Alaska Airlines will remove its traditional airport kiosks as part of a broader tech overhaul in cities including Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, aiming to get passengers through… Read More
Seven years after the arrival of the first Android phone with Near Field Communications (NFC), Apple is finally allowing developers access to the short-range wireless technology in its own devices.… Read More
Near Field Communication technology, or NFC, is starting to be embraced in commercial products everywhere, from the Apple Watch to customer loyalty keychains. For Seattle startup GoToTags, it’s an adoption wave… Read More
Amal Graafstra is used to hacking things to work for him. He has two RFIDs implanted, one in each hand, that he uses to unlock doors, start his motorcycle and… Read More
Not content to cede the realm of NFC-powered mobile payments to Apple and Google, Microsoft is in the midst of developing its own tap-to-pay service for Windows smartphones. Banking consultant… Read More
In a move that’s tailor-made to spite consumers who want to give them money, Rite Aid and CVS have switched off their NFC payment terminals to stop people from using… Read More
Entering your home with keys or logging into your PC with a password might be a thing of the past if the latest NFC technology from Dangerous Things catches on.… Read More
If you’ve always wanted to use Google Wallet, Google’s PayPal equivalent, but haven’t had a chance to because your phone wasn’t one of the anointed few allowed to run the… Read More
GoToTags founders Craig Tadlock and Keith Kegley saw an opportunity a few years ago when they realized that wireless sensor technology would become cheap enough for consumer use. Today, their… Read More
Your ORCA card probably contains a lot more publicly accesible information than you think. Crosscut is out today with a story about the ORCA (One Regional Card for All) card, a… Read More
Wireless carrier T-Mobile USA is facing a lawsuit over its near field communication (NFC) technology. Israel’s On Track Innovations (OTI), which has products that include the COPNI (Contactless Payment and… Read More
Google this morning unveiled plans for a new mobile app, Google Wallet, that will let people use their phones to pay for items at retail outlets — storing virtual versions… Read More
As an avid Foursquare user in Seattle, Brian Groth knows he isn’t experiencing all the benefits that someone might see in, say, New York or L.A.. But at this stage,… Read More