During these days a new ordinary plenary meeting of Smart Urban Spaces project is being celebrated. The meeting takes place at Bilbao in the ESI Tecnalia premises, situated inside the Zamudio Technological Park.

During the 6th of October the project and work packages leaders of SUS project are passing the 2nd annual ITEA review at Gemalto promises in Paris.

NFC World Congress is the world's first truly international exhibition and conference dedicated to Near Field Communications business. Smart Urban Spaces project will participate with a booth and a dedicated workshop during all the congress duration.

The handset maker has picked NXP to supply it with embedded secure elements and NFC controllers to go into its Android-based Xperia smartphones.

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Here's an interesting idea from a Chinese company called Netcom (not to be confused with the Norwegian operator): adding NFC capability to existing phones via microSD. (By Richard Lai)