Nokia's design chief Marko Ahtisaari has told The Guardian that the mobile giant is working on a Windows Phone handset that uses NFC technology to connect with external accessories, and also hinted at smartphones with wireless charging.

It...

We've Nintendo Wii U news aplenty following bossman Satoru Iwata's comments following the latest earnings call by the Japanese gaming giant.

First up is confirmation of what we all kind of knew already - that the next-generation console is...

One of the new features coming to the Sony Xperia S is NFC. NFC is great where you have an infrastructure that supports it, but what if you have no use for NFC?

Well, Sony (née Sony Ericsson) have put NFC to use in automating tasks on your...

Parrot has revealed its new Zik headphones designed by Phillipe Starck, which bring together a massive amount of audio technology in smooth, standout styling.

And when we say packed with cutting edge tech, we mean it. First off, the Zik headphones...

2012 is here, but what will we be talking about for the next 12 months, what will be the big trends of 2012, and what will dominate the headlines?

The easy answer is Apple, but that's boring, so instead prepare yourself to be talking a lot...

PayPal has recently given a glimpse of the way it sees future in-store payments taking place with a new PayPal Wallet, which it hopes will replace all your existing debit and credit cards cluttering up your wallet.

The new PayPal Wallet system...

The BlackBerry Bold 9900 and the BlackBerry Curve 9360 are the world's first SIM-based NFC smartphones to be MasterCard PayPass approved, Research in Motion has announced.

What this means is that the devices have met the financial giant's guidelines...

The Twitter co-founder's credit card service Square, has announced that it will be selling its Square credit card readers in Walmart - expanding the product outside of tech-based shopping outlets.

Previously the Square card reader was only...

Nokia has posted a YouTube video that highlights some of the gaming possibilities that Near Field Communication (NFC) can bring to a Nokia handset, or any mobile for that matter.

Shot at the Nokia offices in Palo Alto, California - see Nokia...

Talking at Asia D, Andy Lees spoke of the possibility that 2012 will see the introduction of NFC and the and a way that hardware manufactures can "add value" and extend and vary hardware on Windows Phone 7.

This comes on the back of a feeling...

Android Beam is just one of the little tweaks to come out of Google's Ice Cream Sandwich update, and with it comes the ability to nudge data across phones - essentially, tap-to-share functionality.

Admittedly this is nothing new as it was a...

Who said that NFC was all about payments? Not Nokia it seems. It has just announced the launch of a new Bluetooth headset that comes with NFC-enabled pairing to make things a whole lot easier.

The brightly coloured Nokia Luna Bluetooth Headset...

The Nokia 603 is the Finnish company’s latest Symbian Belle handset as the company continues to push out non Windows Phone 7 smartphones before the big unveil at Nokia World at the end of October.

This time around, the NFC-packing Nokia...

HTC has been coy about adding NFC to its smartphones to date, but that could all be about to change after the company, along with Sharp and ZTE, announced that it is joining the NFC forum.

The NFC Forum, the non-profit industry association...

Nokia has announced the NFC hub, a tool to help businesses develop NFC orientated marketing campaigns.

The idea behind NFC hub is to make it easier to use the technology and as such encourage businesses to take advantage of the marketing potential...