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Stollmann lauches NFC digital money tray

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Germany’s Stollmann announced that it has integrated its NFC protocol stack into Tipro Deutschland’s NFC Money Tray.

The integrated NFC Money Tray enables point of sale mobile payment and supports ticketing system applications as well as applications for access control and Web-based control systems.

Stollmann revealed NFC Money Tray last week at the Embedded World 2010 Conference held in Nuremberg, Germany. [end] 

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