Even if the NFC standard is young (developed in 2004), I have
been asked to write this book for several years now, due to the
pioneering role played in France (and in Europe) by our Computer
Science Master’s degree MBDS (www.mbds-fr.org) at the University
of Nice – Sophia-Antipolis around the prototyping of innovative...
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