Tag: NFC-enabled smart phones

NFC technology can be used for much more than mobile commerce thanks to new app from the Android Market

Stephen Vagus
Social Media Marketing

Today, much of the news regarding NFC technology revolves around how it can be used for mobile commerce. The technology, however, can be used for much more than making payments from a smart phone. For those more interested in social networking than mobile commerce, a new app has come to the Android Market. The app is called Add Friend and it utilizes NFC technology to connect people via Facebook. The app aims to streamline social networking in the real world for those with NFC-enabled smart phones. NFC chips, such as…

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Nokia to develop a new generation of games powered by NFC technology

L. Green
Nokia Main Headquarters

Telecommunications giant Nokia has been investing heavily into NFC technology lately. The company has targeting the emerging mobile commerce industry as a prime opportunity for growth and has begun producing a number of NFC-enabled smart phones. NFC is becoming increasingly associated with its uses in mobile commerce, but Nokia knows that the technology can be used for more than just mobile payments. The company is looking to use the technology to make mobile gaming more interactive. Nokia has grown fond of the concept of interactive gaming. The growing number of…

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Barclaycard sponsors the NFC Forum in an effort to promote NFC technology and mobile payments.

L. Green
NFC Technology

Mobile commerce is quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with in the business world. Powered by NFC technology, the industry has been experiencing a great deal of growth around the world as consumers begin to become more comfortable with the idea that their smart phones can double as a debit or credit card. As interest in the budding industry grows, so too does the need to understand its intricacies. To this end, Barclaycard, a leading global payments company, has joined a team of sponsors backing the NFC Forum, a…

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Sony Ericsson joins troupe of tech giants in adopting NFC technology

Sam Lambert
Contacless Payments

The field of NFC is becoming more crowded as Sony Ericsson announces that it will be taking up the cause of near field communications. The tech behemoth will be joining Google, AT&T and Nokia in developing NFC-enabled smart phones that will be released later in the year. The NFC industry is still quite young, but these companies have been laboring to promote the technology they are sure will be the next big thing. Sony Ericsson’s plans were unveiled via the Times of India publication, in which Steve Walker, global head…

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