
Near-field communications (NFC) is a technology that's getting a lot of coverage recently, thanks to its inclusion in the Google Nexus S and rumours that it'll be present in the iPhone 5. And one in five smartphones will feature NFC tech by 2014, according to forecasts by Juniper Research. But what is it, and what's it good for?
The first thing to know is that NFC is actually not new tech. It's an evolution of the radio-frequency identific [ … ]