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Tag: NFC

NFC, wireless charging, improved LTE rumored for Apple’s ‘iPhone 6’

Monday, June 9, 2014 12:27 pmMonday, June 9, 201423 Comments

New high-resolution photos surfaced over the weekend showing…

Apple expected fully unveil iBeacon plans at WWDC today

Monday, June 2, 2014 8:55 amMonday, June 2, 20141 Comment

Apple Inc.’s latest product to carry the ‘i’ prefix…

GE integrates iBeacon into new LED light fixtures, Walmart installing in stores worldwide

Thursday, May 29, 2014 1:02 pmThursday, May 29, 201432 Comments

Up until now most retailers have been deploying Apple’s iBeacon technology…

Apple patent reveals new iPhone antenna that adds NFC

Thursday, May 22, 2014 11:28 amThursday, May 22, 201410 Comments

An Apple patent surfacing today reveals a new antenna structure that will combine NFC…

NFC? Apple will not do payments; Apple will do authentication

Thursday, May 15, 2014 2:01 pmThursday, May 15, 20146 Comments

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

Monday, May 12, 2014 10:26 amThursday, May 15, 201418 Comments

Apple is likely to incorporate a Near Field Communication (NFC) payment function…

Walgreens and Walmart testing iBeacon, Motorola Solutions launches iBeacon marketing platform

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 5:33 pmWednesday, May 7, 201415 Comments

Walgreens-owned drugstore chain Duane Reade announced today…

Virgin Atlantic trials Apple iBeacon tech for iPhone users at London Heathrow Airport

Friday, May 2, 2014 5:30 pmFriday, May 2, 20147 Comments

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

Monday, April 28, 2014 5:35 pmMonday, April 28, 201414 Comments

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

Monday, April 28, 2014 1:31 pmMonday, April 28, 20148 Comments

The first set of eye glasses with embedded iBeacon technology…

Privacy-sensitive Germans not biting into Apple’s iBeacon, yet

Friday, April 11, 2014 2:01 pmFriday, April 11, 201411 Comments

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

Friday, April 11, 2014 8:58 amFriday, April 11, 201420 Comments

While Apple now offers iBeacons Bluetooth LE-based tech…

Not For Commerce: As Apple declines support, more retailers drop NFC

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 6:31 pmMonday, March 2, 201513 Comments

Apple’s refusal to support NFC on the iPhone…

Apple’s iBeacon: With great power comes great potential to delight or annoy

Monday, March 17, 2014 10:12 pmTuesday, March 18, 201415 Comments

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?

Sunday, March 16, 2014 12:09 pmSunday, March 16, 201421 Comments

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

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:32 pmTuesday, March 11, 201422 Comments

A major, game-changing improvement to iBeacon…

How advertisers can use your personal info to get you to pay higher prices

Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:30 pm6 Comments

Imagine that you are halfway through the second week of a grueling diet…

Apple’s iBeacon and the future of retail store shopping

Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:31 amTuesday, January 21, 20144 Comments

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

Monday, January 13, 2014 1:01 pmMonday, January 13, 201413 Comments

In the summer of 2013, Apple announced iBeacon…

Company rolls out Apple’s iBeacon to grocery stores

Monday, January 6, 2014 3:27 pm19 Comments

Pretty soon, your iPhone might remind you to pick up laundry detergent…

Anybody else want an Apple ‘iServe home’ server with iBeacon accessories?

Wednesday, December 18, 2013 1:32 pmWednesday, December 18, 201316 Comments

Apple has started iBeacon activations…

The Internet of iThings: Apple’s iBeacon already in 200 million iPhones and iPads

Monday, December 16, 2013 11:01 amMonday, December 16, 20133 Comments

iBeacon is the most important new feature in iOS 7…

4 reasons why Apple’s iBeacon is about to disrupt interaction design

Wednesday, December 11, 2013 11:21 amWednesday, December 11, 201321 Comments

You step inside Walmart and your shopping list is transformed…

Apple’s revolutionary iWallet is coming

Tuesday, December 10, 2013 9:29 amMonday, January 6, 201411 Comments

This week, Apple unveiled the first large-scale integration of iBeacon…

Apple could have 250 million iBeacon-capable units in the wild by 2014

Saturday, December 7, 2013 11:11 amSaturday, December 7, 201324 Comments

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

Friday, December 6, 2013 8:39 amFriday, December 6, 201314 Comments

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

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 8:58 amWednesday, December 4, 201321 Comments

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

Friday, October 25, 2013 1:00 pmFriday, October 25, 201333 Comments

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

Wednesday, October 16, 2013 11:03 am30 Comments

It’s been a month since Apple unleashed iOS 7 onto the world…

Attention, retailers: With iBeacon, Apple has figured out mobile marketing

Friday, October 11, 2013 3:06 pm14 Comments

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

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 2:00 pmWednesday, September 18, 20139 Comments

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

Saturday, September 14, 2013 10:38 amSaturday, September 14, 201340 Comments

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

Saturday, September 7, 2013 11:03 amSunday, September 8, 201339 Comments

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

Thursday, July 18, 2013 5:01 pmThursday, July 18, 201323 Comments

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

Monday, July 15, 2013 3:32 pm44 Comments

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

Tuesday, June 4, 2013 9:15 am5 Comments

The USPTO officially published a series of 30 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today…

Apple’s billion dollar mobile payment magic trick

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 4:01 pmWednesday, March 20, 201323 Comments

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

Monday, March 11, 2013 3:01 pmTuesday, April 9, 201323 Comments

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

Monday, November 19, 2012 2:30 pmMonday, November 19, 20125 Comments

NFC and contactless chip provider Inside Secure is to acquire the embedded security systems…

Apple inks deal with fingerprint security startup Microlatch

Wednesday, October 3, 2012 5:00 pmWednesday, October 3, 201218 Comments

Despite leaving out near-field communications (NFC) technology…

Flaw in Samsung’s ‘TouchWiz’ UI leaves devices open to data-wiping

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 4:00 pmTuesday, September 25, 201226 Comments

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

Friday, September 14, 2012 11:32 amFriday, September 14, 201220 Comments

When Apple revealed its new Passbook mobile payment system as part of the iOS 6 preview…

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