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Sony’s PlayStation 4 has an x86 processor and other new hardware to provide better gaming and streaming services

Seven years after the release of the PlayStation 3, Sony has disclosed details about its new PlayStation 4 gaming console, which it said will be out by the end of this year.

Sony introduced its latest console at an event in New York City on Wednesday evening. The PS4 will focus on “multidimensional” gaming and has superior hardware to improve the player experience, said Andrew House, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment.
The new console will be out in time for the holiday shopping season, Sony said. It did not announce any pricing.

The goal is to put the PS4 at the center of the living room by offering the latest in console design, connected gaming and services, House said.

The PS4 runs on an eight-core x86 CPU and an improved graphics processor, delivering a combined 2 teraflops of performance. The console includes 8GB of memory and a local hard drive. Sony also introduced a new DualShock 4 gaming controller with a range of tracking and connectivity features to improve gaming quality on PS4.

The PS4 now effectively carries the system architecture of gaming desktop PCs, which are largely based on x86 chips. The x86 CPU is a big change from IBM’s Cell processor used in the PS3. That should close the gap between PCs and gaming consoles, which for a long time have been incompatible as Playstation games could not be run on PCs. Sony did not announce the chip supplier for the PS4, but it is rumored to be Advanced Micro Devices.

The PS4 console succeeds the PlayStation 3, which started shipping in 2006. Sony introduced a new PS3 model with a slimmer design and new hardware in 2009.

Sony’s other flagship console, the handheld PlayStation Vita, has struggled since its worldwide launch last year. Earlier this month, the company slashed its sales target for portable games by 30 percent, to 7 million, and has announced it will soon cut the price of the device by a third in Japan.

The PS4 will also carry a specialized processor that speeds up the delivery of online games. It will also have a new social networking interface and be able to interact with tablets and smartphones. A remote play feature allows games to be transferred to the PlayStation Vita console, and Sony said it wants to make every PS4 game compatible with Vita in the future.
Games that will be available for the device include a new “Final Fantasy” from Square Enix and “Watch Dogs” from Ubisoft. Blizzard Entertainment, known for PC games, said it will make a version of “Diablo” for the PS4 and the PS3. Games from other big makers are also expected.

In the PlayStation Network (PSN), users will be able to try games before they download them. Facebook and Ustream are also being integrated into the network, which Sony executives said will make PSN the most social gaming network available. Gameplay can be broadcast through Ustream, and a broadcast button on the controller will allow users to interact with PSN friends, who can assist or even take over gaming.

Sony will deliver movies and music through its Sony Entertainment Network, and is working with online streaming services like Netflix and Amazon to stream movies and other content to the PS4.

The PlayStation 4 is a rare Sony gadget that still generates the kind of buzz that made the company famous. CEO Kazuo Hirai, who previously oversaw Sony’s game division, has promised more hit products and said he personally selects and oversees promising projects.

In July of last year, Sony said it had agreed to acquire Gaikai for about US$380 million. The company said at the time it would use the purchase to deliver a “world-class cloud-streaming service” for its games and other content.

The company has made Sony Entertainment Network a core part of its future. Home gaming consoles increasingly share duties with set-top boxes — Nintendo’s Wii U, launched last year, can be used as a universal television remote and has a free app for browsing programs.

The PlayStation 3, which caused deep losses for the company after its launch in 2006, has recovered to become a hit product. Each console was initially sold at a loss to consumers, but they are now profitable. The PS3 contains custom components including the Cell processor, which Sony spent hundreds of millions of dollars developing along with IBM and Toshiba.

Sony’s main rival in consoles, Microsoft, is rumored to be gearing up for the launch of its own next-generation console, the successor to its Xbox 360. Nintendo released its lower-spec Wii U last year. All three are increasingly competing with games on PCs and tablets, as well as new devices from game companies like Steam.

Sony is in the midst of a restructuring after booking a record annual price last fiscal year. The company has stuck to its target for booking a small profit this year, selling off assets including its U.S. headquarters in New York City.

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The latest Titan graphics processor will provide smoother graphics rendering and support higher display resolutions than its predecessors

Nvidia on Tuesday announced the GeForce GTX Titan, a GPU designed to handle the most demanding games by harnessing the processing power of 2,668 graphics cores.

The GPU, which the company claims is the world’s fastest graphics processor, will provide smoother graphics rendering and support higher display resolutions, compared with its predecessors, according to the company.

The GPU has 75 percent more processors than the GeForce GTX 680 GPU, which was the company’s fastest graphics processor.

The GPU delivers 4.5 teraflops of single-precision and 1.3 teraflops of double-precision performance. Titan is about 35 percent faster than its predecessor and has 7 billion transistors, an Nvidia spokesman said.

The higher core count will enable the GPU to crunch calculations in a more power-efficient manner. Instead of cranking up clock frequency, chip makers are adding more cores to speed up a processor.

Nvidia’s Titan graphics chip can handle the most demanding games available today, Nvidia said, so it should be able to handle Crysis, a compute-intensive game that is often used as a benchmark for the power of GPUs. The highly anticipated Crysis 3 is being released later this year.

The chip fits into PCs the size of gaming consoles, Nvidia said in a statement. Three graphics cards can be linked and used together in a single system via SLI (scalable link interface), adding even more graphics power to a system.

The GPU is based on the Kepler architecture, which is also being used in graphics processors that power the Titan supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is ranked as the world’s fastest supercomputer in the Top500 list.

The GPU will start at US$999, and will be available in systems and through retailers. The product will be available worldwide.

PC makers like CyberPower and Falcon Northwest have already announced systems with GTX Titan. CyberPower is touting its Fang III gaming PC as a “gaming supercomputer,” and the system starts at $1,699. Falcon Northwest hasn’t finalized the pricing of its system yet.

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Dell’s profit and revenue both declined amid a collapse in PC sales.

Dell has reported another quarter of declining revenue and profit as the company’s CEO continues his battle to take the PC maker private.

It was the fifth consecutive quarter in which Dell’s profits shrank, and the fourth in which it reported declining revenue. The company has been hit by a downturn in the PC market.

Revenue for its fourth fiscal quarter, ended Feb. 1, declined 11 percent to US$14.3 billion, Dell said. Net income was $530 million, down 31 percent from a year earlier, while earnings were $0.30 a share, down 30 percent.

Revenue from desktop and laptop PCs, which account for about half Dell’s business, declined 20 percent in the quarter. Sales from storage and services also fell from the year earlier. The only business unit to see growth was Dell’s server and networking business, where sales were up 18 percent, Dell said.

Dell has been trying to reduce its dependence on PCs and refashion itself as a complete “solutions” company, one that sells higher-margin software and services as well as PCs and servers. But the transformation has been taking longer than investors would like.

Earlier this month, Michael Dell announced a plan to team up with Silver Lake and take his company private in a $24.4. billion deal. The move could allow the company founder to focus on longer-term investments, away from the constant scrutiny of Wall Street.

However, the plan has run into opposition from big shareholders, who think the $13.65 per share that the buyout group is offering doesn’t reflect the value of the company. One big investor, Donald Yacktman of Yacktman Asset Management, has said the chances of the deal going through at its current valuation are “close to zero.”
Michael Dell was absent from the company’s earnings call Tuesday, and a Dell spokesman said the other executives on the call, who included CFO Brian Gladden, would not be taking any questions about Dell going private.
The quarterly profit figures reported above include one-time charges and other items. Excluding those items, Dell reported a profit of $0.40 per share for the quarter, a penny ahead of the consensus analyst forecast, according to a poll by Thomson Reuters.
There were a few bright points. Sales of network gear were up 42 percent, including a doubling of Dell’s Force10 business, and sales of cloud security services also increased, Gladden said. The 5 percent increase in server sales was helped by strong growth in “hyperscale” servers, the machines Dell sells to large online service providers.

Dell gained $250 million during the quarter from what it obliquely referred to as “vendor settlements.” A spokesman declined to elaborate on the nature of those settlements. Several big computer-display manufacturers have been fined recently for price fixing, and it’s possible Dell benefited from payments related to those cases.

Dell used some of the settlement money to essentially subsidize PC prices for some of its bigger customers, with the hope that those “investments,” as Gladden called them, would help it retain those customers and lead to sales of more profitable gear in the future.

There is intense price pressure in the PC market, and Dell has said it will try to resist selling very low-cost PCs in order to keep its profitability up. That hurt it in the consumer market, where the growth is currently in “value” PCs and in tablets – another market where Dell is not strong. As a result, revenue in its consumer PC business was down 24 percent.

Dell is still holding out for a big corporate PC refresh cycle in which businesses will complete their upgrades to Windows 7. Dell estimates that some 40 percent of corporate PCs are still running Windows XP or Windows Vista, Gladden said.

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Dumps multi-license packages, all to make Office 365’s subscription pricing more attractive

Microsoft has quietly raised prices of Office for the Mac as much as 17% and stopped selling multi-license packages of the application suite.

The move puts Office for Mac 2011 on the same pricing schedule as the new Office 2013 for Windows. The price increases and the disappearance of the multi-license bundles also makes Microsoft’s Office 365, a software-by-subscription deal the company has aggressively pushed, more competitive with traditional “perpetual” licenses.

It’s not clear when Microsoft raised prices. The oldest search engine cache Computerworld found with the new prices was Feb. 2, so the company boosted them before then, likely on Jan. 29, the day it launched Office 2013 and Office 365 Home Premium. Microsoft did not mention the changes to Office for Mac in its press releases that day, or otherwise publicize the move on its Mac-specific website.

The single-license Office for Mac Home & Student now costs $140, a 17% increase from the previous price of $120. Office for Mac Home & Business, an edition that adds the Outlook email client to Home & Student’s Excel, PowerPoint and Word, runs $220, or 10% higher than the older $200 price.

The new prices are identical to those of Office 2013 for Windows, as are the percentage increases.

Microsoft has also disposed of the multi-license editions it once sold: A three-license package of Home & Student that cost $150, and a two-license bundle of Home & Business priced at $250. To buy three licenses of Home & Student would now cost a customer $420, a 180% increase, while two licenses of Home & Business would run $440, or 76% more than the missing multi-license bundle.

The price increases and the killing of the multi-license packs were clearly intended to steer consumers and small businesses to a pair of Office 365 subscription plans.

Office 365 Home Premium, which costs $100 annually or $10 per month, provides a single household license that lets subscribers install Office for Mac Home & Business — the one that includes Outlook — on up to five Macs; install Office 2013 on up to five Windows machines; or install any combination of Office on five PCs and Macs. Home Premium launched Jan. 29.

Office 365 Small Business Premium, which will run $150 per user per year, allows up to five installations of Office for Mac Home & Business and/or Office 2013 on devices owned by one employer. To equip a three-person firm with Office using the subscription method will thus cost the business $450 per year. Small Business Premium is set to debut Feb. 27.

If Microsoft had not raised the prices of Office for Mac and eliminated the multi-license offerings, number-crunching customers would have realized that the subscription plan was no bargain in many scenarios.

But the higher prices of the perpetual licenses — the traditional buy-once-use-forever form of Office for Mac — make Office 365 the better deal when deploying four or five of the allowed copies.

Microsoft faced the same pricing dilemma with Office 2010 on Windows, and raised prices of Office 2013 licenses to make them less appetizing when compared to the Office 365 “rent-not-own” plan.

Buyers can still find Office for Mac 2011 at the older, lower prices, however. Although Microsoft has boosted prices on its online store — as has Apple’s e-store, which also sells the suite — other retailers have not joined them. Yet.

As of late Sunday, for example, Amazon.com listed Office for Mac 2011 for as little as $116 in a one-license download format, and for an even-lower $109 in the three-license “family pack” edition. Amazon.com’s price for a single license of Office for Mac Home & Business was $176.

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Parody site imitates appearance of Pirate Bay site while providing links to two directories of legal download sites

The Pirate Bay reported an anti-piracy organization to Finnish police on Monday for allegedly breaching its copyright.

The Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Center (CIAPC) recently launched a website that imitates the appearance of The Pirate Bay, replacing the pirate ship logo with one featuring a sinking ship, and substituting the usual torrent search links with links to two directories of legal download services.

Although The Pirate Bay explicitly gives permission for organizations to use the site’s content for “obvious well meaning usage, i.e. distributing works of cultural benefit for the end user,” it said it will proceed with a lawsuit against CIAPC.

“CIAPC have copied files from which The Pirate Bay is built, to produce a fraudulent parody site,” The Pirate Bay said, adding that in many countries this could constitute fair use for the purposes of parody — but not under Finnish law.

“While The Pirate Bay may have a positive view on copying, it will not stand by and watch copyright enforcing organizations disrespect copyright,” says a Pirate Bay statement.

The Pirate Bay was launched in 2003 and is run by dozens of individuals around the world. After a Swedish court ruling in 2009 gave jail terms for the founders of the site, the current organizers prefer to remain anonymous.

CIAPC aims to “prevent the production, distribution and import of unauthorized copies and recordings and put a stop to other acts that infringe copyright legislation”. And managing director Antti Kotilainen told local media that a legal challenge would be a good thing if it forced The Pirate Bay’s owners to identify themselves.

The Pirate Bay added that any money it might be awarded by the courts would go towards a new computer for a nine-year-old Finnish girl whose Winnie the Pooh laptop was confiscated following a CIAPC-instigated police raid.

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Hackers exploiting sandbox-bypass bug

Adobe on Saturday said it would release an emergency patch for two Reader zero-day vulnerabilities this week.

Hackers have already been exploiting the bugs using rigged PDF documents sent as email attachments.

“Adobe plans to make available updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat … during the week of February 18, 2013,” the company said in its security incident response team’s blog Saturday.

An associated security advisory, first issued last Wednesday, has also been updated to reflect the impending updates to Reader for Windows, OS X and Linux.

News of the Adobe Reader vulnerabilities surfaced Feb. 13 when researchers from security vendor FireEye reported that attackers were exploiting the bugs, which exist in the latest versions of the popular PDF-viewing software.

Adobe confirmed the vulnerabilities later that same day, acknowledging that attacks were sidestepping the anti-exploit “sandbox” defense baked into Reader 10 and Reader 11.

Some security experts concluded that the attacks are on the same level as the cyber-espionage Duqu threat of 2011, and claimed that that hints at a sophisticated operation beyond the skills of most hacker gangs.

Adobe will patch two vulnerabilities in its update this week; the pair have been used in combination by hackers to circumvent the sandbox and execute other malicious code.

The exploits now in circulation can break out of the Protected Mode sandbox — the first documented bypass of Adobe’s technology — but will be stymied if Protected View is enabled in Reader 11.

But as several security experts have pointed out, Protected View is not turned on by default in Reader 11.

Traditionally, Adobe has played it conservative with security features, either leaving them off by default or declining to immediately roll them out to users. It took the latter path in 2010 with Reader 10’s Protected Mode.

On Sunday, Adobe explained why it didn’t turn on Reader 11’s Protected View, essentially saying it opted to favor businesses — which rely on more advanced features of Reader and its for-a-fee Acrobat cousin — over consumers, who typically use the software only to view PDFs.

“We weighed the risk/benefit to customers with the impact on customers and their existing workflows,” said Adobe spokeswoman Heather Edell in an email reply to questions. “Adobe Reader Protected View will allow only one single function, which is to view a PDF document. Turning Adobe Reader Protected View on by default would break existing workflows customers rely on and result in unexpected impact on a very significant number of users.”

Edell did say that Protected View may be toggled on by default in the future. She did not commit to a timetable, however.

Windows users can turn on Protected View by opening Reader 11, selecting “Preferences” from the Edit menu, clicking the “Security (Enhanced)” item in the column on the left, then near the top of the ensuing dialog clicking “Files from potentially unsafe locations” or “All files” under the “Protected View” heading.

But customers running OS X are out of luck: Reader for Apple’s operating system lacks any sandboxing. Until Adobe patches Reader, Mac owners can protect themselves by viewing PDFs in OS X’s Preview application rather than Adobe Reader.

To make this change, users can right-click on any PDF document, select “Get Info” from the pop-up menu, choose “Preview” in the “Open with” field, and finally, click the “Change All” button.

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Supplies still tight as company tells consumers to expect 2-to-3-week shipping delay

Microsoft on Friday reopened online sales for the 128GB Surface Pro after nearly a week of stock outages, telling buyers that the tablets would ship in two to three weeks.

According to Microsoft’s e-store, a 128GB Surface Pro ordered on Saturday, Feb. 15 will ship March 1.

But Microsoft also hinted that supplies would remain tight, and to expert future shortages. “Once inventory is depleted, the system will show as ‘out of stock’ until new inventory is available to ship,” the company said in a blog post.

The $999 128GB Surface Pro went on sale on Feb 9, and quickly sold out.

Customers were furious. Frustrated at their fruitless search for the tablet last weekend, they took Microsoft to task both for not having enough units, but also for refusing to accept orders on its website for future shipping.

Microsoft addressed the latter with the change to its online store Friday.

The shortages, which will apparently last at least three weeks in total, have led some to say Microsoft badly fumbled the launch. One analyst didn’t agree.

“They’re going to lose very few sales, and they look very popular,” said Ezra Gottheil of Technology Business Research in an email. “Later would have been worse, with the “V” word being bruited about.” The word Gottheil was referring to was “vaporware.”

Shortages are not unusual in technology product launches. Apple, for example, often debuts a new product with limited supplies, which quickly run out. It may take weeks or even months for Apple to match supply with demand.

Last year, Apple’s iPad Mini was on a two-week shipping delay within days of its launch. Months later, that delay has shrunk to one to three days, but still exists.

Gottheil cast the 128GB Surface Pro shortage as similar. “It’s the norm with major new products. It’s just a judgment call on how large you want your inventory to be the day you start sales,” he said.

And there were other factors at work. “Two things: Microsoft lacked time and Microsoft lacked parts, probably touchscreens,” said Gottheil. “Microsoft wanted this thing on the market as soon as possible, and that ruled out stockpiling. [And] we know that touchscreens are a problem for the industry, probably even for Apple.”

On Friday, Microsoft also gave customers advice on how to score a 128GB Surface Pro through its U.S. retail partners, Best Buy and Staples, saying that the former will also take reservations for future deliveries.

The $899 64GB Surface Pro has remained available throughout the outage of its larger and more expensive sibling. Although Microsoft has been mum about sales — on Friday, it said only that it was “excited by the demand” — most have interpreted the availability of the 64GB configuration as confirmation that customers believe the storage capacity too limited for what Microsoft has argued can be a PC notebook replacement.

Gottheil agreed, saying that Microsoft should think about dropping the 64GB model, but with a caveat. “Unless there are places where taxes are included in [corporate] purchase rules,” he said.

Microsoft sells the Surface Pro through its online store, at its approximately 70 retail outlets in the U.S. and Canada, and through its retail partners. It has yet to announce when the Surface Pro will go on sale outside of North America.

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Ranking of 50 most popular Android apps includes six apps Verizon found to be battery sappers

Verizon Wireless recently began listing “High Risk Android Apps” on its Web site and now alerts customers to 13 apps that prevent a smartphone or tablet from going into sleep mode, causing heavy battery and data usage.

“This page lists apps that may be especially risky for you to use at this time,” Verizon said in the post. The company noted that it is working with developers to fix the problems.

The high risk apps “might have serious negative effects on your device” through loss of functionality, unexpected high data or battery usage and security exposure, Verizon explained.

Six of the 13 high risk apps are also on the January’s list of Top 50 most popular Android apps that Verizon posts on another Web page along with a five-point system for judging security, battery consumption and data usage.

The six apps on both Verizon lists are games, mostly racing games.

They are: Asphalt 7: Heat, a paid racing game by Gameloft; Draw Something, a paid game by OMGPOP; Fruit Ninja Free, a free game by Halfbrick Studios; Grand Theft Auto III, a paid game by Rock Start Games; Hill Climb Racing, a free game by Fingersoft; Need for Speed: Most Wanted, a paid game by Rovio Mobile Ltd.; and Wreck It Ralph, a paid game by Disney.

The worst offender of the 13 on the high risk list is Need for Speed: Most Wanted, from Rovio Mobile Ltd., which Verizon says will drain a device battery about 4.5 times faster than normal if left untouched, Verizon noted.

Need for Speed also appears on the most popular Android apps list where it gets a 4.5 out of 5 rating from Verizon. It gets high marks for security and data usage, but the lowest rating of 1 for battery consumption.

Several other apps on the most popular list scored lower than Need for Speed.

The worst rating of the 50 most popular apps was a 2.3 rating for Hill Climb Racing, a free racing game from Fingersoft. The lowest rating for a paid app was a 2.6 for Asphalt 7: Heat, a game by Gameloft.

On Verizon’s Web site, users can click on the most popular ratings to get more details. In the case of Hill Climb Racing, Verizon said the game deserved a 5 rating for security, but only a 1 each for battery consumption and data usage.

On a separate Web page, Verizon details how it derives the ratings for security, battery consumption and data usage.

A 1 rating for data usage means that the app uses more than 100 MB over a Verizon test period. Verizon doesn’t define how long the test lasted.

Verizon does say that a 1 rating means the app will use more than 10% of a 1 GB data plan in a month if running in the background.

For battery life, a 1 means that the app’s drain on the battery exceeds more than 20mA, or more than two hours of lost battery life with the app running the background.

A 1 rating for security describes a “critical security threat to user. Harmful impact to device performance and content. App will cause irreparable damage to the device.”

Verizon has no app reviews or high risk apps listing for any other app store, including App Store apps that run on iPhone or iPad.

Verizon is evaluating whether it will expand app reviews and high risk apps listings to App Store or other application storefronts, but started with Android partly because Verizon sells so many Android devices, said David Samberg, a Verizon spokesman.

Samberg authored a description of Verizon’s reviews on a blog post last week, although the reviews have been underway since last fall.

None of the high risk apps are blocked for Verizon customers, Samberg said, but users are being educated to make their own decisions. “We’re not trying to embarrass anybody,” he said. “We don’t want to block apps; we’re saying download, but be aware.”

Verizon also posts a listing of the Top 20 must-have apps for for both Google and Apple apps. The list is updated four times a year and currently includes AppLuvr to help people pick apps among the more than 700,000 app on each of the stores.

Productivity apps like Dropbox, Evernote and Smart Business Forms are included on the current Top 20 list.

The value of a 20 must-have apps list is that “customers don’t know where to start when they have a new phone,” Samberg said. “There are so many apps out there.”

Many apps like Facebook are “extremely obvious” and therefore not included, but many others are not. All 20 of the must-have apps have received a rating of 4 stars or above, he said.

Reaction to Verizon’s apps evalutions has been positive, he said. “People appreciate it,” he said.

And so far, developers haven’t objected to the high risk Android apps listings either, he said.

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Triple-level cell NAND chip 25% smaller than previous NAND chip

Micron Technology today introduced the industry’s densest 128Gbit NAND flash memory device utilizing its 20-nanometer (nm) process technology and packing three bits of data per cell into the chip.

Three-bit flash technology is referred to as triple-level-cell (TLC), a highly compact storage medium compared with far more common, two-bit, multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash. The most expensive, highest performance and longest lasting NAND flash is single-level cell (SLC) flash.

Micron’s new chip measures 146mm square, and it is more than 25% smaller than the same capacity of Micron’s 20nm multi-level-cell (MLC) NAND device. The 128Gb TLC device is targeted at the low-cost removable storage market (flash cards and USB drives), which is projected to consume 35% of total NAND gigabytes in calendar 2013, according to research firms.

Micron is now sampling the 128Gb TLC NAND device with select customers; it will be in production in second quarter of calendar 2013.

“This is the industry’s smallest, highest-capacity NAND flash memory device, empowering a new class of consumer storage applications,” said Glen Hawk, vice president of Micron’s NAND Solutions Group.

Micron is presenting a paper on the 128Gbit TLC NAND device at the upcoming International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) on Feb. 19 in San Francisco.

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The rise of near-field communications (NFC) has been part of the discussion in the mobile industry for years.

Unfortunately, the technology hasn’t generated much more than discussion to this point.

So far, all who have predicted the ubiquity of the point-to-point communications technology have been wrong. Executives at major tech companies – Apple and eBay, for example – have scoffed at the idea of NFC as an everyday tool, and consumers in general still have no idea what it is.

Regardless, the technology provides ample opportunity for businesses, and is still expected to make a slow climb to relevance over the next few years. With separate factors helping to drive growth of the technology into new markets, it’s time to consider how NFC can help in the enterprise.

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