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The Core: Wireless home speakers with revolutionary holographic sound

Chris Burns | Sep 26, 2014

The Core is a wireless speaker system that connects to your iPhone or Android device and sounds like "two widely separated full size HiFi speakers." The Core can work with any device - OS X, Windows, iOS or Android included - just so long as it has Bluetooth. According to manufacturers Mass Fidelity, it relies on wave field synthesis to produce what they're describing as "acoustic holograms": sound that literally floats in space within your room.

iPhone 6 NFC will only work with Apple Pay

JC Torres | Sep 16, 2014

What's Apple's is Apple's, and Apple tends to keep it that way. Mobile payment businesses, like the renamed Softcard, looking forward to a flood of iPhone users will have to wait a bit longer, or maybe even forever. An Apple spokesperson has just confirmed that the NFC on the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus will work with Apple Pay and only with Apple Pay.

Here come the PowerShots: N2, G7 X, SX60 HS

Chris Burns | Sep 15, 2014

Three new PowerShot cameras are coming soon from Canon, the lot of which works with unique features made to advance the point-and-shoot universe - even as their competition hits the smartphone environment. The PowerShot N2 works with a flip-up touch panel and NFC. The G7 X works with a one-in sensor. The SX60 HS has a cool 65x Optical Zoom lens as well as a broad focal length: 21mm-1365mm.

Apple Pay gives Apple 0.15% of your purchase

Nate Swanner | Sep 12, 2014

Yesterday, we told you about Apple’s plans to monetize Apple Pay. By taking a small cut of the transaction fee a bank charges a merchant, Apple stands to make a large chunk of change. Now we get further details on just what kind of deals Apple may have struck with various institutions, and how much they really might be raking in.

Here’s how Apple Pay was kept a secret

Chris Davies | Sep 12, 2014

21 months of planning and negotiations, a "code name frenzy," and clandestine signaling to executives with real pieces of fruit: turns out, getting Apple Pay off the ground without letting the cat out of the mobile payments bag wasn't easy. Details of the cloak of secrecy used to keep hundreds of people across eight different financial institutions from spilling the beans on Apple's big cashless announcement this week have emerged, and it's just as obsessive as you might have expected.

Apple Pay’s secret weapon: stores and brands

Chris Burns | Sep 9, 2014

If the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus’ secret weapon is Apple Pay, then Apple Pay’s secret weapon is McDonalds, Nike, Subway, and Disney. These are amongst the many top-level stores Apple has made deals with for Apple Pay right out the gate.

NFC on the iPhone 6: secure and subtle

Nate Swanner | Sep 9, 2014

Apple’s iPhone 6 has long been rumored to have NFC, and today Apple made it official. In announcing their NFC system, Apple made sure to tout the security of the program, and discuss how easy NFC payments can be. While we’ve seen NFC payments work before, it’s just never been this well done.

Apple may be working on rewards system for mobile payments

Nate Swanner | Sep 8, 2014

Here’s something different: it seems Apple is working on a real motivating factor to have merchants sign on for their mobile payment platform. It’s believed Apple is working on a rewards program for users who use their payment processing system, which could utilize NFC.

You may use iPhone 6 to pay in CVS and Walgreens

Chris Davies | Sep 5, 2014

Apple has reportedly convinced Walgreens and CVS to join its rumored mobile payment system, with the two huge pharmacy chains the latest participants in what's expected to be announced next week. Earlier this month, Apple was said to have brought key payments providers MasterCard, Visa, and American Express onboard, as it readies the new iPhone 6.

Nokia Screen Sharing pipes Lumia to TV via NFC coaster

Chris Davies | Sep 4, 2014

How many times have you bothered connecting your smartphone to your TV? Microsoft is aiming to make the answer "at least once" with the new Screen Sharing for Lumia Phones, a circular set-top box with a companion NFC plate intended to ease the pairing process.

Toshiba wants TransferJet to replace NFC

JC Torres | Sep 1, 2014

Apple may have just joined the NFC game, if rumors are true, but it seems that there's already a challenger to the technology already in sight. That is, at least, if Toshiba has its way. It wants TransferJet to become the de facto standard technology when it comes to fast, wireless data transfer instead of NFC which, in all honesty, is something that is just starting to get a foothold.

Apple tipped to unveil iPhone Wallet next week

JC Torres | Sep 1, 2014

Whenever Apple announces a new iPhone, it announces an entire ecosystem to go along with it. According to a source who shall not be named, part of that new ecosystem will be the iPhone Wallet, a mobile payment system that will try to venture in a retail world where others have gone to little or no success.