If you needed to order lunch or a cab or pull up your quarterly bank statement, you'd probably reach for one thing to do it: your smartphone. Our mobile devices have increasingly played an essential ...

The new contactless phone payment scam uses tap-to-pay cards and mobile wallets to obtain users' data and money.

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The United States has been slow to adopt the concept of near-field communications (NFC) technology or the idea of using a mobile phone as a method of payment, but it is gradually catching on. New ...

All modern iPhones have NFC chips inside that can be used by features built by Apple, but nobody else. That means that while NFC payments are possible when using Apple Pay, those same capabilities are ...

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 ...

NFC is a short range wireless technology, very similar to RFID and reminiscent of Bluetooth, commonly used for contactless payments. When an NFC device -- normally a smartcard or mobile phone -- is ...

Samsung's flagship phones house the NFC antenna coil in the upper central area of the back panel, just below or around the right of the camera module. This inconsistent placement can make contactless ...

In the earliest days of mobile wallets, there was much debate over whether to focus on using QR codes — which can be displayed on any phone's screen — or to wait for more phones to support Near Field ...

As the European Commission continues to look into whether Apple has abused its market dominance by restricting mobile payments on iOS devices, Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager today ...