Apple Card holders can apply for a free Apple ... barcodes rather than wireless technologies like NFC. In 2015, Apple renamed Passbook as Apple Wallet and added support for Apple Pay, extending ...

Often the term will bring to mind the ability to pay by holding your phone over a reader, but the system can also use NFC tags embedded in credit cards, ID card, passports, and the like.

Android's Google Wallet is expanding massively with its latest partnership with Club Quarters for hotel room key support.