NFC technology allows you to trigger actions on your phone by tapping the back of the device to another NFC-enabled point of contact.

Inside Secure plans to deliver a version of its open-source, near-field communication API tailored to Android 2.3 operating system — code-named Gingerbread — before the end of February.

A long time ago, Google started decoupling some key components from the Android system itself, making them so-called Mainline modules that can be updated independently of the system. This allows ...

Security researcher Charlie Miller has revealed flaws in the way NFC is handled on Android that would allow a hacker to execute malicious code on your handset.