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First Spotlight event spotlights transportation and city life NFC apps

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The NFC Forum is holding its first Spotlight conference for an afternoon of discussions and demonstrations of NFC transport and city life applications in LivingXXL restaurant in Frankfurt’s Eurotower. The program features presentations by NFC Forum Vice Chairman Gerhard Romen of Nokia, Dr. Wolf Heine of T-Systems and other representatives of organizations that have deployed NFC projects around the world.

The NFC Forum Spotlight: Transport and City Life conference gives organizations that are involved in NFC projects an opportunity to showcase solutions, share deployment experiences and identify best practices. More than 60 NFC transport and city life projects are now underway worldwide, enabling consumers to purchase public transport tickets, pay for parking, obtain municipal and tourist information, buy products and perform other transactions using their NFC-enabled mobile phones. [end] 

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