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Mobile Distillery, Stollmann E&V partner on NFC

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Mobile Distillery, a French provider of an automatic porting platform and Hamburg, Germany-based Stollmann E&V, a developer of hardware and software for the communications technology sector, are looking at making it easier to implement the same consumer applications across different NFC platforms.

“During conversations at previous NFC events we realized that we were both working on a common goal but at different levels of the software architecture. Both of us are working to ease the use of NFC technology by smoothing out the difference in hardware or software implementations,” said a Mobile Distillery spokesperson.

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