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European consortium created to foster NFC interoperability

Tuesday, May 8, 2007 in Library

StoLPaN group includes heavy hitters tech, finance, and education

Europe is looking to get a head start on creating an NFC ecosystem, thanks to the recently announced creation of a new consortium with the unlikely acronym, StoLPaN. It stands for Store Logistics and Payment with NFC and includes a pan-European consortium of companies, universities and user groups seeking to develop an open architecture for the development, deployment and use of NFC-enabled applications in mobile handsets. It is co-funded by the European Commission and Information Society Technologies (IST) program.

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