Books - Super Apps by Luis A. Gutierrez. NFC Task Launcher. First NFC Apps for Android Show Up in Market. The first NFC Android applications have appeared in Google’s Android Market. One, the U.S. -based EnableTable, is an app designed for American restaurant owners who want to offer discounts to their regular customers. The second, a Japanese app called Taglet, lets you register NFC devices with its service, which, when read, will retrieve stored data like a website address or contact information. NFC, or Near Field Communication, is a short-range, high-frequency wireless technology that allows for data exchanges between devices in close proximity to each other. Support for NFC has been added to the Android mobile operating system in its latest revision, Android 2.3, code-named Gingerbread.
And Google’s new flagship phone, the Nexus S, is the first Android device to ship with the necessary hardware to use NFC. Taglet, a Japanese NFC App As tag readers, Android phones running Gingerbread and that have the necessary hardware, can scan NFC tags and decode the information they contain. The U.S. Forget wallets. What else is NFC good for? Near-field communication (NFC) has been trashed by critics, who say it adds no value to consumers or is a technology in search of a need. But as we’ve pointed out, NFC is just a technology that can applied in a lot of different ways, apart from the digital wallet framework through which many people understand it. Increasingly, we’re seeing more and more interesting projects and applications being built that show how NFC will be deployed outside of mobile payment situations. This not only indicates how flexible the technology is but also could help propel the overall technology in adoption, as consumers become aware of NFC and learn to use it for a variety of reasons.
Right now, NFC is still below the radar for most U.S. consumers, and the slow roll out of Google Wallet or the pending launch of Isis next year are, by themselves, only going to accelerate NFC adoption by so much. Here’s a look at some of recent interesting developments: Tagstand Relaunches NFC Task Launcher App, Makes NFC Way Less Geeky. YC-backed Tagstand, a company intent on helping make NFC more of a mainstream technology, is rebooting its Android app, NFC Task Launcher with a whole new feature set and user interface.
The app was already one of the top NFC-based utilities in the Android Market Google Play store before coming under Tagstand’s control recently, when the app’s creator joined the team. The company also says it saw a big uptick in demand for NFC tags when Google released the Galaxy Nexus, and it’s now selling as many tags in a day as it did during the entire month of June, when the service first launched. Tagstand, you may remember, raised a $1.1 million funding round back in October which included many notable angels. The company says that it’s since added new investors to its round, including YC partners Harjeet Taggar, Garry Tan, and Alexis Ohanian, and Kavin Bharti Mittal of Bharti Telecom in India.
If you remember what the app looked like before, this is great update. [PR] inTouch Innovate Melangkah Maju Dengan Memanfaatkan NFC Dalam Aplikasi BlackBerry. 9 Januari 2012 – Jakarta. Kemampuan untuk merasakan sebuah teknologi baru telah mendorong inTouch Innovate Indonesia untuk menempatkan prioritas pada aplikasi penelitian dan pengembangan yang memanfaatkan Near Field Communications (NFC). Fitur ini, yang memungkinkan aplikasi untuk berinteraksi dengan beberapa tag dan aksesori pintar serta perangkat NFC lainnya, telah dimanfaatkan oleh inTouch di sejumlah aplikasi popular. Untuk mengembangkan aplikasi BlackBerry dengan kemampuan NFC, inTouch menggunakan BlackBerry Java ® Development Environment (JDE) yang memungkinkan tim ahli untuk membuat proyek yang dapat dikembangkan secara otomatis dan dikemas ke dalam aplikasi.
Mereka juga dapat mengambil keuntungan maksimum dari BlackBerry NFC API seperti NFC Reader API, NFC Emulation API, and NFC Listener API. “NFC sebagai teknologi baru, satu hal yang penting untuk dipahami adalah bahwa hal itu tidak terbatas hanya pada fungsi pembayaran saja. 7 Hot Location-Based Apps You Should Know About.
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