RFID in Japan

The Mobile RFID Forum was established in Korea last week.

Korean mobile-phone carriers and electronics makers will combine efforts to develop radio-frequency identification technologies for mobile phones, enabling people to receive real-time information on consumer products or services through microchips embedded in their handsets.

The Forum envisions a scenario where "a mobile phone embedded with a RFID microchip could enable the user to make cash-less payment when purchasing an on-shelf product by simply touching the RFID tag on the item."

This approach sounds slightly different from other ongoing efforts including NTT DoCoMo's i-Mode FeliCa (aka "wallet phones") .

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Kim Tong-hyung (2005) Forum to develop RFID technologies. The Korea Herald, February 7, 2005. <http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/02/07/200502070016.asp> (February 7, 2005)

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