quickly get through subway turnstiles and more. But NFC could give a hacker access to your phone just by standing next to you.
NFC interacts using small tags that can …
