On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, Mick Fortune wrote:
> Apple's decision to include Near Field Communication (NFC) capabilities
> in their latest iPhone - although currently only for e-payments - is
> likely to increase significantly both the opportunity and the risk
> presented to libraries using RFID to manage their stock.
Apple are playing catch up - there's a lot more Android devices out there
already with NFC. We played with reading/writing our library RFID tags a
few years ago now using just a stock NFC enabled Android device and one of
the many free apps available in the Play Store. So the cat has been out
of the bag for quite some time. And lets face it - you're more likely to
find tech savvy Android users wanting to mess with your RFID tags than
most of the iPhone users.
J.
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