Bologna Gugliemo Marconi Airport has launched a Near Field Communication (NFC) RFID and Bluetooth beacon solution that allows commuters to access content about the airport, as well as the city beyond, ...

Today Estimote has announced a rather significant update to its wireless Proximity Beacons. The Google Eddystone-compatible beacons, which aim to give users contextual experiences on smartphones and ...

Twenty-five years ago the Internet was in its infancy and digital signage as we know it didn’t exist. Fast-forward to just a decade ago and digital signage is an emerging technology with a multitude ...

iBeacon was a tiny throwaway detail on a slide Apple showed about iOS 7 during its WWDC presentations earlier this year. But as GigaOm points out, more details about the service have emerged thanks to ...

Point-of-sale proximity payments use beacon technology that allows mobile payments to be accepted not just using NFC technology such as Apple Pay, but also Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, enabling frictionless ...

Apple's in on it. And now Qualcomm has followed suit with its own version of the technology. With the help of Bluetooth Low-Energy, the newest fad in the micro-location then is to say goodbye to ...

A surge of new services using NFC to enable in-store payments and engagements are expected later this year following Android’s introduction last year of the cloud-based HCE protocol, which does not ...

Qaulcomm's new iBeacon-like technology may be the beginning of the end of near-field communications technologies. The move away from NFC and toward beacons It's tough to implement a new technology ...