O2 is expanding its near-field communications team as it prepares to launch mobile payments services later this year. On Monday, a spokesperson for the company said mobile payments will "become a ...

Telefónica O2 UK Ltd. is adding its name to a growing list of wireless carriers planning to launch Near Field Communication initiatives to enable consumers to use their smartphones to initiate payment ...

Cellular service provider O2 UK is working with British credit card issuer Barclaycard, as well as Nokia, Visa Europe and other partners, in a project to test the O2 Wallet, an application in which ...

Banks, credit card issuers, telecommunications providers and cellular-phone manufacturers all are battling to carve out a role in the nascent mobile-payments market. In May, Google unveiled plans to ...

You've probably seen the acronym NFC but might not be clear about what it is and why there's been so much hullabaloo about it. NFC stands for near field ...