Also we will provide a small survey of NFC applications in the field. Finally we will release a small set of tools to do further analysis on NFC mobile phones and applications.

Mobile World Congress showed more than just new NFC-supported phones, it also displayed how you can use the technology. Kent was a senior managing editor at CNET News. A veteran of CNET since 2003 ...

Zoosh, a new technology developed by Sunnyvale startup Naratte, aims to deliver all the benefits of NFC (near-field communication) with any device that has a speaker and microphone. Instead of ...

Carriers: Mobile purchasing is convenient, and phones with NFC chips inside can help attract and keep customers. That's just one part of the equation.

Our mobile solution in the United States is designed to be used on any mobile network, with any NFC-enabled smart phone, with any financial institution and on any payment product (credit, debit ...

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.

Co-existing with wallets Ultimately, analysts believe that NFC payments will continue co-existing with physical as well as mobile wallets until contactless payments become ubiquitous near 2020.

Reiterating a 2009 Forrester prediction that “mobile contactless payments wouldn’t hit the mass market for another decade,” analyst Thomas Husson, writing in “NFC: What Lies Beyond ...

Again, NFC is an incredibly useful technology. In fact, the social media implications of NFC ubiquity in mobile devices (not at POS) are kind of mind-boggling.