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Re:2012 Will Be The Year NFC Breaks Big--Just Not In The U.S. by rvenugopal on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @11:27PM (#3241773)
What is so phenomenal about what Tagstand is doing? It appears to be just client side NFC with a library like zxing

http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/

What am I missing?

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Re:2012 Will Be The Year NFC Breaks Big--Just Not In The U.S. by cjlars on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @12:21AM (#3241933)
NFC offers two big opportunities. The first is NFC as hardware, which is what Tagstand is doing. I agree that this is a fairly straightforward business.

The second, and arguably much larger, opportunity is the software component, which we haven't really seen yet. There's a whole world of programs and services that can be built around this hardware once it's in use.

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