Near Field Communication touches down at The NFC Zone in CES 2008
03 January, 2008
category: Contactless, Financial, NFC
Experience NFC technology personally at the NFC Zone at CES 2008, January 7-10 in Las Vegas. See live demonstrations of NFC technology enabling a variety of mobile payments, including using a phone as a payment or travel card. Watch mobile proximity purchases made easily using an NFC-enabled device. Experience the ease of transmitting digital pictures over a secure Bluetooth connection. Learn how mobile phone-based coupons can be redeemed at point of sale. See a USB-NFC reader enabling card-to-PC communications, and NFC-enabled products for the car, home and office. Discover how NFC phones can collect and display information from smart posters, and Bluetooth devices can connect simply by waving a mobile phone over an NFC reader/writer.
Near Field Communication Touches Down At The NFC Zone at CES 2008
NFC Forum Member Companies Innovision, Inside Contactless, Nokia, NXP, Parrot, SCM Microsystems, Toppan Forms and Visa to Demonstrate NFC Applications
What:
NFC technology is quickly gaining momentum. Jupiter Research estimates that worldwide payments by mobile phone may reach $22 billion USD by 2011. Today, consumers are using NFC technology on their mobile phones to make contactless payments in commercial roll outs in Germany and Austria and in trials in London, Singapore, the Netherlands, Finland, and New York, among others.
Now it’s your turn to experience NFC technology personally at the NFC Zone at CES 2008. See live demonstrations of NFC technology enabling a variety of mobile payments, including using a phone as a payment or travel card. Watch mobile proximity purchases made easily using an NFC-enabled device. Experience the ease of transmitting digital pictures over a secure Bluetooth connection. Learn how mobile phone-based coupons can be redeemed at point of sale. See a USB-NFC reader enabling card-to-PC communications, and NFC-enabled products for the car, home and office. Discover how NFC phones can collect and display information from smart posters, and Bluetooth devices can connect simply by waving a mobile phone over an NFC reader/writer.
Who:
Meet representatives of the NFC Forum and NFC Zone exhibitors Innovision, Inside Contactless, Nokia, NXP, Parrot, SCM Microsystems, Toppan Forms and Visa.
When:
January 7 – 10, 2008
Where:
NFC Zone, Booth 73825
International CES 2008
Sands Expo and Convention Center
20l Sands Ave.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Media Contact:
Ruth Cassidy
Virtual, Inc.
+1.781.876.6239
rcassidy@virtualmgmt.com
About the NFC Forum
The NFC Forum, http://www.nfc-forum.org, was launched as a non-profit industry association in 2004 by leading mobile communications, semiconductor and consumer electronics companies. The Forums mission is to advance the use of Near Field Communication technology by developing specifications, ensuring interoperability among devices and services, and educating the market about NFC technology. The Forum’s 145+ global member companies currently are developing specifications for a modular NFC device architecture, and protocols for interoperable data exchange and device-independent service delivery, device discovery, and device capability.
The NFC Forum’s Sponsor members, which hold seats on the Board of Directors, include leading players in key industries around the world. The Sponsor members are: HP, MasterCard International, Microsoft Corp., NEC, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Inc., NXP Semiconductors, Panasonic, Renesas Technology, Samsung, Sony Corporation, and Visa International.