One of the advances in Google’s new Gingerbread release of Android and the Samsung Nexus S is support for NFC (near field communication). NFC is a wireless mechanism for transmitting short pieces of ...

You probably won’t see the Wallet Cracker app in the Android Market anytime soon. That’s not because it doesn’t work; it actually works perfectly, which is the problem. In a video posted by security ...

Google is reportedly working on a new feature that would allow you to more easily add your credit and debit cards to its Wallet service. The contactless feature doesn’t yet have a functional ...

Google is rumored to have a "tap-to-add" card function in development for Wallet. Signs in a Play Services beta suggest Google could let users hold their card close to their phones to add their card ...

While that may be true, the acquisition’s unintended consequence is that Google could emerge as the gorilla in the mobile-payment space. Companies are fighting to control mobile transactions—payments ...

Google has been on a multi-year journey to kill fragmentation in the Android ecosystem. When I’m talking about Android fragmentation, I’m referring to how there are many, many different ...

The NFC Forum is looking to advance the standard with a “multi-purpose tap” concept that combines payments with other common interactions. The idea is to make each transaction richer and faster. If ...

Android 15 is set to revolutionize how devices charge by potentially enabling NFC (near-field communication) technology. Commonly used for contactless payments and to charge phones wirelessly, this ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The latest Android 15 dev preview also improves volume consistency and contactless NFC payments. The latest ...

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 is reportedly making a hardware change to the benefit of mobile payments, with a second NFC antenna reportedly being added to the top of the device. As it stands today, most ...