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Thursday 6 October 2011

JCM Global and Techfirm demo pay-by-mobile phone technology at G2E

Technology development leaders JCM Global and Techfirm have been growing their strategic development project, which has now led to an opportunity for the two firms to provide a dynamic demonstration of the future potential of NFC (Near Field Communication) in the casino gaming industry
Techfirm was instrumental in launching the “mobile wallet” technology in Japan seven years ago, and recently Techfirm and JCM conducted preliminary research on implementing this innovative technology in the casino gaming industry.
Posted by SMESEO at 21:49

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  1. Goomy6 October 2011 at 23:04

    NFC as stated in the original article on Yogonet is already used widely in Japan. We had some trials in london underground with O2 phones acting as Oyster card etc. Few years back TCSJH experimented and worked with RFID what in the end dint work out. In regard to the NFC use currently in certain countries around the globe :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication . JCM and Techfirm obtained IP but it will be IP ONLY for their receiver and application for the certain handset that support NFC and here's the problem not many handsets supports it. Android announced that there will be increase in 2012 in the demand but at the moment non of the market research results back it up (example: even contacless visa payment). Idea is good but it will take at least 2 years to have not only idea but hardware that widely supports this. On other hand for some reason Yogonet glorify unknown on the market comapny Techfirm and state that this company was instrumental in launching mobile wallet in Japan 7 years ago. Here are facts : first patent for RFID been filled in 1983 and granted to Charles Walton.
    Co-invented by NXP Semiconductors and Sony in 2002, NFC technology is being added to a growing number of mobile handsets to enable mobile payments, as well as many other applications.2004 Nokia, Philips and Sony established the Near Field Communication (NFC) Forum. JCM and Techfirm are NOT members of the NFC forum (http://www.nfc-forum.org/member_companies/) so statement that Techfirm had any input in the rollout of the NFC is basically not right. In my opinion with contacless visa cards there is nothing to implement... prepay cards with same chip can be used readers are widely avaliable no need for handheld that supportd NFC so no hardware limits. Pursuing the way to use mobile wallet will end up in the same bin where RFID lies...
    But this is just my honest opinion. (dates and sources are based on the wikipedia articles and web articles about NFC)

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