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Don’t miss the NFC express…

04/20/201104/19/2011 L. Green

Near Field Communication (NFC) services may be closer than anyone realizes. Recent research studies are showing that in three short years there will be about 300 million NFC enabled mobile devices, or one out of every five Smartphone’s. Devices and objects that contain NFC capabilities or RFID chips can communicate with each other by sending radio waves when the two get into a close distance of each other. The technology allows a simultaneous flow of data coming in and going out at the same time. Several companies have been trying…

NFC technology is working in France – A look at what is going right!

04/19/2011 Jennifer Goula

Here in the United States the race is on to get a contactless mobile payment system incorporated into the business world. Several are looking at Near-Field Communication (NFC) as the way to go, since many Smartphone’s all ready have the chip or will have the RFID chip this year. Maybe we should look at the French system. France has been doing this since 2010. Orange is the eighth largest telecom operator in the world and had more than 189 million customers in late 2009. France Telecom is using Orange for…

Exploring the differences and similarities of the two

04/08/201104/20/2011 Jennifer Goula

QR codes have started springing to life here in the U.S. as businesses and entrepreneurs alike have discovered their simple wonder as a marketing tool. Meanwhile, mobile technology developers have all ready came out with another genius tool; the Near Field Communication (NFC) tags. QR codes and NFC devices are similar, yet very different. Both, if used correctly, can help propel your business presence from the physical to the virtual world. QR codes are a small square box that looks similar to a 2D, pixilated barcode. They can be embedded…