Re: [Muscle] NFC - A killer technology

2004-09-15 Thread Anders Rundgren
Welson, I would actually be more interested to see how Muscle could address this potentially very useful technology. Personally I don't mind _some_ flaming but I believe quite a few others do. I am afraid that Scott and I could go on 4-ever if not stopped in time... Anders - Original Messag

Re: [Muscle] NFC - A killer technology

2004-09-15 Thread Welson R. Jacometti
Hello guys, I used to love Bitnet flames. Please let's start one here!!! Welson Anders Rundgren wrote: Scott, I don't get this. I must be dumb :-) Is ISO 14443 a proprietary "twonkie"? Exactly how do YOU suggest that new HW technology should be established? A bunch of happy guys with soldering ir

Re: [Muscle] NFC - A killer technology

2004-09-15 Thread Anders Rundgren
Scott, I don't get this. I must be dumb :-) Is ISO 14443 a proprietary "twonkie"? Exactly how do YOU suggest that new HW technology should be established? A bunch of happy guys with soldering irons and a few thousands bucks get togther and make it in open? To yawn at Phillips, Samsung and Nok

RE: [Muscle] NFC - A killer technology

2004-09-15 Thread Scott Guthery
Yep, just like BlueTooth, Zigbee, X-10, HomeRF and blah, blah, blah. Given any k companies from a set of N in an industry, they will form a forum to declare their proprietary twonkies to be the industry standard. Yawn. Cheers, Scott -Original Message- From: Anders Rundgren [mailto:[EMAI

[Muscle] NFC - A killer technology

2004-09-15 Thread Anders Rundgren
http://www.nfc-forum.org Finally, a technology that is produced by major companies that really solves not just a single problem but a huge number of completely different problems, ranging from WLAN access, calendar synchronization, to card reader "emulation". Only a universal technology like this