Have you ever noticed a small “N” icon at the top of your smartphone screen and wondered what it meant? For many mobile users ...

Walking into my office triggers a whole routine now, thanks to a tag by the door. The calendar opens, email loads, project apps launch in order, lights shift to bright white, and focus music starts ...

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We’ve all heard a thing or two about NFC (near-field communication) –but Adafruit has come up with one of the most clever and convenient uses for the technology: unlocking your device just by picking ...

Apple announced on Wednesday that it will open up the iPhone’s NFC chip to third-party apps, just as it did earlier this year for developers located in the European Union. The new API will be ...

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Google has been on a multi-year journey to kill fragmentation in the Android ecosystem. When I’m talking about Android fragmentation, I’m referring to how there are many, many different ...

iPhones and Apple Watches could support multiple actions via NFC simultaneously in the future, the NFC Forum today suggested. The NFC Forum, the leading standards body for Near Field Communication ...

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 is reportedly making a hardware change to the benefit of mobile payments, with a second NFC antenna reportedly being added to the top of the device. As it stands today, most ...