Web security provider Zvelo has uncovered a way crack the Google Wallet PIN security feature. Using an app called “Wallet Cracker,” Zvelo was able to expose the PIN of a Google Wallet account without entering a single invalid attempt – five invalid attempts and the wallet locks out. Check out the video for a demonstration: […]

Nokia has revealed a new application for smart phones that translates what you say into another language and transmits the message to another user via NFC. According to GigaOm, “Nokia Hello” combines NFC with existing speech-to-text translation technology to enable two people who speak different languages to have a conversation by tapping their phones together. […]

VingCard Elsafe, provider of hospitality security and part of ASSA ABLOY Group, has been selected by Grand Hyatt San Francisco to provide a complete package of VingCard Elsafe solutions for installation as part of the renovation of its 659 guestrooms. The completed renovation of the 38-story Union Square hotel features the addition of VingCard’s Orion […]

Exclusive to Sprint since its launch in 2011, Google Wallet is now being offered on Samsung Galaxy Nexus phones from AT&T and Verizon, according to BriefMobile. Verizon had originally blocked Google Wallet on the Galaxy Nexus – presumably out of defense of its own NFC payments joint venture Isis with AT&T and T-Mobile. But now […]

Nokia is developing a Windows Phone model that can connect to other devices and charge wirelessly via NFC, Nokia design chief Marko Ahtisaari has revealed to the Guardian. The device is expected to be the new version of the Lumia 800, a Windows 7 handset that Nokia introduced in November 2011 without NFC. Microsoft’s latest […]

Viv.ie, a start-up located in Ireland working on face recognition technology, announced it is finishing a new type of facial recognition technology that does away with a number of the security pitfalls current facial recognition technology is commonly guilty of, according to a Sydney Morning Herald article. Face recognition had gained some traction in the […]

Oberthur Technologies partnered with Ingecom to integrate a high-frequency chip and antenna into a SIM card, enabling mobile phone users to communicate with a receiver located up to 15-meters away. While Near Field Communications (NFC) technology enables transactions over a few centimeters, this “AirSIM” prototype enables for “wide field” communications over a much greater distance, […]

HID Global has announced the successful completion of the world’s first university pilot of NFC smart phones carrying digital keys. First announced in September, the pilot involved a select group of students and staff at Arizona State University using NFC-enabled smart phones equipped with HID’s Secure Identity Object (SIO) Technology. Participants could gain access to […]

Ed McLaughlin, MasterCard’s head of Emerging Payments, has some good news for those waiting on NFC-enabled phones for contactless payments. In an interview with Fast Company, McLaughlin said that he didn’t know of a handset maker who wasn’t working on integrating support for PayPass contactless payments. When pressed by FC about whether this statement included […]

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has revealed that the forthcoming Wii U game controller will feature embedded NFC technology. According to Iwata, the NFC controller will contain the same contactless standards used in FeliCa and Mifare products, enabling it to interact with a variety of different NFC-tagged objects to enrich the gaming experience. “By installing this […]