Samsung and Visa are working together to promote mobile payments using NFC technology, but with many elements of the mobile payment ecosystem still not in place, and the significant absence of Apple ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple Pay is Apple's mobile payments service that initially launched in 2014. It is designed to allow iPhone, iPad, Mac, ...

Between Apple Pay, Google Pay and other insert-company-name-here-plus-Pay solutions, it seems like many mobile payment apps are copy-paste efforts. It’s not just the naming convention that gets copied ...

NFC should reduce fraud, and that may help increase adoption in the U.S., Paul Tomasofsky, president and executive director of the Secure Remote Payment Council, tells PaymentsSource. Indeed, NFC ...

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 ...

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 ...

The famed service known as Apple Pay may bring an upgrade soon as part of its adherence to the NFC standard, offering new features to experience on the renowned contactless payment service. Presently, ...

A report states that Samsung has implemented a second NFC antenna in its Galaxy S26 series, which works to help improve the contactless payment experience. The publication conducted its own tests, ...

While people in many parts of the world have been happily using mobile phones as a convenient method of payment for years, the concept of contactless payment systems is still slow to catch on in the ...

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 ...