Apple showed off many new features of the new iPhone during its “Gather round” event earlier this month, but there’s one major update that didn’t make it to the main stage. It was an update to the ...

As outlined on Apple's developer site, the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR models allow users to scan NFC tags without an app using a new background tag reading feature. On iPhones that support background ...

A few months ago Hackaday covered the xNT crowdfunding campaign which aimed at making an NTAG216 based NFC implant for different purposes. I actually backed it, found that standard NFC readers don’t ...

Kinetic and JCDecaux have announced positive results for their NFC-enabled outdoor advertising pilot in Reading, UK. Launched this past March, the pilot saw more than 3,000 people scan the NFC-enabled ...

Apple’s flashy new iPhones are hogging the spotlight right now, but iOS 11 is arriving before they do – on September 19, the major mobile software update will be available for existing iPhone and iPad ...

Apple has been granted a patent (number 8,239,276 ) for an “On-the-go Shopping List” that hints at an NFC-capable barcode-reading shopping assistant. NFC (Near Field Communication) is a short-range ...

To hear most mobile companies tell it these days, you'd think that NFC (or near field communications) is only for mobile payments. That's not the case at all, of course, and a group of researchers at ...