NFC – or Near Field Communication – is a type of wireless communication standard. Unlike WiFi or Radio, it’s not transmitted across the world, but instead it’s dependent on close proximity.

To get the most out of NFC technology, you’ll need a set of NFC tags and an app on your Android phone capable of reading the tags and executing routines of varying complexity.

Westpac has teamed up with MasterCard to pilot an Android application that uses near-field communication (NFC) technology. Screenshot of Westpac's app. The new Mobile Contactless Payment app will ...

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 ...

Google’s NFC Android phone-based payments should be secure. Schmidt and others contend that having your payment system on your phone is actually more secure than carrying it around on a piece of ...

How to use NFC on Android: Mobile payments, tags, fast pairing, and more. How-to's. All of those percentages are markedly less than those companies’ 2015 percentages.

For Android 2.3 devices, Miller was able to hijack the application daemon that controls NFC functions, rather than just launch a browser. Luckily, the number of devices that run Android 2.3 and ...

The National Australia Bank has started rolling out contactless smartphone payments via NAB Pay, with Android-owning customers able to pay for purchases using their phone's in-built NFC transmitter.