{"id":35,"date":"2011-01-25T10:05:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T15:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2011-01-25T10:05:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T15:05:26","slug":"iphone-nfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"iPhone NFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-01-25\/apple-plans-service-that-lets-iphone-users-pay-with-handsets.html\">planning on introducing NFC<\/a>, or &#8220;Near Field Communications&#8221;, in the next generation of iDevices. This means that users will be able to pay for purchases at NFC-compliant kiosks using their smart phone as an authentication token.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how Apple secures this functionality; I would hope that there is some sort of PIN or other unlocking required. Otherwise, losing a phone would be equivalent to losing a phone <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> a credit card. In fact, since NFC payment is generally a direct bank account debit rather than a credit transaction, it would be even worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is planning on introducing NFC, or &#8220;Near Field Communications&#8221;, in the next generation of iDevices. This means that users will be able to pay for purchases at NFC-compliant kiosks using their smart phone as an authentication token. It will be interesting to see how Apple secures this functionality; I would hope that there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smartphones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}