Simple NDEF Exchange Protocol Enables Common Data Format for Peer-to-Peer and Reader/Writer Modes WAKEFIELD, Mass., USA - Sept. 29, 2011 - The NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association that ...

The NFC Forum’s new roadmap includes five new features that could enable wireless charging options, extended read range, greater data storage for sustainability, and multiple functions with a single ...

As the proportion of senior citizens grows, their special needs are gaining momentum. Human eyesight, for example, weakens with age. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has been developing new ...

Near field communication (NFC) has recently popped up in the news. The technology is most closely associated with mobiles phones—Google has added support for NFC in Android, and Samsung has NFC ...

Now that most smartphones are equipped with Near Field Communication technology, RFID providers are offering a wide variety of NFC transponders. “We’ve certainly seen a lot of changes in the industry” ...

NFC (Near-Field Communications) is designed to operate over very short distances—typically less than 4 cm. Early uses of the technology in mobile phones and other mobile devices more or less mirrored ...

The Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council has published a white paper examining how the transit industry can best make use of NFC technology. “One of the major challenges facing transit agencies ...

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