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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Nokia starts NFC venture
It's great Nokia is also moving into the NFC field via a new venture called Venyon, as it's so far mostly been an Asian phenomenon.
Of course, without NFC readers connected to POS terminals etc the applicability is arguable, but someone has to start, and adding NFC support to a mobile phone will cost very little. The opposite has also been tried in Korea and Japan, where the phone is the reader.
A few years ago Bluetooth was considered a possible means to perform payment and authentication. I haven't seen that outside of labs, possibly in part because NFC and Bluetooth have very different coverage (typically 10 centimeters vs 10 meters). Hence NFC is more "private" than Bluetooth. The advantage of Bluetooth is that you could just pass through e.g. a hall-way and be identified via Bluetooth, without having to step up to a special reader.
Of course, without NFC readers connected to POS terminals etc the applicability is arguable, but someone has to start, and adding NFC support to a mobile phone will cost very little. The opposite has also been tried in Korea and Japan, where the phone is the reader.
A few years ago Bluetooth was considered a possible means to perform payment and authentication. I haven't seen that outside of labs, possibly in part because NFC and Bluetooth have very different coverage (typically 10 centimeters vs 10 meters). Hence NFC is more "private" than Bluetooth. The advantage of Bluetooth is that you could just pass through e.g. a hall-way and be identified via Bluetooth, without having to step up to a special reader.
