If home automation in the IoT era has taught us anything, it is that no one wants to run wires. Many of us rent, so new cabling is not even an option, even if we wanted to go that route. If you want a ...

A patent application filed by Apple in Europe may have given us the clearest functionality of the iPhone 5S‘s home button. The forthcoming flagship smartphone expected to be unveiled Tuesday at a ...

A newly discovered Apple patent reveals how the iPhone’s redesigned Home button will work as a fingerprint scanner. It’s widely rumored the iPhone 5S will include a fingerprint scanner built into the ...

OSLO, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thinfilm Electronics ASA (“Thinfilm”) (OSE: THIN) (OTCQX: TFECY), a global leader in NFC (near-field communication) mobile marketing and smart product solutions, today ...

Apple’s support page says any smartphone with an NFC chip can tap on an AirTag set to ‘Lost Mode’ to find out who it belongs to. In Apple’s ‘Find My’ app, users can toggle a setting to lock the AirTag ...

iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max and iPhone XR include a new feature for NFC that Apple didn’t mention on stage. The new models will be able to scan NFC tags in the background. With current iPhones, users ...

When the iPhone 5 finally hit the masses, it was missing one major feature: NFC. While most every other major flagship smartphone has NFC and support for contact payments, bump sharing and the like, ...

The Federal Ministry of the Interior has announced that it will be possible to scan German ID cards with an iPhone running iOS 13. Apple originally locked the NFC reader in iPhones so that it only ...