When iOS 13 arrives, iPhones will be able to read a wider range of Near Field Communication (NFC) tags, including the NFC tags often used in official documentation. Last week, The Verge reported that ...

FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Socket Mobile, Inc. (SCKT), a leading provider of data capture and delivery solutions designed to enhance workplace productivity, is excited to announce ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Nfc Interactor is a new app available for Windows Phone that enables users to create and scan NFC ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...