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Nexus S Enables the NFC Secure Element

Sprint watcher Sprintfeed has dug up an announcement flyer for a July 11th update for the Nexus S that includes enabling the secure features of the existing NFC capabilities on the phone. The new capabilities brings the world one step closer to the Google Wallet.

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NFC at Sundance: Pandemic 1.0

Interesting head line from Nearfieldcommunications world – “NFC will catch on ‘like wildfire’ says Sundance festival game creator.” The digital agency Vectorform created a NFC game for the Sundance attendees that used Nexus S phones and NFC tags to let users play a game based on Pandemic 1.0, a film by Lance Weiler.

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Open NFC

Open NFC for Android Gingerbread

ReadWriteWeb has a post about Open NFC from a semiconductor solutions provider named Inside Secure. Previously to utilize the NFC components of Gingerbread developers had use chips from NXP Semiconducters.

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