Plastic Is Dead, Barclaycard Managing Director Admits

Anthony Jenkins Barclaycards Managing Director confidently predicted that plastic had no future and that the future of payments was in Near field Communications.

That's a bold statement from Europes biggest Visa issuer and acquirer. Especiually when major handset providers were only last year saying there was no demand for NFC (Sony Ericsson).

Barclaycards pilot of NFC first with O2 and then the roll out with Orange are clearly expected to make waves.

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Apple to build NFC into the next generation iPhone’s touchscreen

A patent application for a 'Touch Screen RFID Tag Reader', filed by Apple in December 2007, has been published on the US Patent & Trademark Office website.

The question of whether Apple has plans to build NFC into a future iPhone looks to have been answered this week with the publication on the US Patent & Trademark Office website of a patent application for what is described as a 'touch screen RFID tag reader'.

Filed in December 2007, the patent application describes a method of building RFID circuitry into a touch sensor panel. According to the abstract..........

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