The time to exploit the full capabilities of Near Field Communication may be nearing. Recently, INSIDE Contactless, a provider of advanced open-standard contactless chip technologies entered into a partnership with CONNECTHINGS to give new dimensions to the Wave-Me NFC technology.
Wave-Me initiative is a collection of application software, NFC tags and services for handset manufacturers and wireless operators that seeks to simplify and improve the way consumers interact with their mobile phones. NFC’s capabilities to provide consumers with useful out-of-the-box NFC functionality is enhanced by INSIDE’s Wave-Me Java applet, Wave-Me Handset Pack and Over-the-Wave side loading technology.
Under the agreement, the companies will jointly develop, promote and commercialize the Wave-Me NFC services platform. Wave-Me NFC services platform can be used by service providers to give subscribers easy access to a broad range of consumer services and applications through their mobile phones. The handset, Wave-Me products, NFC tags and other patented technology NFC technology know-how, NFC hardware, loadable application-level software for the handset from INSIDE Contactless (News - Alert).
“When INSIDE announced it’s Wave-Me technologies in February of this year, we introduced our vision of a service-rich future for NFC, and the partnership we are announcing today is an important step in realizing that vision,” said Loic Hamon, vice president marketing NFC of INSIDE Contactless, in a statement. “Together with CONNECTHINGS, we are developing the key infrastructure elements that will give operators and service providers a powerful NFC service delivery platform.”
With a simple gesture, Wave-Me-enabled handsets will allow people to access relevant, profile-based services. It eliminates awkward, time-consuming, multi-keystroke chores by stimulating a complex series of keystrokes. Wave-Me tags could also contain relevant phone numbers or complex URLs to send SMS messages or send and retrieve information from Web sites.
The company recently
announced an agreement with
Cryptography Research regarding the use of CRI's patents covering countermeasures to Differential Power Analysis and related attacks for INSIDE's MicroPass; and other secure semiconductor products. Under the agreement, INSIDE may use CRI's patents as part of the security strategy for its contactless semiconductor products.
Raju Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Raju’s articles, please visit his columnist page.
Edited by Amy Tierney
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