This week, Near Field Communication (NFC) tag manufacturers have begun taking part in a new certification program provided worldwide by the NFC Forum, to ensure that their NFC chips and inlays conform ...

We've shown you how plastic discs or tags can start timers, play music, send notifications, and more just by tapping your phone on them. It's because in these discs, are a computer chip and antenna.

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The NFC Forum has released specs for four separate, interoperable NFC tags. Two of the tags are based on the ISO 14443 A standard, one on the 14443 B standard, and the final on Sony’s FeliCa ...

Managing phone settings all day long gets exhausting. I'd fidget with apps constantly—opening Spotify while backing out of the driveway, hunting for Do Not Disturb when sitting down to work, or ...

O2’s consumer trial of Near Field Communication (NFC) starting this week will see NFC tags being used by mobile phone subscribers for the first time in the UK. The Topaz tags, provided by Innovision ...

If there's a way to shave time off your daily routines, you'd try it, right? Lesser-known smart stickers — NFC tags — might not look like much, but these tiny gadgets can help make your household ...

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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 revolve ...