You knew that NFC hardware can be embedded into SIM cards, right? Right? Regardless of whether you've been paying attention, the practice is about to become a whole lot more common, as 45 of the world's largest mobile operators have extended their support for the GSM Association's standard. Among the networks, you'll find heavy hitters such as China Mobile a... Read more
NFC, the technology that can help turn a mobile handset into an instant, superpower payment device, has been long on promise but largely short on delivery. But today, the France Telecom-owned mobile o... Read more
Global mobile industry body GSMA has launched a new platform called OneAPI Exchange, which will allow consumers to pay and authenticate for mobile apps through their phone numbers. The organization h... Read more
NFC's potential uses are numerous -- contactless mobile payments, automated actions and content sharing to name a few -- but aside from its scattered inclusion in a limited number of handsets in the U... Read more
The future of Motorola's smartphones are now falling into place, and we couldn't be more excited. Following the FCC certification of the XT1058 for AT&T, a similar test report for the XT1056 has just ... Read more
Japan, one of the most advanced mobile nations in the world, doesn't want to be a "cell phone Galapagos" anymore, at least when it comes to payments over NFC. Paying with cell phones is already ubiqui... Read more
Near-field communications (NFC) is far from being a standard in mobile payments, but the wave-and-pay technology may have gotten its biggest vot Read more
It didn't take long for HTC to go official with the Desire 600. Interestingly, it picks up on several of the new Sense 5 features revealed alongside the HTC One, including its fingertip-baiting BlinkF... Read more
It looks like just 10 percent of mobile data traffic will be based on 4G networks in 2017, according to Cisco Systems annual mobile forecast. Its significant growth from the extent of todays 4G deploy... Read more