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Indonesia looking at NFC

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Indonesia is increasingly pondering contactless payments as a result of the NFC theme set by the RFID Asia Summit 2008. As reported by PR.com Goh Say Yeow, executive vice president of sales and managing director Asia Pacific of INSIDE Contactless, presented the market trends and development of contactless payments in the region.

Going further with NFC technology, Jonathon Gould, vice president of Asia Pacific at Biotech reviewed different generations of electronic payment system with contactless payment becoming the latest trend. Chua Thian Yee, CEO of CASSIS, focused on the NFC technology used for mobile payment, reviewing the consumer landscape, the fundamentals of NFC technology and several mobile payment cases. [end] 

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