More than 1.9 billion mobile boarding passes will be used by 2019, compared to 745 million estimated to be delivered in 2015 alone, Jupiter Research reports.

Apple Inc. has finally joined the NFC bandwagon with its own proprietary payment system: Apple Pay. 

Contactless payment methods can be used to pay for things even when they are nearly a meter away from a payment terminal, according to research from a team at Surrey University in the UK.

Want unlimited public transportation rides? According to two teenage Italian hackers, modifying the NFC-enabled fare cards is easier than it sounds. 

Pilot programs at Netflix and Good Technologies have proved successful for Near-Field Communication technology, including access control via smartphone.