Forget wireless payments, the real use for Near Field Communication (NFC) technology is connecting consumers with their homes and their cars. When NFC is discussed, it is almost always in terms of ...

NFC technology enables what we sometimes called “contactless” payments, device pairing, and other functionality. But since the current range of NFC connections is limited to 5mm (or about 0.2 inches), ...

Among many options for low-power, relatively short-ranged connectivity, two technologies stand out – near-field communication and Bluetooth low energy. Both have relatively low deployment costs and ...

NEW wireless technologies, from Wi-Fi to Bluetooth to 3G, generally promise to be faster, longer-range and more efficient than their predecessors. So a new technology, called “near-field communication ...

The trend to embed wireless charging capability into consumer devices has been led by the Wireless Power Consortium’s (WPC) Qi charging standard, which is the most widely adopted technology for the ...

Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, which enables people with NFC-based smartphones to access data via the touch of their phone against a tag, comes with a few ...

NFC is the almost-near future of how we interact with the physical world around us, and a new addition to the technology’s protocol today is going to make using it ...

The RF430CL330H dynamic near field communications transponder (tag) IC orchestrates the setup of wireless links. It combines a wireless NFC interface and a SPI/I 2 C interface to connect to a host.

iPhone maker Apple looks to be considering adopting NFC as details of a patent application emerge for gifting media files from one iOS user to another. Much to the frustration of the NFC ecosystem, ...

Thanks to the growing number of wireless speaker systems, those of us who have a good-sized digital music collection on our smartphones or tablets no longer have to concern ourselves with docking our ...

You are at the corner store, buying gum. The cashier rings up the purchase, showing you the amount. You casually pull out your cell phone and wave it near the credit card machine, which beeps ...