9to5mac.com - 11/6/2009
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So what would you do with an RFID-equipped iPhone? Use it as a credit card, perhaps? As a driving license? A passport? As a way to find your iPhone, in conjunction with GPS? Well, if a report crossing our desk this afternoon has substance, Apple’s already exploring just what such a device could ...
nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com - 11/5/2009
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nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com —
Einar Rosenberg, who runs the Near Field Communications
Group on Linkedin.com, has reported the following: Had to...
share this news. A highly reliable source has informed me that Apple has built some prototypes of the next gen iPhone with an RFID reader ...
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Apple testing RFID
appleinsider.com - 11/6/2009
phonestechnology.blogspot.com - 11/6/2009
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phonestechnology.blogspot.com —
According to Near Field Communications World, the company
Apple is working on several prototypes communicator iPhone, one...
feature of which is a built-in sensor radio frequency identification (RFID). The report of this came from some "very reliable source" in contact with Einar Rosenberg (Einar ...
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iPhone 4G can be equipped with RFID reader
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Apple Working on RFID iPhone?
EverythingiCafe —
... Take this with a healthy dose of salt, but 9to5 Mac is reporting that Apple may be working on embedding RFID readers into the iPhone. So this won’t be constantly and insecurely transmitting data, which is one of the worries in the current generation of RFID transmitter equipped cards and passports. Rather, this would allow the iPhone to gather data from its surroundings, and talk to objects that are equipped with RFID transmitters. So, imagine being able to check the balance on your credit card locally, get a message when your laundry is done, find chipped objects in the ...
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9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... Those RFID-reading iPhone stories just keep spinning around, boosted by news that Apple staff now wield iPod touch-based payment taking systems. It’s pretty clear ...
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