Found: Near field communication support for Google+ mobile app
July 7, 2011 by Terence LEE
If you own a NFC-enabled phone (see list of phones) with the Google+ app, you would be able to tap on NFC tags containing text and the app would launch with the text pre-typed. You can then post it as a status update.
This facet of the app was spotted by Ridzuan Ashim, a developer, and he demonstrates how it is done:
With this news, it looks like Google is giving NFC a nudge towards mainstream usage. Besides Google+, NFC technology is already being employed in the Google Wallet mobile payment service as well as Google Places, which allows consumers to rate and review businesses.
Google has also become a principal member of the NFC forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing NFC technology. The forum boasts sponsor members like MasterCard, Microsoft and Sony, and principal members like Intel, PayPal, and American Express (more on membership schemes here).
On the other hand, Google has ended on Google Places its support for QR codes, which are 2D barcodes that are readable using a mobile phone camera. NFC tags could very well be the replacement technology.
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Terence is an online media nut that is obsessed with writing and publishing for the Internet. Recently, he took up photography to expand his repertoire, and hopes to learn videography soon. He has worked in both online and print publications such as The Straits Times, Today, Mind Your Body, The Online Citizen, and Funkygrad. In 2010, he co-founded New Nation, a current affairs online magazine for young adults with a couple of like-minded folks. Terence can be found on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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