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NFC is already a success in London with the Oyster card, now the city wants to expand the use of this technology by embedding it into mobile phones. Initial trials of the technology will happen thanks to Barclaycard in partnership with Nokia who is said to be providing several hundred handsets.
Richard Humbach, manager of mobile payment systems at Nokia, thinks that payments via a mobile phone will be mainstream by early next decade.
[Via: Textually and The Observer]
Richard recently gave a presentation (PDF) and was interviewed in a podcast (MP3) at the Nokia “The Way we live next” conference about NFC technology.
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
