Near Field Communication

By Peter Rojas

Tech heavyweights Sony, Nokia, and Philips are working on a standard for how gadgets could communicate with another using RFID tags. Near Field Communication, in theory at least, could be used to connect together two wireless handhelds for swapping music files (the RFID chips doing the identifying, you'd still have to use WiFi or Bluetooth to actually transfer stuff) or for letting cellphones double as e-wallets.

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