The NFC Forum, the non-profit org made up of big tech companies promoting the NFC standard, envisions a future wherein one tap is all you need for multiple actions at once. With a single tap, for ...

The NFC Multi-Purpose Tap concept aims to combine payments with other interactions, such as adding loyalty points, sending electronic receipts, and age authentication, all within a single contactless ...

Apple Pay and Google Wallet could do more with NFC if Multi-Purpose Tap adds support for loyalty cards or additional transactions. Apple Pay and Google Wallet could do more with NFC if Multi-Purpose ...

The NFC Forum is gearing up to define standards for Multi-Purpose Tap, which will enable a single tap of your phone to perform multiple actions at once. NFC Forum is the standards body for Near Field ...

Apple is officially opening up the NFC functions of iPhones to third-party apps with the forthcoming iOS version 18.1. This will enable tap (AKA "contactless") transactions in apps other than Apple ...

NFC is an increasingly useful technology in the modern world, and now it’s getting a range boost as the standard will now operate at 2cm away, nearly four times the previous requirement in a change ...

As contactless payments become ubiquitous, fraudsters are evolving new tactics to exploit them. A Near Field Communication (NFC) relay attack is one such threat. It intercepts and relays the ...