Unfortunately, I could not find Microsoft’s nice video demonstrating how NFC handset capabilities can enhance grocery store operations and customer experience. That’s not surprising, as MSFT have closed the Beta of their own video community site and certainly wouldn’t be posting it to YouTube. Here’s a slightly less slick grocery illustration, complete with cheesy promotional music
If it’s good clean grocery store entertainment you’re looking for, absent any wireless wizardry, try this out
Finally, an advertisement for VISA’s first gen NFC mobile platform:
It’s important to point out that many of the capabilities illustrated by the NFC videos can be accomplished with existing cameraphones via 2D barcode scanning. For a timely overiew of this technology, check out this article in the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/business/01code.html?hp=&pagewanted=all
Posted by mobilemeandering
Once illiterate, Brad Grau eventually mastered QWERTY and spellcheck although XML continues to elude him. He works in the wireless industry in a nondescript midwestern city. He is a keen observer of wireless progress and enjoys innovating daily and talking about himself in the third person.