Three IoT lessons from the Softbank/ARM deal
Posted on 22 July 2016 by
After Japan’s SoftBank acquired ARM, we explore the implications of the deal for the IoT and our connected lives.
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What can you do with NFC?
Posted on 18 February 2013 by
Take a minute and cast your mind back to science fiction films of the 80s and 90s – Terminator or Demolition Man perhaps. People could use biometrics to gain access to computers, scan others’ minds to see what they were thinking, and so on. Based on these futuristic predictions, who would have thought, in the […]
Mobile phones as room keys – whatever next?
Posted on 24 June 2011 by
With the constant growth of contactless applications, one wonders what other areas of our everyday lives one day could be NFC-enabled.
Would you have thought of using your phone to open you hotel room or unlock and start your car?
Earlier this year we saw the first demonstrations of NFC being used as a car key, for both accessing and starting the vehicle. It may not be too long before we see the same system being adopted for commercial, or even residential, premises.