NFC

Yesterday Google announced their long-rumoured NFC Android payment system, Google Wallet. The service was met with cautious optimism from the assembled press, and will begin trials in New York and San Francisco from today. PayPal however, aren’t very happy about the new product.

Google is holding a “partners event” today in the Big Apple, and its been all-but confirmed that the search giant will be launching its NFC payment system, the imaginatively-named Google Wallet , along with some retail partners.

Google is accelerating its march to join the mobile payment business by partnering with Citibank, Mastercard, Spring and several retailers including Macy’s, American Eagle and Subway. The company is expected …

On Monday news broke that Apple had a big surprise in store for punters this coming weekend to mark its 10 year retail anniversary. With talk of black curtains, hardware locked in back rooms ready for installation and employees pulling all nighters, many have been speculating whether Apple has a brand new device up its fruity sleeve. Others, however, claim it could be nothing more (or less) than a brand new NFC payment system.

With Near Field Communication (NFC) popping up in the news on an almost daily basis, it may finally be time to wonder when the great promise of every Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) might start impacting our daily lives. Significantly.

Walmart may be trying to get into your pocket – through social media that is – after purchasing silicon valley based Kosmix for an undisclosed sum, according to Reuters. The …

One in five smartphones will have NFC by 2014, according to a new Juniper research report.

Ahh PayPal, both a handy way to shift money around and a perpetual thorn in the side. Anyone who has used the service at any great length will no doubt have a story about the, shall we say, “quirks” that exist within the ubiquitous payment system.

The Internet has been abuzz with talks of near field communications and the future of the mobile wallet, and today Google Inc. announced a partnership that may take this buzz …

ORLANDO, Fla. – Imagine walking into Costco, opening up the store’s mobile application, and finding the exact brand of t-shirt you’re looking for within minutes; without having to speak to a …

Today’s highlights ran the gamut from payment apps to digital wallets, location-based services, and social gaming, to mobile apps for social good.

It wasn’t 3D stealing the show at this year’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, but near field communication (NFC), a technology thought to settle, once and for all, the “mobile wallet” and “mobile payment” discussion.

It looks as though all that whining may have finally paid off. In a tweet sent out by the @GoogleNexus twitter account, the big G announced to thunderous applause “Gingerbread (Android 2.3.3) update now rolling out to Nexus S and Nexus One.”