RFID technology allows you to simply tap or wave your credit card near a card reader or ATM. Using this technology to make purchases gives you the ability to complete transactions within seconds.

While RFID bank cards are a relative novelty in Europe, use is more commonplace in the US and Japan. Some Mobil petrol stations and McDonalds in the US are now carrying RFID credit card readers.

NEC has announced plans to launch a multi-format RFID card reader next April. A prototype of the new device, which is compatible with all three major wireless card formats along with a few others, was ...

Targeting the rapidly emerging market for embedded RFID readers, two companies are introducing low-cost multiprotocol RFID readers for installation in printers and other equipment. RFID reader ...

RFID works by emitting a signal from a card's chip when it comes into contact with a compatible reader. In retail settings, this happens with your knowledge — at a payment terminal.

ZKAccess, a division of ZKTeco and leading provider of biometric and RFID security solutions, has introduced the LR-UHF-12, an outdoor IP66-rated long-range125 kHz proximity card reader designed ...

The government hopes its new national ID cards will foster Internet-based commerce, by enabling citizens to use the cards and readers at home to carry out online transactions without putting their ...

RFID tag information can be communicated in real-time through WiFi, CDMA, GSM or Bluetooth connections. Ambrose Tam, Wireless Dynamics’ CEO, is so confident in the prospects for the SDiD card that he ...

A Las Vegas valley poker player explains how RFID cards work in response to a lawsuit filed against another player in California for cheating, allegedly raking in thousands of dollars.

But the one that stands out the most is the ability to learn the code from anther RFID tag or card. You can see that the board includes an etched coil to interact with an RFID reader.