Near Field Communication On The Verge Of Realizing Its Potential (Part 6)

By guest author Nalini Kumar Muppala NFC: Outlook For a new technology to gain a foothold, it needs to be mature and enable scenarios that improve the user’s work flow, lifestyle, or both. Consistency, ease of use and reliability are essential for a new technology to take off. Winning trust is essential when money is

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Near Field Communication On The Verge Of Realizing Its Potential (Part 4)

By guest author Nalini Kumar Muppala NFC: We Need Innovative Use Cases People need an incentive to embrace a new technology. By far, the biggest hurdle to NFC adoption is the absence of a compelling service. NFC should be used to make interacting with technology intuitive and natural.

Near Field Communication On The Verge Of Realizing Its Potential (Part 3)

By guest author Nalini Kumar Muppala NFC: Hardware Vendor Strategies The Nokia Factor In spite of the recent turmoil in handset vendor market, Nokia is still the dominant player. After the company announced its intention to add NFC to all its smartphones in 2011, other players have had to ramp up their NFC plans even

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Near Field Communication On The Verge Of Realizing Its Potential (Part 2)

By guest author Nalini Kumar Muppala NFC Turf War There are two parts to NFC. The mobile aspect of NFC communication (antenna, modulation-demodulation etc.) are handled by the NFC chipset, just as in any other connectivity technology. Security element (SE) manages the security aspects. The architecture of a mobile phone allows different implementations of SE:

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