Google's next generation of Android phones will include a new kind of technology called Near Field Communication, or NFC. Here's a primer on what it'll actually do for your device.

Small computerized devices that communicate wirelessly promise to make everyday life more comfortable and less technically challenging, but the technology might achieve just the opposite. Near field ...

Now available in the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch, NFC is poised to play an important role in the way we use our phones, especially when it comes to mobile payments. Here's how it works.

Samsung trumpets NFC in its Galaxy S III, but the technology is still not well known NFC fuels mobile payment systems like Google Wallet The technology poses a big infrastructure challenge NEW ...

Near-field communication (NFC) is a short-range wireless connectivity technology that lets NFC-enabled devices communicate with each other. Such devices include mobile phones, tablets, laptops ...

Instead of swiping plastic to pay at the register, a user could just take out a cell phone and wave it near an NFC-enabled reader. The purchase amount would be deducted instantaneously.

The number of NFC-enabled phones is expected to surpass 1 billion by 2016. NFC, based on contactless smartcard technology, allows secure data exchange by using encryption and a special processor.

A new NFC system being ramped up by Verifone and Micros for the restaurant industry would allow diners to pay their checks through their NFC-equipped mobile phones. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

— -- NEW YORK -- In ads comparing its Galaxy S III with the iPhone 5, Samsung is claiming superiority for features its flagship handset has that Apple's smartphone lacks. NFC is on the list ...

All the experts we spoke to agree that for NFC to have staying power in either phones or contactless cards, it needs to make the in-store retail experience better, or make paying more convenient.

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 ...

One hundred consumers who shop at the C1000 grocery store in Molenaarsgraaf, the Netherlands, have begun paying for transactions with mobile phones equipped with Near Field Communications (NFC) RFID ...