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📅 September 9, 2014

Apple Announces Apple Pay, For Handling Mobile Purchases

Apple today announced Apple Pay, a new category of service that will transform mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay.

Apple today announced Apple Pay, a new category of service that will transform mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay. Apple Pay works with iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus through a groundbreaking NFC antenna design, a dedicated chip called the Secure Element, and the security and convenience of Touch ID. Apple Pay is easy to set up, so hundreds of millions of users can simply add their credit or debit card on file from their iTunes Store account. Apple Pay will also work with the newly announced Apple Watch, extending Apple Pay to over 200 million owners of iPhone 5, iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s worldwide.

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📅 September 9, 2014

Apple To Releases iOS 8 on September 17th

With new iPhones comes new software, so with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus going on sale soon iOS 8 should be on its way too.

With new iPhones comes new software, so with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus going on sale soon iOS 8 should be on its way too. Apple confirmed that the next-fen iOS will arrive next week, on September 17th, as a free download. In case you’re wondering, iOS 8 will be able to run on:

iPhone 4s and up
iPad 2 and up
Fifth-gen iPod Touch

The iOS has not been changed much since we last seen it at WWDC back in June ( and you can read about it here ), but it will include Apple Pay – a new feature that allows iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus users to make payments via NFC.

📅 September 9, 2014

Apple Releases The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus

The wait is finally over. Apple has officially revealed its new flagship… iPhones? Yes, for the first time in iPhone history, Apple has released 2 iPhone versions – the iPhone 6 Plus with a 5.5-inch screen and the iPhone 6 with a 4.7-inch screen.

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📅 February 19, 2014

BLE vs NFC [infographic]

Bluetooth Low Energy ( BLE ) and Near Filed Communication ( NFC ) are playing a key role in helping mobile technologies redefine how businesses and consumers engage with one another.

Bluetooth Low Energy ( BLE ) and Near Filed Communication ( NFC ) are playing a key role in helping mobile technologies redefine how businesses and consumers engage with one another. This infographic compares Bluetooth Low Energy and NFC, side-by-side.

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📅 December 20, 2013

Happy Holidays: The 2,000 iPhone 5S Domino Chain [video]

The guys at AatmaStudio are back again this year with a 2000 iPhone 5s’ ‘Happy Holidays’ domino chain to illustrate the possible NFC feature that we might get with the next gen iPhones.

The guys at AatmaStudio are back again this year with a 2000 iPhone 5s’ ‘Happy Holidays’ domino chain to illustrate the possible NFC feature that we might get with the next gen iPhones. Just like their 10,000 iPhone 5s domino chain video, the iPhones in this video are not actual iPhones. It’s just CGI. Still a great video…

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📅 July 29, 2013

NFC Ring: One Smart Ring, Unlimited Possibilities [video]

The NFC Ring can be used to unlock doors, mobile phones, transfer information and link people.

The NFC Ring can be used to unlock doors, mobile phones, transfer information and link people. Best of all the NFC Ring glides right onto your finger – no updates, no charging, and no fuss. The NFC Ring comes with two inlays, public and private so you can keep personal information as private as you want.

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📅 April 17, 2013

Check Out This 10,000 iPhone 5s Domino Chain [video]

The guys at AatmaStudio have created a 10,000 iPhone 5 ( meant to be iPhone 5S ) domino chain to illustrate the possible NFC feature that we might get with the next gen iPhone ( but most probably with iPhone 6 ). Note that only the first iPhone is a real physical object, the rest of 9,999 iPhones are CGI.

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📅 April 5, 2013

Apple To Launch E-Wallet Service by 2014 [rumor]

Gene Munster, the famous analyst with Piper Jaffray, has a big hunch that Apple will release an e-wallet in the coming years. Some have suggested the e-wallet would feature fingerprint scanning, but Munster says we’re a long ways from that and probably won’t see the service until 2014.

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📅 February 5, 2013

CalypsoCase: NFC Equipped Case For The iPhone [video]

Of all the features your iPhone 5 offers, there’s one it doesn’t: NFC compatibility. Fix this oversight by protecting it in a CalypsoCase with CalypsoKey.

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📅 February 1, 2012

Confirmation Of Apple’s NFC Aspirations From MasterCard Chief

In a recent interview with FastCompany, Ed McLaughlin, Chief of Emerging Payments at MasterCard, inadvertently confirms that Apple is indeed planning to enter the mobile payments business.

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