The release of Apple's NFC-enabled iOS 11 platform is helping to drive the growth of NFC deployments that are making an NFC tag certification program important, the association says.

Innovision Research & Technology is making its unique Gem™ Near Field Communication (NFC) semiconductor intellectual property (IP) available under an evaluation licensing program. This will enable ...

NFC Card Emulation has also been added to the NFC Forum Certification Program for the wearable market further expanding its eco-system to ensure interoperability wherever NFC is used.

NFC products that undergo software updates can achieve NFC Forum certification with a streamlined process, Inheritance by OS update ...

Credit card company Visa is ramping up its partner program to help integrate its payments technologies in mobile devices and platforms. The new initiative, called the Visa Ready Partner Program ...

The hardware works, and consumers worldwide think it's a cool idea. Still, near-field communication chips have made about zero progress morphing mobile phones into contactless payment tools.