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NFC's Stuttering Start

As 2011 winds to a close and 2012 begins, we do a little bit of Fast Company drumbeating. We predict a lot of stuff around here. Sometimes we're wrong. But we also nailed a few things this year. Throughout this year we've talked about NFC's immediate future...READ»

In The Messy NFC Battle, Consumers Are The Biggest Losers

The competition for your digital wireless NFC wallet is already raging, ahead of mass launches next year. As the prime players squabble, the real losers are clear: you and me.READ»

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The Race For Mobile Payments

The fight is on to turn your smartphone into a wallet. Who will win?READ»

PayPal Buys Zong To Ensure Its Mobile-Payments Future

PayPal has handed over nearly a quarter of a billion dollars to buy Zong, a leading provider of mobile payments. It's safe to say PayPal is serious about future innovations in mobile-pay tech.READ»

Austin Will Be Among The First "Wave And Pay" Cities

Tech-savvy Texans will be some of the first in the U.S. to experience comprehensive NFC-driven mobile commerce, thanks to ISIS. Pretty soon, you'll be able to leave your wallet at home.READ»

Google's NFC-Powered Digital Wallet: Room For Your Shopping Lists, Credit Cards ... And Complete Trust

Square's gone after the clunky old cash register. Now Google's trying to reinvent how we pay for even more things. It's just revealed Wallet, the first big-name, large scale rollout of NFC wireless wave-and-pay next generation credit cards.READ»

Google, ISIS Plotting The Downfall Of The Magnetic-Strip Credit Card

Google is poised to reveal ambitious NFC credit card plans, and ISIS has its own ideas about how to revolutionize payment systems. How the demise of the magnetic-strip card will change the way we pay for stuff. READ»

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iFive: AT&T Confirms Late iPhone 5, Spotify Battles iTunes, U.S. DVD Sales Slide, ISIS Joins Credit Co.'s, Airline Streams Vids

Welcome to the middle of the week. Here's our early news summary, to speed you into the second half:READ»

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DARPA's Smart Blimp: Mysterious, Hovering Future of Battlefield Surveillance

In the future DARPA's ISIS blimp may be hovering above the horizon near to conflict zones, feeding real time radar data to troops and smart weapons from on high. True to its name, it's also a little more magical than the Goodyear ...READ»