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Samsung Telecommunications America has upgraded the TecTile application, which programs NFC stickers to automate functions on its smartphones. The most talked-about application for NFC (Near Field ...

Forget about mobile payments, Samsung wants you to use your smartphone’s Near Field Communication (NFC) chip to complete tasks at home, the office and in your car. Samsung announced that it will sell ...

You’ve probably used WiFi and Bluetooth but, there’s a neat feature inside many smartphones you might not even know about. It’s called Near Field Communication (NFC) and it can help you ditch your ...

One tiny sticker, one quick tap—and suddenly a few of those “don’t forget” tasks stop living in your head. It’s a small tech tweak with a big parenting payoff. The mental load of family life—tracking ...

When we reviewed the Samsung Galaxy S III back in June, we had a chance to look at a cool use of NFC technology using Samsung's TecTile programmable NFC stickers and the corresponding TecTile Android ...

Only a few days into its Indiegogo campaign, this buzzworthy product now includes a two-button version and phone-specific cases. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, ...

NFC tags are cool, but programming them to do your bidding – whether unlocking your computer, making an Arduino vending machine, or a smart home application – requires using an NFC device to program ...