October 30, 2013, NFC and Proximity Solutions, WIMA, San Francisco—Clint McClellan from Qualcomm and the Continua Organization brought on a panel of providers. The panelists were George Karidis from Hotech in Greece, Suke Jawanda from the Bluetooth SIG, Koichi Tagawa from Sony, and Horst Merkle from Roche Diagnostics. Karidis opened with comments about integrating NFC…
October 30, 2013, NFC and Proximity Solutions, WIMA, South San Francisco, CA—Clint McClellan from Qualcomm and the Continua Organization described the group’s efforts in developing guidelines for health and wellness devices. The guidelines span the range form semiconductors to devices and include other aspects such as records. The organization’s intent is to establish a set…
November 29, 2012, WIMA NFC Conference, Millbrae, CA—a panel of ecosystem partners looked at the issues facing NFC as a consumer technology. Hans Reisgies from Sequent moderated the panel. Panel members were; Doug Kilgour from ISIS, Jeff Fonseca from NXP Semiconductor, Frank Maduri from RIM, Kaushik Seturaman from Microsoft, Ramesh Sharma from Inside Secure, and…
November 28, 2012, WIMA NFC Conference, Millbrae, CA—Marc Greenbaum from Verizon Wireless described the changing ecosystem and marketplaces for NFC functions. These applications are growing very fast and will provide exciting new capabilities that are evolving and changing roles of many institutions. The mobile industry is moving into the third age of mobility. The industry…
November 28, 2012, WIMA NFC Conference, Millbrae, CA—Koichi Tagawa from the NFC Forum and Sony asked now that we are on the verge of shipping 100M NFC devices, what do we owe the consumers? Over the past 10 years Sony, one of the founders of the NFC Forum, has been slowly making the transition from…
November 28, 2012, WIMA NFC Conference, Millbrae, CA—Corey Wilson from Smartrac presented a case for changing the focus of NFC from financial to non-financial areas. The capabilities from the technology to enhance communications will become the driver for greater consumer adoption. NFC is supposed to be fun. The startup will not be in transactions, but…
November 28, 2012, WIMA NFC Conference, Millbrae, CA—Jeff Miles from NXP talked about NFC creating a new dimension in the digital reality. NFC is becoming a trusted, smart, and secure platform for many consumer contacts. NFC has been in development for the past ten years. We are now at the stage in it’s evolution where…