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M2 PRESSWIRE-October 12, 2007-Innovision Research & Technology: Celebrating 30 years in technology PR.; Developers urged to find innovative and novel uses for new generation of NFC mobile phones
- Innovision launches first UKNFC competition (C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
Cirencester, UK -- Near Field Communication (NFC) - a short- range wireless communication technology - is about to change the face of mobile handset usage and mobile applications where touch is the new click'. With the recent announcement of the four NFC Forum standard tag types, Innovision Research & Technology, developer of the NFC standard number 1 tag type format, Topaz, has launched the NFC Innovation Awards, the first UKcompetition aimed at finding the most innovative NFC ideas of the future.
The competition, aimed at UK-based teams, requires teams of up to four participants to produce an abstract proposing a new NFC application, and if shortlisted, a demonstration of the application for a Topaz tag used with an NFC-enabled mobile phone handset.
Topaz has a 96 Byte memory and as the smallest and lowest cost NFC tag is one of only three proprietary tag types mandated by the NFC Forum, the global standards body for NFC. Innovision believes that by learning how to use an NFC-enabled phone to efficiently encode these tags, developers will gain a valuable insight into the opportunities and challenges presented by NFC technology. One interesting challenge for competition entrants is devising an efficient use of a tag memory of 96 Bytes - for example, it could be used as a pointer to larger databases or specific Internet sites.
Competition entrants will each receive a free competition kit, comprising a set...