Up until now most retailers have been deploying Apple’s iBeacon technology…
Tag: NFC
Apple patent reveals new iPhone antenna that adds NFC
An Apple patent surfacing today reveals a new antenna structure that will combine NFC…
NFC? Apple will not do payments; Apple will do authentication
Funny to see the Apple NFC rumours re-surface again this week…
Apple’s next-gen iPhone likely to include NFC payment functionality, source says
Apple is likely to incorporate a Near Field Communication (NFC) payment function…
Walgreens and Walmart testing iBeacon, Motorola Solutions launches iBeacon marketing platform
Walgreens-owned drugstore chain Duane Reade announced today…
Virgin Atlantic trials Apple iBeacon tech for iPhone users at London Heathrow Airport
Virgin Atlantic has chosen London Heathrow Airport to be the first airport in the world…
New York City bars to use Apple’s iBeacon for pub crawl promo
Companies continue to find new and interesting ways of implementing Apple’s iBeacon tech…
New sunglasses with iBeacon notify you when lost, act as beacons in retail
The first set of eye glasses with embedded iBeacon technology…
Privacy-sensitive Germans not biting into Apple’s iBeacon, yet
Since revelations that the U.S. spied on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone…
KGI Securities Kuo: Apple to include NFC in iPhone and iWatch
While Apple now offers iBeacons Bluetooth LE-based tech…
Not For Commerce: As Apple declines support, more retailers drop NFC
Apple’s refusal to support NFC on the iPhone…
Apple’s iBeacon: With great power comes great potential to delight or annoy
With the release of iOS 7.1 Apple made a tweak to a technology called iBeacon…
Why aren’t people freaking out about Apple’s iBeacon?
The new iOS 7.1, which Apple launched this week, contained massively-improved iBeacon…
Apple’s iOS 7.1 delivers major, game-changing iBeacon improvement
A major, game-changing improvement to iBeacon…
How advertisers can use your personal info to get you to pay higher prices
Imagine that you are halfway through the second week of a grueling diet…
Apple’s iBeacon and the future of retail store shopping
Mobile, mobile, mobile. It’s like the Marcia Brady of the retail industry…
Apple’s revolutionary iBeacon: Sometimes the biggest changes in technology have the smallest beginnings
In the summer of 2013, Apple announced iBeacon…
Company rolls out Apple’s iBeacon to grocery stores
Pretty soon, your iPhone might remind you to pick up laundry detergent…
Anybody else want an Apple ‘iServe home’ server with iBeacon accessories?
Apple has started iBeacon activations…
The Internet of iThings: Apple’s iBeacon already in 200 million iPhones and iPads
iBeacon is the most important new feature in iOS 7…
4 reasons why Apple’s iBeacon is about to disrupt interaction design
You step inside Walmart and your shopping list is transformed…
Apple’s revolutionary iWallet is coming
This week, Apple unveiled the first large-scale integration of iBeacon…
Apple could have 250 million iBeacon-capable units in the wild by 2014
Yesterday, Apple began a small press push on its new iBeacon technology…
Apple turns on iBeacon to guide shoppers at 254 U.S. retail stores
Apple Inc. will begin using the technology at its 254 U.S. stores to send you…
Bar deploys Apple’s iBeacon to give patrons free access to Newsstand magazines
Beacon, Apple’s hyperlocal trigger tech in iOS 7…
Apple’s location-tracking iBeacon is poised to explode across retail faster than anyone can imagine
Embedded in Apple’s iOS 7’s flashier interface and multitasking features…
iOS 7 users: Apple’s secret retail weapon is already in your pocket
It’s been a month since Apple unleashed iOS 7 onto the world…
Attention, retailers: With iBeacon, Apple has figured out mobile marketing
For some time now, manufacturers and retailers have looked for the best ways…
Apple leads, the rest follow: Google dumps NFC requirement in Google Wallet app
Today, Google announced it’s rolling out a new version of the Google Wallet…
Apple’s brilliant iBeacons system will enable purchases, contextual marketing, automated check-ins and much more
Apple won’t just kill cash registers. They’ll probably kill NFC, too…
Apple patent filing reveals fingerprint scanner with advanced NFC application built into the Home Button
When Apple revealed the iPhone 5 last year, many were confused…
New photos of iPhone 5S leak; could be biggest hardware upgrade ever for ‘S’ model
As Apple’s next-generation iPhone 5S enters mass productio…
Apple ‘iPhone 5S’ specs leak: 4-inch IGZO Retina display, NFC, 12MP camera, 2GB RAM, quad-core GPU, fingerprint reader, sources claim
Photos and hardware specifications of the iPhone 5S have leaked from the Chinese supply chain
Apple granted 30 patents covering wearable media players, multi-touch gesturing, simplified data transfers and more
The USPTO officially published a series of 30 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today…
Apple’s billion dollar mobile payment magic trick
Why would Apple reportedly be putting a fingerprint reader in its next iPhone…
Apple’s next-gen ‘iPhone 5S’ to feature fingerprint sensor, NFC-based ‘iWallet,’ sources say
A new report out of China claims that Apple has contracted…
AuthenTec’s sale of encryption unit hints Apple’s interest lies in NFC and fingerprint readers
NFC and contactless chip provider Inside Secure is to acquire the embedded security systems…
Apple inks deal with fingerprint security startup Microlatch
Despite leaving out near-field communications (NFC) technology…
Flaw in Samsung’s ‘TouchWiz’ UI leaves devices open to data-wiping
An attacker could load the code in a website, SMS, an NFC Android Beam connection or via a QR code…
Why omitting NFC in iPhone 5 should work out just fine for Apple
When Apple revealed its new Passbook mobile payment system as part of the iOS 6 preview…
NFC stands for Not For Commerce: Apple snubs emerging mobile payment standard
EBay Inc Chief Executive John Donahoe often quotes a merchant saying NFC stands…
Competition sets a high bar for Apple’s iPhone 5
Over the last 10 days, Samsung, Motorola and Nokia announced new smartphones…
