WAKEFIELD, Mass.-The Near Field Communications Forum, an industry association launched last year to promote NFC technology, announced 20 new additions to its organization.
New sponsor members are MasterCard International, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Microsoft Corp., Motorola Inc., NEC, Samsung, Texas Instruments and Visa International. Each company receives a seat on the forum’s board of directors.
Other new members include 3ALogics Inc., Cetecom Spain, Gemplus, Giesecke & Devrient, Innovision Research & Technology plc, JCB Co. Ltd., LG Electronics, Logitech, MeT Ltd., Mobey Forum, Skidata AG and Smart System Technologies Inc.
Nokia Corp., Royal Philips Electronics and Sony Corp. were the group’s founding members.
The group also announced it has set up working groups and identified areas of technology for specification. The forum will hold an informational session at CTIA Wireless 2005 in New Orleans.
