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Broadcom 40NM NFC CMOS chip: for payments and beyond
September 26, 2011 
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Broadcom is gearing up for the P&T/Expo Comm in China this week with the announcement of its new 40NM NFC chip. Broadcom will be demoing the new chip set at the conference and has high hopes that it will provide a solid product to capture the rapidly growing demand for mobile communications options.
Read more Facebook f8 and NFC
September 22, 2011 0 Comments
GigaOm is reporting that NFC integration will be announced at F8 today. Watching now… False Alarm.
Read more Google Wallet and the future of money
September 20, 2011 0 Comments
Its been a big couple of weeks for the future of money game. Both Paypal and Mastercard announced their new initiatives and now Google rolls out the Wallet. Clearly 2011 is not the year of the mobile wallet!
Read more FCC greenlights public White Space test
September 15, 2011 0 Comments
Yesterday the FCC gave the go ahead for the first public test of the White Space spectrum. Annoying referred to now as the Super Wifi, the test will be conducted by Spectrum Bridge, one of the nine plus one White Space database administrators.
Read more Moving from connected devices to connected systems
September 13, 2011 0 Comments
GigaOmPro looks beyond the smartphone in the growing world of connected devices. From the decidedly geeky topic of the Internet of Things to the more pedestrian e-book readers, everything is going to be connected at some point. As the connections get more sophisticated the ramifications for both economies and individual lifestyles increase dramatically.
Read more lightRadio: the future of mobile base stations
September 13, 2011 0 Comments
LightReading reports that the all in one micro base station from Alcatel-Lucent called lightRadio could be available as soon as the first quarter of 2012. The new device will dramatically reduce the onsite need for infrastructure and power.
Read more Ford, Bug Labs & OpenXC
September 12, 2011 2 Comments
At Techcrunch today, aside from the metadrama, Ford announced a partnership with Bug Labs to create an open source platform called OpenXC for in-car applications innovation. The two companies will work together to provide engineers, geeks and forward thinking companies a tool kit to use for hardware and software applications for the automobile.
Read more Ninja Fruit encorporates NFC
September 12, 2011 0 Comments
Following the launch of Angry Birds with Nokia of a NFC-based version with special unlockable content, Ninja Fruit announcements its version of an NFC enabled game. This continue the trend of looking beyond pure mobile transactions as the primary use of NFC technology.
Read more White Space: the thrill is gone
September 7, 2011 0 Comments
Stacey Higginbotham reported recently on the progress being made in the UK on getting the White Space up and running for use by mobile operators looking to spread out the impact of so many devices.
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