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| INSIDE Contactless Cooperates with Infineon on NFC INSIDE Contactless has announced its cooperation with Infineon Technologies on the development of a joint reference architecture for next generation, interoperable NFC solutions. The cooperation combines the strengths and strategies of both companies to reinforce the current adoption of contactless payment and communications technologies worldwide and ensures smooth interoperability between the transceiver of INSIDE Contactless and the security microcontrollers of Infineon especially for NFC applications. The planned reference architecture will notably combine INSIDE's NFC capacities with Infineon's secured connectivity technology, allowing banking services to converge on the handset. This will provide new opportunities for handset manufacturers, telecom operators, banks and others media, travel and entertainment industry to develop new mass market services. With major industry back up in their respective fields of application, INSIDE Contactless and Infineon have decided to join forces in order to further extend the integration of their technologies, and create a favorable ground for the deployment of a new industrial ecosystem, based on new banking and telecommunications services. This way, INSIDE's product offering will become fully interoperable with the Mifare protocol, opening a wide spectrum of services, especially in the transport industry. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |