Inside Secure hopes to make it easier for Android phone designers to use its NFC chips — or those of its competitors — with the release of a version of its Open NFC software stack for Android. Android ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Near Field Communication is poised to take off perhaps as early as 2010 as an enabling technology for mobile payment systems using cellphone handsets. But significant pieces of the ...

The NFC Forum has noted that those who own and sell NFC products should not have to apply for new certification with the NFC Forum each time the software is updated. The feature should make OS updates ...

Contactless chip technology firm Inside Contactless has released an open-standard Near-Field Communication (NFC) software suite known as Open NFC 3.4 (based on previous versions of its proprietary ...

A San Francisco-based company on March 30 announced its introduction of a modular set of software frameworks and applications designed to facilitate deployment of Near Field Communication payments and ...

WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association that advances the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, has published the NFC Controller Interface (NCI) ...

Inside Contactless and NXP Semiconductors this week made their respective APIs (application programming interfaces) for contactless payments available as open source code, hoping to give the sector a ...

Broadcom Tuesday unveiled a single chip that combines Near Field Communication technology with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and FM radio. The company expects that the new chip will boost the use of NFC in ...

If certain voices in the computing industry are to be believed–including Google, Apple and Microsoft–the future of personal payments will be near-field communication (NFC) via cell phones. Credit ...