2011 Not the Year of Mobile NFC eCommerce. What is CSI Virtual MasterCard Up To?

This year (2011) was suppposed to be the year NFC (Near Field Communications) was rolled out in smartphones and retailers. And yet, here we are half-way through 2011 with nothing more than relatively small test rollouts and NFC embedded in Google Places signs. The NFC movement fragmented in the first half of 2011.