Get Ready For Near Field Communication

While the major U.S. mobile providers are battling over who has the fastest data network, Google appears to be aligning the stars for Near Field Communication (NFC). At the Web 2.0 Summit last month Google CEO Eric Schmidt demonstrated the near field communication capability of the forthcoming Samsung Nexus S. Google is promoting NFC as a means for making payments with mobile phones.

The idea is that you will be able to authorize payments at cash registers using your mobile phone, which uses NFC to communicate with the cash register, or a device connected to it.

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