NFC is still a geek thing, when it should definitely be triggering the imagination of thousands service companies and other small businesses: hotels, real estate companies, airlines, classified ads companies, rental companies, social networks, etc. It is a user thing! Not a geek thing! It is technology made transparent, peer-to-peer, a link between the Internet [...]

Nokia has extended its push into Internet services with the acquisition of small Berlin-based social networking start-up Plazes. Plazes, with a headcount of 13, provides location-aware services that people can use to plan, record and share their social activities. Nokia will integrate this service into its own handsets. The Finnish vendor did not disclose financial [...]