If you tried to judge whether NFC mobile payments are ready for prime time — based on the amount of chatter you hear in your newsfeed — you’d think the contactless technology was on the ...

Mobile World Congress showed more than just new NFC-supported phones, it also displayed how you can use the technology.

If NFC mobile payments were simple, the technology would already be inside mobile phones and in wide usage in the U.S., some analysts have argued.

By now, you're probably somewhat familiar with Near Field Communications (NFC) technology. And when you hear the term NFC, the first thing that comes to mind is probably mobile payments.

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.

Mobile money transfers and contactless NFC will make up half the overall mobile-payments market globally in five years' time, according to a new report.

Technology heavyweights like Google and RIM have already begun to adopt NFC mobile wallet technology. But a new analyst report says widespread adoption by customers is still years away.

Some $130 billion in global consumer spending will occur with Near Field Communications (NFC)-enabled mobile payments by 2020, according to a study by e-commerce research and consulting firm ...

NFC stands for Near Field Communication and it allows short-range wireless communications. There are a lot of potential applications for NFC which we’ll delve into in a minute, but they all ...

NFC is currently only used for mobile payments on iOS As it stands today, NFC is used on the iPhone solely to transmit payment requests between a mobile device and a card reader.

For the past few years, we've been told over and over again that NFC will eventually replace the common wallet. And yes, NFC is a great technology. Parts of Europe and China are using it for ...

In reality, the tech behind mobile payments has been around since 2003 on a much smaller scale using near-field communications, more commonly known as NFC.