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The All Facebook blog reports that Facebook is issuing RFID tags to all the delegates attending its f8 developer conference: All attendees of the f8 developer conference are receiving special RFID tags that enable them... More

The latest in a host of near field communication-related patent applications from Apple covers the use of an NFC-enabled iPhone for buying an airline ticket and for checking in baggage. As well as a manned... More

Gadget blog Gizmodo has got its hands on what appears to be an early version of the next iPhone, expected to be released later this year. Gizmodo got hold of the device after it was... More

Yet another NFC-related Apple patent application has been published, this time targeting the concert, entertainment and sports ticketing sectors. 'System and method for providing electronic event tickets' uses iTunes and near field communication to deliver... More

OPINION: While the steady stream of new NFC patent applications from Apple over the last few months has been interesting, it has been important to not get too excited — there's a big difference between a company filing a patent application and actually building a new technology into its products. This week, however, everything has changed. More

A series of new patent applications demonstrate that Apple has a clear business model in place for the introduction of a comprehensive mobile payments, mobile commerce and mobile marketing business based around an NFC-enabled iPhone. More

A further four patent applications filed by Apple and relating to both NFC and mobile payments have now been published, clearly signalling that the company's interest in near field communication technology goes well beyond simply... More

A newly published Apple patent application explains how near field communication could be used to enable a wide range of devices to share resources within a connected 'Apple TV Living Room'. More

A new patent application sees Apple using the term 'trusted service', hinting at the company's potential to play a major role as a Trusted Service Manager for mainstream mobile applications and, perhaps, for mobile payments and NFC. More

A new technology from US start-up Bump, which lets consumers use phones equipped with accelerometers to make peer-to-peer payments and share images or contact details, has been adopted by PayPal for its new Send Money service. More

A slot on device that enables NFC functionality to be added to Apple iPhones has been announced by Canadian NFC and RFID specialist Wireless Dynamics. The iCarte 110 is designed to neatly slot onto the... More

Hot on the heels of the news that Apple has an RFID-enabled iPhone prototype, a new patent application provides details of how the company sees NFC being used to make it easy for customers to transfer files between devices such as the Mac, iPhone and Apple TV. More

Twitter chairman and cofounder Jack Dorsey is working on a new start up that is developing an iPhone attachment which will enable iPhones to be used to make payments, according to recent reports. Believed to... More

Einar Rosenberg, the chief technology officer at NFC specialist Narian Technologies and who runs the Near Field Communications Group on Linkedin.com, has reported the following: Had to share this news. A highly reliable source has... More

A patent application for a 'Touch Screen RFID Tag Reader', filed by Apple in December 2007, has been published on the US Patent & Trademark Office website.  More