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Isobar Create London offers prize to NFC app developers

Rating: Google’s lead NFC engineer is speaking

Claiming to be the UK’s first NFC hackathon – ‘Isobar Create London’ – together with O2,will award one winning team a £10,000 kickstarter fund courtesy of Proxama, a developer of near field communication (NFC) proximity marketing technology. The digital communications agency, Isobar, has teamed up with O2 to launch this UK event which builds on the success of previous Isobar create events held in Boston and San Francisco. Isobar Create London is to be held over a 36-hour period from 8am on Saturday March 24th to 8pm on Sunday March 25th 2012. Continue reading

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Nokia ties up with Proxama over NFC

Much as we predicted at MWC 2011 here, Nokia is getting very heavily into NFC via its C7 handset. Now NFC specialist, Proxama, has announced that it will be collaborating with Nokia to develop NFC applications starting with the Nokia C7. The announcement fell short of saying that Proxama’s TagCenter application will ship pre-installed in the C7 but that’s the implication. Continue reading

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