NFC tags and readers communicate wirelessly with each other over very short distances. Tags store a small amount of data on them that is sent to the reader in the form of electromagnetic pulses.

NFC Forum, the leading standards body for Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, launched a Proof-of-Concept Mobile Reader application for Android ...

Bluebird's new device is a phone, an RFID and NFC reader, and a barcode scanner, making it easier to manage hospital inventory or patients.

A loophole in Android allows a niche scenario to leak credit card details via an NFC reader even when the phone is locked.

If you've used NFC before, whether to open smart locks or to make payments, then you know that you need to tap the back of your phone against the reader and you have to be relatively precise in ...

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 ...

An NFC phone, together with a modified android app, allegedly hacks ATMs and POS systems. Here's how?

It seems that Android 15 Beta 1 is breaking NFC functionality, in addition to causing other bugs that affect the device stability.