Tag: NFC

Google has purchased thousands of VeriFone's mobile payment registers, intending to install and test the system in stores in New York and San Francisco, according to Bloomberg. With this system, customers could pay for products with their Nexus S (or other smartphone equipped with a near-field communication chips) rather than using cash or physical credit and debit cards in stores. The anonymous ...

Share When we hear "Rosetta Stone," we think of the language learning software or the ancient artifact that proved to be the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. But if you turn that phrase into one word and give it a little Web 2.0 style camel-casing -- "RosettaStone" -- then you're actually talking about a futuristic gravestone accessory... and a lawsuit waiting to happen. ...

Here's another mouth-watering concept on display at CEATEC today: Toshiba's Media Server -- not to be confused with some kind of nefarious explosive device from an early episode of Doctor Who. It uses NFC to download files from your cell phone, which in turn can be displayed on a TV via WirelessHD. But best of all, it's shiny and looks nothing like some of the mundane media servers we've seen in ...