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INSIDE Contactless wins GSMA Innovation Award

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

INSIDE Contactless’ MicroRead was selected as the winner of the GSM Association (GSMA) Mobile Innovation Global Award 2008 for Most Innovative Device-Centric Technology.The company’s MicroRead chip has been adopted by several handset manufacturers across the globe.

The NFC chip is a key component of the GSMA’s Pay-Buy-Mobile initiative, a program that provides a single approach to enabling contactless payments using mobile phones. Mobile operators in Australia, France, Ireland, Korea, Malaysia, Norway, The Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Turkey, and the U.S. have implemented the MicroRead chip in handsets used in the Pay-Buy-Mobile program. [end] 

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