Von: "NFC Competition" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Datum: 27. Februar 2008 16:23:18 GMT+01:00
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Betreff: REMINDER: Deadline NFC- Competition
Dear interested parties,
Please remenber the submission deadline for the NFC Competition at
29th February!
See for more details: www.nfc-competition.com and download your
submission form.
We are looking forward to your contributions and a great NFC
competition!
The Organizing Committee
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Tracks
The competition is divided into two tracks: a Commercial Track for NFC
services based on a business case; and a Research Track open to
university
students and research institutions.
*Track A: COMMERCIAL The most ambitious and successful commercial
service
*Track B: RESEARCH Most innovative new service developed by
university individuals or teams
The Pre-selection Committee will evaluate each entry, and 20 finalists
will be announced on March 17, 2008. Each team of finalists will be
asked to deliver a presentation and live demonstration at the WIMA
event on April 29, 2008, after which the jury will vote to select
first-, second-, and third-place winners for each track.
Pre-selection Committee
The Pre-selection Committee includes reviewers from both, academia and
industry:
* Heikki Ailisto (VTT)
* Jean-Philippe Betoin (Inside Contactless)
* Hank Chavers (Nokia)
* Michael Elliott (Over-C)
* Neil Garner (Glue4)
* Ian Keen (Innovision)
* Helmut Krcmar (Technical University Munich)
* Christian Lührs (Stollmann)
* Florian Michahelles (ETH Zurich)
* Serge Miranda (University of Nice)
* Manfred Müller (SCM Microsystems GmbH)
* Klaus Rebensburg (Technical University Berlin)
* Kurt Schmid (NEXPERTS GmbH)
* Albrecht Schmidt (University of Duisburg-Essen)
* Spyros Tombros (BlueChip)
Sponsors
About the NFC Forum
The NFC Forum, www.nfc-forum.org, was launched as a non-profit
industry
association in 2004 by leading mobile communications, semiconductor
and
consumer electronics companies. The Forum's mission is to advance
the use of Near Field Communication technology by developing
specifications, ensuring interoperability among devices and
services, and educating the market about
NFC technology. The Forum's 145+ global member companies currently are
developing specifications for a modular NFC device architecture, and
protocols for interoperable data exchange and device-independent
service
delivery, device discovery, and device capability.
The NFC Forum's Sponsor members, which hold seats on the Board of
Directors, include leading players in key industries around the
world. The
Sponsor members are: HP, MasterCard International, Microsoft Corp.,
NEC,
Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Inc., NXP Semiconductors, Panasonic, Renesas
Technology,
Samsung, Sony Corporation, and Visa International.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and
growth of the converging Internet and communications industries.
Nokia makes a wide range of mobile devices and provides people with
experiences in music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games
and business mobility through these devices. Nokia also provides
equipment, solutions and services for communications networks.
About Over-C
Over-C is the leading Near Field Communication software company
focused on
the management of tag events, from tag scan through the back office.
Over-C's hosted solutions help companies get the right data to the
right
person at the right time. For more information on how your company
can be
Safe in the Knowledge, visit the Over-C Web site: www.over-c.com.
About SCM Microsystems, Inc.
SCM Microsystems is a leading supplier of solutions that open the
Digital
World by enabling people to conveniently access digital content and
services. The company develops, markets and sells the industry's
broadest
range of smart card reader technology for secure PC, network and
physical
access and digital media readers for transfer of digital content to
OEM
customers in the government, financial, enterprise, consumer
electronics and photographic equipment markets worldwide. Global
headquarters are in
Ismaning, Germany. For additional information, visit the SCM
Microsystems
web site at www.scmmicro.com.
About Inside Contactless
As the only fabless semiconductor company focused exclusively upon
contactless chip platforms, INSIDE Contactless is a market leader
in Near
Field Communication (NFC), contactless payments, and access control.
Innovation in contactless technology has led to more than 55
patents granted to INSIDE, including several essential NFC
technology patents. INSIDE is the market share provider of
contactless bank card technology in the world, with more than 35
million MicroPass intelligent payment platforms delivered from
launch in 2005 through 2007. MicroPass, the 2007 Sesames "Best
Hardware" award winner, powers cards issued by more than 20 global
bank card issuers. Globally, more than 25 key partners, including
major card manufacturers and handset providers, have successfully
delivered contactless products such as payment & access cards,
point of sale terminals, and NFC enabled mobile handsets which are
'powered by INSIDE'. INSIDE Contactless is headquartered in Aix-en-
Provence, France, with offices in Shanghai, Singapore, Poland, San
Francisco, and Boston. For more information, please visit
www.insidecontactless.com.
About Innovision Research & Technology plc
Innovision Research & Technology plc, is leading the next
generation of
NFC/RFID solutions. As the leading fabless developer of short-range
data
communication semiconductor and system solutions, with particular
focus on
NFC/RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and ultra low-cost
Integrated
Circuit (IC) and RF electronic design, IRT is pushing cost
performance to
enable clients to get maximum utility for minimum cost.
The company develops innovative semiconductor technologies, ICs, RF
systems (HF/UHF) and complete end product applications for mass volume
commercialisation and then licenses customers for its incorporation
into
their own products.
At the heart of the emerging Near Field Communication (NFC) market,
Innovision R&T designs and develops NFC/RFID IC solutions for the
global
mobile handset and consumer device sectors.
Products include Topaz, mandated by the NFC Forum as the NFC number
one
tag type format, Jewel for mass transit ticketing applications, and
io, the
world's smallest standards compatible Near-Field RFID reader.
Headquartered in the UK, Innovision R&T was listed in 2001 on the
Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange
(ticker
symbol: INN).
Visit: www.innovision-group.com/ for further details
About Stollman E+V GmbH
Stollmann, www.stollmann.de, based in Hamburg, Germany, is one of the
leading developers and suppliers of standard products and licensed
products
for communications technologies such as NFC, Bluetooth, xDSL, GPRS,
and
ISDN. Stollmann's team of 40 specialists develops protocol stacks,
reference designs, and modules.
Stollmann provides a NFC upper layer stack and JSR-257 API for mobile
phones, PDAs and smart phones, a NFC upper layer stack and NFC API for
embedded devices and a NFC evaluation kit, featuring an easy-to-use
interface, USB reader, and NFC tags, all complying with the most
recent NFC
Forum standards. The evaluation kit lets you test-drive
standardized near
field communication with contactless chip cards and RFID tags.
Stollmann has developed the first peer-to-peer mode stack compliant
to the
NFC Forum specification. It allows to interconnect two NFC-enabled
devices
for active data transfer. Target applications are mobile payment,
ticketing, access control, simple configuration.
About WIMA
WIMA is a Conference and Exhibition based in Monaco presenting the
European NFC Developers Summit (Grimaldi Forum, 28 - 30 April 2008)
and
hosting the Touching the Future: NFC Forum Global Competition Finals &
Awards Ceremony (April 29 2008). WIMA is the European NFC industry
event
bringing together developers, systems integrators, device
manufactures and
service providers ready to realise the potential of NFC and the
multiple
business opportunities available with the ever expanding outreach
of NFC
services into the ecosystem. Presentations and exhibits will
explore some of the top NFC application areas highlighting what the
devices can do today and will do in the future, what you need to
know about NFC technology and how to develop NFC applications. For
further information please contact:
Joanna Merchie [EMAIL PROTECTED] +377 93 10 40 57 www.wima-nfc.com.
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Learn more about the competition at www.nfc-competition.com.
Download your competition application at www.nfc-competition.com.
If interested in sponsoring the competition, contact
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gold sponsors of the competition are NFC Forum members Nokia, Over-
C and
SCM Microsystems. Silver sponsors are NFC Forum members Inside
Contactless,
Innovision Research &Technology plc, Stollman E+V GmbH and WIMA.
Sponsorship is open to both NFC Forum members and non-members.
Sponsors may not enter the competition.
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Florian Resatsch
Berlin, Germany
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Learn more about the competition at www.nfc-competition.com.
Download your competition application at www.nfc-competition.com.
If interested in sponsoring the competition, contact
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gold sponsors of the competition are NFC Forum members Nokia, Over-
C and SCM Microsystems. Silver sponsors are NFC Forum members
Inside Contactless, Innovision Research &Technology plc, Stollman E
+V GmbH and WIMA. Sponsorship is open to both NFC Forum members and
non-members. Sponsors may not enter the competition.
