Google is preparing to deprecate Android Beam in the next version of Android, which is Q, if commits found on AOSP are of any indication.
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CVS finally accepting mobile payments like Apple Pay, Google Pay
Yes, even contactless cards are being accepted at the registers these days. What took the United States's largest drugstore chain so long to adapt?
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Third-party NFC development may begin with iOS 12
Apple Pay is currently all that can be used through the NFC chip on all modern iPhones, but that could soon change as early as this fall.
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Mexico now has Samsung Pay
It's second behind Brazil to get the mobile payments system which will be available for cards from three issuers and several banks.
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Wells Fargo launches more than 5,000 ATMs with NFC support
Android Pay, Apple Pay and Samsung Pay users or those with the Wells Fargo Wallet app can simply tap into an ATM, enter their PIN and withdraw.
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Apple takes Swatch to Swiss court for Bellamy’s eerily familiar ‘Tick different’ slogan
It's almost like Swatch wanted to enrage Apple, first with a "One more thing trademark", then by using a "Tick different" Bellamy ad motto.
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Original Huawei Watch with Android Pay? Reports in dispute
Huawei Australia told a domestic outlet that the Android Wear 2.0 update would bring Android Pay to the original Huawei Watch. Huawei US? Not so.
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Charge your phone via NFC; Sony just patented phone-to-phone wireless charging
According to a recent Sony patent filing, phone-to-phone wireless charging would be possible via NFC sometime in the future. What do you think?
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Sporty Huawei Watch 2 shows up in three colors, no rotating crown, and possibly, no NFC in tow
Leaked pre-MWC renders showcase a far less stylish Huawei Watch 2 than its acclaimed predecessor, and rumor has it there's no NFC on deck either.
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LG Watch Sport antennas are in the non-replaceable bands
Maybe that's why you won't be able to replace them with other bands and why accessories manufacturers won't be making any.
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Apple Pay makes official Japan debut with Suica support for public transport use
While the “Land of the Rising Sun” is often at the forefront of innovation across multiple tech industry segments, occasionally getting dibs on dreamy variants of popular smartphones, the world’s fastest-growing mobile payment service needed quite a bit of time to reach Japanese shores.Originally launched way back in October 2014 stateside, then finally expanded to the UK in summer 2015, and further brought to countries like Canada,
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Samsung Gear S3 announcement brings Classic and Frontier designs, more technology
Update: This story has been updated with information from the launch event.With all due respect to other companies’ wearables to be showcased at IFA Berlin this year, the only real smartwatch of Note (heh) that’s garnered enough buzz to be watched is
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NFC payment ring completes Olympic beta tests, moves on to public pre-orders
Worn by “the world’s greatest athletes” at the recently concluded Summer Games in Rio in a very shrewd publicity stunt that likely doubled as a mighty convenient pre-release beta trial, the Visa-powered NFC Ring finally seems (just about) ready for primetime and the contactless-paying masses.No need to continue carrying around a bulky smartphone or wearing an expensive smartwatch on your wrist to conduct easy, secure on-the-go transactions. This sleek, low-profile yet stylish and affordable ...
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Wallet 2.0 for Windows 10 Mobile avails NFC Tap to Pay
Microsoft is finally going to catch up to the Joneses on the mobile payments frontier with the release of its Wallet 2.0 app for Windows 10 Mobile. There’s one big addition that arguably should’ve been working since 1.0 and that’s the ability to Tap to Pay using NFC.Windows ...
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Wells Fargo Wallet, because you don’t want Apple Pay or Android Pay working with other banks
It’s true that we’re not being fair to one of the largest banks in the US with that headline. After all, you can put your Wells Fargo cards onto both Android Pay and Apple Pay. But for a bank to launch its own mobile payments app that boasts exclusive compatibility with its own ATMs doesn’t seem fair to us.Wells Fargo Wallet will be integrated into the Wells Fargo Android app and can tap into NFC terminals and Wells Fargo ATMs. The bank stated that more than 40 percent of its ATMs will be ...
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